| Description |
1 online resource (223 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction: democracy and public space -- theory and practice; Part I Theorising democracy as a spatial practice; 1 Ancient Greece and the tri-partite model of democracy; 2 From politics to the political: democracy as a spatial practice; 3 Dis-locations of democracy: democracy and public space; 4 The production of democratic public space; Part II Participatory spatial practices: architectural, feminist and participatory democracy; 5 From antagonism to agonism on Regent's Park Estate |
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6 Feminists taking the empty place: the construction of political identity7 Social forums and the spaces of participatory democracy; Conclusion: the empty place; Appendix A: World Charter for the Right to the City; Appendix B: World Social Forum -- Charter of Principles; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
In The Empty Place: Democracy and Public Space Teresa Hoskyns explores the relationship of public space to democracy by relating different theories of democracy in political philosophy to spatial theory and spatial and political practice. Establishing the theoretical basis for the study of public space, Hoskyns examines the rise of representative democracy and investigates contemporary theories for the future of democracy, focusing on the Chantal Mouffe's agonistic model and the civil society model of Jürgen Habermas. She argues that these models of participatory democracy |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317916222 |
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1317916220 |
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