Political voice protest, democracy, and marginalised groups
"Political Voice examines the agency of marginalized people, emphasizing the processes and strategies through which different communities around the world articulate their political voices. By focusing on the political voices of marginalized groups, this timely book uncovers democratic expressi...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Oxford University Press
2024
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | "Political Voice examines the agency of marginalized people, emphasizing the processes and strategies through which different communities around the world articulate their political voices. By focusing on the political voices of marginalized groups, this timely book uncovers democratic expression and agency beyond the ballot box, examining how the articulation of political voice constitutes marginalized groups and democracy itself. Political Voice is based on the conviction that voice is necessary when people are routinely silenced and excluded. The book arrives at a crucial juncture in politics, as marginalized people around the globe rise up to challenge political regimes, institutions, embedded practices, attitudes, and laws which serve to stigmatize and exclude certain groups. The proliferation of protests around the world in the last ten years reveal how people are demanding to be heard and refusing to remain silent, and the relationship between social movements and democracy. Political Voice is theoretically generative as it presents, for the first time, an innovative conceptualization of political voice, one that moves beyond conventional democratic theory. To this end, it develops the concept of political voice around three elements: autonomy, representation, and constitution (ARC). ARC is then interrogated through two contemporary case studies examining the articulation of political voice of two persecuted and silenced groups: LGBTIQ/queer activism in India and Roma mobilization in Europe. This original and ambitious research draws on empirical research conducted in India and in Europe"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 199-212, Index |
| Beschreibung: | xii, 220 Seiten Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 9780197778258 978-0-19-777825-8 9780197778241 978-0-19-777824-1 |