A01=Sofia Anceau Helander
Author_Sofia Anceau Helander
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contemporary political theory
critical theory
Democratic theory
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political theory
social movement studies
Product details
- ISBN 9781399522168
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 01 Feb 2024
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Today, alienation manifests itself primarily as precarisation and deprofessionalisation. When the subject's work security or professional autonomy is undermined, relations not only to others, but also to one's self can become inhibited. This book shows that while alienation poses serious problems to modern democracies, it is a form of social suffering that is particularly difficult for democratic theory preoccupied by the political to address. The book highlights that not even radical democracy, which emphasises the importance of social resistance, can include the alienated. The author shows this is not merely due to the historical emergence of radical democracy and its turn away from traditional socialism, but also to a deeper problem in the theory itself. Helander argues that in order to address alienation, radical democracy as both normative theory and political strategy, must be reformulated starting with its deep assumptions about the subject.
Sofia Anceau Helander is Lecturer and Researcher in the Department of Government at Uppsala University, specialising in political theory and social movement studies. She has previously studied social movements in Sweden and India, publishing in Journal of Developing Societies, and Revista Internacional de Sociología. This is her first monograph.
