Democracy, States, and the Struggle for Social Justice Book

Permissions ix

Contributors xi

Introduction: Altered States Neil Smith 1

Part I Radical Theories of Democracy and Sovereignty 17

Introduction Omar Dahbour 19

1 Crude Wars Timothy Brennan Keya Ganguly 31

2 Sovereign Right and the Global Left Susan Buck-Morss 45

3 Envisioning Transnational Democracy: Cross-border Communities and Regional Human Rights Frameworks Carol C. Gould 63

4 Twilight of Sovereignty or the Emergence of Cosmopolitan Norms? Rethinking Citizenship in Volatile Times Seyla Benhabib 79

Part II New Spatial Scales of Democracy 99

Introduction Ashley Dawson 101

5 Activism and Radical Democracy in New Mexico's Nuclear Ecology: Scale and Participation in Citizen Action Jeffrey Bussolini 109

6 Cities as New Spaces for Citizenship Claims: Globalization, Urban Politics, and Civil Society in Brazil, Mexico, and South Africa in the 1990s Gianpaolo Baiocchi Sofia Checa 131

7 American Democracy: From Continental Empire to Pluralist Commonwealth Gar Alperovitz 153

8 The Common Good: Towards an Alternative Europe Susan George 171

Part III Rethinking Activism and the State 195

Introduction Heather Gautney 197

9 Is Another State Possible? Heather Gautney 205

10 Another Country: The Postcolonial State, Environmentality, and Landless People's Movements Ashley Dawson 235

11 Disarticulate the State! Maximizing Democracy in "New" Autonomous Movements in the Americas Michael Menser 251

12 Community Gardens, Convivial Spaces, and the Seeds of a Radical Democratic Counterpublic Benjamin Shepard 273

13 How Do We Get from Here to There? Frances Fox Piven 297

Conclusion: Conflict, Coexistence, and the Next Global AssemblageMichael Menser 305

Notes 317

Index 338