TY  - BOOK
AU  - Joris Gijsenbergh
AU  - Wim De Jong
AU  - Saskia Hollander
AU  - Tim Houwen
PY  - 2012
CY  - Bruxelles, Belgium
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 1376-0920
SN  - 9783035261400
TI  - Creative Crises of Democracy
DO  - 10.3726/978-3-0352-6140-0
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1043630
N2  - The «crisis of democracy» is as old as democracy itself. From the first democracy in Athens up until western democracy in the twenty-first century, criticism and complaints about the deficiencies of democracy have recurred. Pessimistic accounts typically focus on the destructive potential of these crises.  This collection of essays takes an alternative approach and draws attention to the creativity inherent in these «crises of democracy» – the potential for renewal and adaptation.  In the volume, historians, philosophers and political scientists from the Netherlands, Great Britain, Sweden and Austria tackle the three key questions prompted by this perspective: what moments of creativity can be discerned during crises of democracy in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries; how does democracy adapt during moments of crisis; and how does the notion of a democratic crisis affect political reality and vice versa?
KW  - Fiction, Caribbean Area, interkulturelle Hermeneutik, Klischee, Stereotypen, criticism, creativity, political reality, europäisch-afrikanische Migration, African Diaspora
LA  - English
ER  -