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Democracy, Markets and the Commons
Towards a Reconciliation of Freedom and Ecology
The commons are a means to overcome economic, political, and ecological crises – while reconciling human freedom and ecological sustainability.
Segregation, Inequality, and Urban Development
Forced Evictions and Criminalisation Practices in Present-Day South Africa
This book unearths an institutionalized regime of inequality in urban development and city improvement projects in South Africa, which facilitate the enlargement of inequality, excluding the majority of society from the design-focused, creative, fashionable, and liveable cities.
Günter Leypoldt
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Manfred Berg
(eds.)
Authority and Trust in US Culture and Society
Interdisciplinary Approaches and Perspectives
This book explores recent and historical transformations of authority and trust in political institutions, urban spaces, and cultural life to explain their perceived loss of legitimacy in the United States.
Socializing Development
Transnational Social Movement Advocacy and the Human Rights Accountability of Multilateral Development Banks
Against the backdrop of global power shifts, this book reveals increasing challenges of social movements to push for human rights accountability of Multilateral Development Banks.
Democratic and Authoritarian Political Systems in 21st Century World Society
Vol. 1 – Differentiation, Inclusion, Responsiveness
Can modern political systems deal with functional differentiation? They must include individuals, produce valued outputs, know the complexity of society, and accept or deny the autonomy of other function-systems. Democratic and autocratic variants result from this.
European Regions
Perspectives, Trends and Developments in the 21st Century
On the decisive role of European regions in the EU's future: trendsetters on European integration in a turbulent EU?
Democratic Citizenship in Flux
Conceptions of Citizenship in the Light of Political and Social Fragmentation
This volume explores the impact of challenges like rising populism or social fragmentation on democratic citizenship.
Political Participation in the Digital Age
An Ethnographic Comparison Between Iceland and Germany
Software is politics! Ethnographic insight on how to get the most out of online participation – as citizens, politicians, and programmers.
Maik Fielitz
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Nick Thurston
(eds.)
Post-Digital Cultures of the Far Right
Online Actions and Offline Consequences in Europe and the US
An accessible survey of post-digital strategies used by far-right groups, offering expert analyses of how they work and how to counter them.
Mediated Bordering
Eurosur, the Refugee Boat, and the Construction of an External EU Border
The small refugee boat and the European Border Surveillance System, Eurosur, are not only opponents in the cat and mouse game along the EU border. They are also mediators to its very existence.