Springer, S.
APA
Springer, S. (2011). Public space as emancipation: Meditations on anarchism, radical democracy, neoliberalism and violence. Antipode, 43(2), 525–562. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8330.2010.00827.x
Keywords
Anarchism
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Civil Society
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Neoliberalism
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Public Space
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Radical Democracy
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Violence
Abstract
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Main finding
The author argues for a theory whereby radical democracy can potentially repeal the violence of archies by dispersing power over an entire social body. Utopian politics should be replaced with a perpetual democratic process that acknowledges agonism rather than treating politics as a latent energy found in all cities. Public space allows frustrated subaltern groups from below to materially locate their anger and is aimed at management-without-rule and contestation-without-suppression. The author suggests the need for a perpetual contestation of the alienating effects of neoliberalism and advocates a form of radical democracy allowing dissent and difference that goes towards co-constituted anarchism through seeking an agonistic public space.
Description of method used in the article
Theoretical inquiry into how an agnostic public space might become the basis of emancipation. Drew on relational, co-constitutive frameworks as critical in repealing archic power for a radical democratic ideal.
Verdict
Of practical use