Ella Baker and the challenge of black ruleContemporary Political Theory - Tập 19 - Trang 551-572 - 2020
Lester K. Spence
What is African American Politics? What form should it take? How does it conceptualize white supremacy? In In the Shadow of Du Bois, Robert Gooding-Williams uses the work of W. E. B. Du Bois and Fredrick Douglass to provide answers to these questions. While the choices of Douglass and Du Bois make a great deal of sense, they reproduce the tendency of confining political theory to literature – a mo...... hiện toàn bộ
The Problems with EvilContemporary Political Theory - Tập 7 - Trang 395-415 - 2008
Paul Formosa
The concept of evil has been an unpopular one in many recent Western political and ethical discourses. One way to justify this neglect is by pointing to the many problems with the concept of evil. The standard grievances brought against the very concept of evil include: that it has no proper place in secular political and ethical discourses; that it is a demonizing term of hatred that leads to vio...... hiện toàn bộ
Political theory in the square: Protest, representation and subjectificationContemporary Political Theory - Tập 12 - Trang 166-184 - 2012
Marina Prentoulis, Lasse Thomassen
What, if anything, do the ‘square’ protests and ‘occupy’ movements of 2011 bring to contemporary democratic theory? And how can we, as political theorists, analyse their discourse and do justice to it? We address these questions through an analysis of the Greek and Spanish protest movements of the spring and summer of 2011, the so-called aganaktismenoi and indignados. We trace the centrality of th...... hiện toàn bộ