Year: 2007
Type: article
Abstract: The democratic project on a global scale that seemed so promising and was pursued with so much vigor in the final quarter of the twentieth century is now in serious disarray, if not in ruins.In that tumultuous period of seemingly unfettered capitalist globalization, numerous constitutions were written and ratified; elections, not always fair and free, were held all over the world, including most recently in the long suffering Congo; people marched and dictators were deposed; blueprints for institution/nation building were devised and circulated; scholars spoke and wrote excitedly about the public sphere and civil society; the human rights discourse became audible; the so-called new social movements, already in play since the 1960s, proliferated to encompass every conceivable project for social justice; the NGOs, the self-appointed tribunes of the weak and the dispossessed (including the mother earth), emerged as a tangible force.It seemed as if a new era of democracy, with "a million mutinies now," as
Source: Public Culture
Author: Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar
Language: English
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W567934660