Amanda Machin

Where are all the bodies? Political institutions are populated by living, breathing human beings, who eat, sleep, gesture, desire and suffer. And yet participants of the political realm are often depicted as disembodied minds, detached and distinct from their corporeal existence. Amanda Machin considers six embodied modes of democratic politics: representation, deliberation, disagreement, protest, occupation and counsel. Drawing on diverse thinkers such as Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Michael Polanyi, Simone de Beauvoir, Donna Haraway and Judith Butler, she offers an absorbing illustration of the ways human bodies are not only the disciplined objects of politics, but the generative subjects of democracy.

Modes of Embodied Politics

Bodies of Democracy

Climate change is the greatest challenge of the age, and yet fierce disagreement still exists over the best way to tackle the problem or, indeed, whether it should be tackled at all. In this original book, Amanda Machin draws on radical democratic theory to show that such disagreement does not have to hinder collective action; rather, democratic differences are necessary if we are to have any hope of acting against climate change. This is an important read for researchers, students, policy makers and anyone concerned about the current (lack of) politics in climate change.

Radical Democracy and the Illusion of Consensus

Negotiating Climate Change

Nadine Meidert

In recent years, Europe has been buffeted by a series of contested crises that seemingly undermine and overwhelm its institutions and ideals: the economic shocks of 2008, the open disputes over migration, the political uncertainty generated by Brexit and the inroads made by various populist and nationalist parties into government.

Community in Crisis?

Political Identification in Europe

Nico Stehr

Das vorliegende Buch verdeutlicht die hochgradige Komplexität des Verhältnisses von Gesellschaft, Wissenschaft und Klima. Die Tatsache des Klimawandels erfordert eine multidisziplinäre Herangehensweise, die die Vernetzung der drei Systeme erfasst. Es gilt zu erkennen, dass einerseits das Klima soziale, politische und wirtschaftliche Interaktionen prägt, es andererseits jedoch selbst von sozialen Strukturen, technologischen Praktiken und Energiekulturen beeinflusst wird. Dies ist von besonderer Relevanz in einer Zeit, in der die Klimawissenschaften unter Druck stehen, und zwar sowohl von der breiten Öffentlichkeit als auch von den politischen Entscheidungsträgern. Nicht zuletzt deswegen warnen Nico Stehr und Amanda Machin, ausgehend von den Erkenntnissen verschiedener Disziplinen und anhand von zahlreichen Beispielen, vor einfachen Annahmen und Antworten.

Entwicklungen, Umbrüche, Herausforderungen

Gesellschaft und Klima

The contributions in this book highlight, contextualize and analyze different aspects of social inequality. What are the various cause and effects of inequality? How have these changed over recent decades? Which social policies might be best able to intervene? Written by authors from a variety of disciplines and geographical regions, these contributions provide a rich account of inequality within contemporary society. The role of the state, the media and the market in exacerbating and alleviating patterns of equality are all accessed alongside analysis of changing patterns of exclusion and hierarchy.

Amanda Machin

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