Gray From the Streets to the State

Changing the World by Taking Power
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-4384-7030-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 292 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series in New Political Science

Blends academic and activist perspectives to explore recent emancipatory struggles to win and transform state power.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gray, Paul Christopher

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Demokratie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Part I: Changing the World. and Ourselves: The Radical Left and the Problems of State Power

1. From the Streets to the State: A Critical Introduction
Paul Christopher Gray

2. D emocratizing the Party and the State: Transcending the Limits of the Left
Leo Panitch

Part II: Confronting Leviathan: Parties, Social Movements, and the Capitalist State

3. Building “Parties of a New Type”: A Comparative Analysis of New Radical Left Parties in Western Europe
Xavier Lafrance and Catarina Príncipe

4. Watching Over the Right to Turn Left: The Limits of State Autonomy in Pink Tide Venezuela and Ecuador
Thomas Chiasson-LeBel

5. Casting Shadows: Chokwe Lumumba and the Struggle for Racial Justice and Economic Democracy in Jackson, Mississippi
Kali Akuno

6. T he Radical Democracy of the People’s Democratic Party: Transforming the Turkish State
Erdem Yörük

7. T oward a Radical Politics of Rights: Lessons about Legal Leveraging and Its Limitations
Michael McCann and George I. Lovell

Part III: In, against, and beyond the Behemoth: Projects for “Democratic Administration”

8. Market Failures, Failing States: Challenges for Democratization Projects
Greg Albo

9. Forging a “Social Knowledge Economy”: Transformative Collaborations between Radical Left
Governments, State Workers, and Solidarity Economies
Hilary Wainwright

10. Femocratic Administration and the Politics of Transformation
Tammy Findlay

11. Beyond Service, beyond Coercion? Prisoner Co-ops and the Path to Democratic Administration
Greg McElligott

Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Paul Christopher Gray teaches political science and labor studies at Brock University, Canada.