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oapen-20.500.12657-587852022-10-15T03:21:15Z Democracy and Revolutionary Politics Chandhoke, Neera Social and political philosophy Marxism and Communism Political structures: democracy bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JP Politics & government::JPA Political science & theory bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HP Philosophy::HPS Social & political philosophy This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Democracy and political violence can hardly be considered conceptual siblings, at least at first sight. Democracy allows people to route their aspirations, demands, and expectations of the state through peaceful methods; violence works outside these prescribed and institutionalized channels in public spaces, in the streets, in the forests and in inhospitable terrains. But can committed democrats afford to ignore the fact that violence has become a routine way of doing politics in countries such as India? By exploring the concept of political violence from the perspective of critical political theory, Neera Chandhoke investigates its nature, justification and contradictions. She uses the case study of Maoist revolutionaries in India to globalize and relocate the debate alongside questions of social injustice, exploitation, oppression and imperfect democracies. As such, this is an important and much-needed contribution to the dialogue surrounding revolutionary violence. 2022-10-14T14:53:46Z 2022-10-14T14:53:46Z 2015 book ONIX_20221014_9781474224031_116 9781474224031 9781474224024 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/58785 eng Theory for a Global Age Series application/pdf n/a 9781474224024.pdf Bloomsbury Academic Bloomsbury Academic 10.5040/9781474224048 10.5040/9781474224048 066d8288-86e4-4745-ad2c-4fa54a6b9b7b 9781474224031 9781474224024 Bloomsbury Academic 160 London open access
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This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Democracy and political violence can hardly be considered conceptual siblings, at least at first sight. Democracy allows people to route their aspirations, demands, and expectations of the state through peaceful methods; violence works outside these prescribed and institutionalized channels in public spaces, in the streets, in the forests and in inhospitable terrains. But can committed democrats afford to ignore the fact that violence has become a routine way of doing politics in countries such as India? By exploring the concept of political violence from the perspective of critical political theory, Neera Chandhoke investigates its nature, justification and contradictions. She uses the case study of Maoist revolutionaries in India to globalize and relocate the debate alongside questions of social injustice, exploitation, oppression and imperfect democracies. As such, this is an important and much-needed contribution to the dialogue surrounding revolutionary violence.
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