The Priority of Injustice: Locating Democracy in Critical Theory (Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation)

This original and ambitious work looks anew at a series of intellectual debates about the meaning of democracy. Clive Barnett engages with key thinkers in various traditions of democratic theory and demonstrates the importance of a geographical imagination in interpreting contemporary political change.
Debates about radical democracy, Barnett argues, have become trapped around a set of oppositions between deliberative and agonistic theories―contrasting thinkers who promote the possibility of rational agreement and those who seek to unmask the role of power or violence or difference in shaping human affairs. While these debates are often framed in terms of consensus versus contestation, Barnett unpacks the assumptions about space and time that underlie different understandings of the sources of political conflict and shows how these differences reflect deeper philosophical commitments to theories of creative action or revived ontologies of “the political.” Rather than developing ideal theories of democracy or models of proper politics, he argues that attention should turn toward the practices of claims-making through which political movements express experiences of injustice and make demands for recognition, redress, and re pair. By rethinking the spatial grammar of discussions of public space, democratic inclusion, and globalization, Barnett develops a conceptual framework for analyzing the crucial roles played by geographical processes in generating and processing contentious politics.

Politics & Social Sciences

Barnett, Clive

Philosophy

University of Georgia Press

This original and ambitious work looks anew at a series of intellectual debates about the meaning of democracy. Clive Barnett engages with key thinkers in various traditions of democratic theory and demonstrates the importance of a geographical imagination in interpreting contemporary political change. Debates about radical democracy, Barnett argues, have become trapped around a set of oppositions between deliberative and agonistic theories―contrasting thinkers who promote the possibility of rational agreement and those who seek to unmask the role of power or violence or difference in shaping human affairs. While these debates are often framed in terms of consensus versus contestation, Barnett unpacks the assumptions about space and time that underlie different understandings of the sources of political conflict and shows how these differences reflect deeper philosophical commitments to theories of creative action or revived ontologies of “the political.” Rather than developing ideal theories of democracy or models of proper politics, he argues that attention should turn toward the practices of claims-making through which political movements express experiences of injustice and make demands for recognition, redress, and re pair. By rethinking the spatial grammar of discussions of public space, democratic inclusion, and globalization, Barnett develops a conceptual framework for analyzing the crucial roles played by geographical processes in generating and processing contentious politics.

Globalizing Responsibility: The Political Rationalities of Ethical Consumption

Globalizing Responsibility: The Political Rationalities of Ethical Consumption presents an innovative reinterpretation of the forces that have shaped the remarkable growth of ethical consumption. 
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<li>Develops a theoretically informed new approach to shape our understanding of the pragmatic nature of ethical action in consumption processes</li> <li>Provides empirical research on everyday consumers, social networks, and campaigns</li> <li>Fills a gap in research on the topic with its distinctive focus on fair trade consumption</li> <li>Locates ethical consumption within a range of social theoretical debates -on neoliberalism, governmentality, and globalisation</li> <li>Challenges the moralism of much of the analysis of ethical consumption, which sees it as a retreat from proper citizenly politics and an expression of individualised consumerism</li> </ul>

Business & Money

Cloke, Paul

Clarke, Nick

Malpass, Alice

Business Culture

Wiley/Blackwell

Globalizing Responsibility: The Political Rationalities of Ethical Consumption presents an innovative reinterpretation of the forces that have shaped the remarkable growth of ethical consumption. <ul>
<li>Develops a theoretically informed new approach to shape our understanding of the pragmatic nature of ethical action in consumption processes</li> <li>Provides empirical research on everyday consumers, social networks, and campaigns</li> <li>Fills a gap in research on the topic with its distinctive focus on fair trade consumption</li> <li>Locates ethical consumption within a range of social theoretical debates -on neoliberalism, governmentality, and globalisation</li> <li>Challenges the moralism of much of the analysis of ethical consumption, which sees it as a retreat from proper citizenly politics and an expression of individualised consumerism</li> </ul>

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The Priority of Injustice: Locating Democracy in Critical Theory (Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation)

The Priority of Injustice: Locating Democracy in Critical Theory (Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation)

Globalizing Responsibility: The Political Rationalities of Ethical Consumption

Globalizing Responsibility: The Political Rationalities of Ethical Consumption