Confrontational citizenship : reflections on hatred, rage, revolution, and revolt /

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Author / Creator:	Sokoloff, William W., author.
Imprint:	Albany : State University of New York Press, [2017]
Description:	xxiv, 234 pages ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	SUNY series in new political science SUNY series in new political science.
Subject:	Democracy -- Philosophy. Political sociology. Political participation -- Social aspects. Protest movements. Democracy -- Philosophy. Political participation -- Social aspects. Political sociology. Protest movements.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11369992

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ISBN:	9781438467818 1438467818
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	A growing number of people are enraged about the quality and direction of public life, despise politicians, and are desperate for real political change. How can the contemporary neoliberal global political order be challenged and rebuilt in an egalitarian and humanitarian manner? What type of political agency and new political institutions are needed for this? In order to answer these questions, Confrontational Citizenship draws on a broad base of perspectives to articulate the concept of confrontational citizenship. William W. Sokoloff defends extra-institutional and confrontational modes of political activity along with new ways of conceiving political institutions as a way to create political orders accountable to the people. In contrast to many forms of democratic theory, Sokoloff argues that confrontational modes of citizenship (e.g., protest) are good because they increase the accountability of a regime to the people, increase the legitimacy of regimes, lead to improvements in a political order, and serve as a means to vent frustration. The goal is to make the word citizen relevant and dangerous to the settled and closed practices that structure our political world and to provide a hopeful vision of what it means to be politically progressive today.
Other form:	Online version: Sokoloff, William W., author Confrontational citizenship Albany : State University of New York Press, [2017] 9781438467832

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction: Anger, Hatred, and Rage in Dark Times
Chapter 1. In Defense of Hatred
Chapter 2. Immanuel Kant on Thinking without the Constraint of Rules
Chapter 3. Frederick Douglass and the Politics of Rage
Chapter 4. W.E.B. Du Bois on Revolt as a Way of Life
Chapter 5. Hannah Arendt on Putting the Political Back into Politics
Chapter 6. Gloria Anzaldúa Singing the Song of Herself
Chapter 7. Paulo Freire and the Pedagogy of Revolt
Conclusion: The Right of Resistance
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Confrontational citizenship : reflections on hatred, rage, revolution, and revolt /

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