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Babel Unbound: Rage, Reason and Rethinking Public Life

Babel Unbound: Rage, Reason and Rethinking Public Life

Cowling, Lesley
Hamilton, Carolyn

Hardcover

General Political ScienceGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1776145933
ISBN13: 9781776145935
Publisher: Wits Univ Pr
Published: May 15 2020
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.31
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

In this timely, original and sophisticated collection, writers from the Global South demonstrate that forms of publicness are multiple, mobile and varied.

The notion that societies mediate issues through certain kinds of engagement is at the heart of imaginings of democracy and often centers on the ideal of the public sphere. But this imagined foundation of how we live collectively appears to have suffered a dramatic collapse across the world, with many democracies apparently unable to solve problems through talk - or even to agree on who speaks, in what ways and where. In the 10 essays in this timely, original and sophisticated collection, writers from southern Africa combine theoretical analysis with the examination of historical cases and contemporary developments to demonstrate that forms of publicness are multiple, mobile and varied. They propose new concepts and methodologies to analyse how public engagements work in society.

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