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Democracy and Revolutionary Politics

Theory for a Global Age Series

By (author) Neera Chandhoke
Format: Hardback
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, London, United Kingdom
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 26th Feb 2015
Dimensions: w 140mm h 216mm d 13mm
Weight: 372g
ISBN-10: 1474224008
ISBN-13: 9781474224000
Barcode No: 9781474224000
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This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Democracy and political violence can hardly be considered conceptual siblings, at least at first sight. Democracy allows people to route their aspirations, demands, and expectations of the state through peaceful methods; violence works outside these prescribed and institutionalized channels in public spaces, in the streets, in the forests and in inhospitable terrains. But can committed democrats afford to ignore the fact that violence has become a routine way of doing politics in countries such as India? By exploring the concept of political violence from the perspective of critical political theory, Neera Chandhoke investigates its nature, justification and contradictions. She uses the case study of Maoist revolutionaries in India to globalize and relocate the debate alongside questions of social injustice, exploitation, oppression and imperfect democracies. As such, this is an important and much-needed contribution to the dialogue surrounding revolutionary violence.

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Through a sophisticated, robust and wide ranging analysis of democratic movements, Chandhoke urges us to rethink the debates on civil society, the state and violence in the global south. This is an important, thought-provoking and challenging book that will influence the thinking of all of us who are interested in questions of political and social justice. * Shirin M Rai, Professor of Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick, UK * Neera Chandhoke's Democracy and Revolutionary Politics provides a much-needed, careful and imaginative analysis of the ambivalent concept of revolutionary violence. Both with respect to its explanatory and its normative power, combining social context and general principles, it is an exemplary work - political theory at its best. * Rainer Forst, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany *