Writing Democracy

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The Norwegian Constitution is the oldest functioning constitution in Europe. Its bicentenary in 2014 has inspired the analyses in this volume, where contributors focus on the Constitution as a text to explore new ways of analyzing democratic development. This volume examines the framing of the Norwegian Constitution, its transformations, and its interpretations during the last two centuries. The textual focus enables new understandings of the framers’ negotiations and decisions on a democratic micro level and opens new international and historical contexts to understanding the Norwegian Constitution. By synthesizing knowledge from different realms - law, social sciences, and the humanities – Writing Democracy provides a model for examining the distinct textual qualities of constitutional documents.

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Genre : Political Science
Author : Karen Gammelgaard
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Release : 2014-10-01
File : 280 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781782385059


Writing Democracy

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Writing Democracy: The Political Turn in and Beyond the Trump Era calls on the field of writing studies to take up a necessary agenda of social and economic change in its classrooms, its scholarship, and its communities to challenge the rise of neoliberalism and right-wing nationalism. Grown out of an extended national dialogue among public intellectuals, academic scholars, and writing teachers, collectively known as the Writing Democracy project, the book creates a strategic roadmap for how to reclaim the progressive and political possibilities of our field in response to the "twilight of neoliberalism" (Cox and Nilsen), ascendant right-wing nationalism at home (Trump) and abroad (Le Pen, Golden Dawn, UKIP), and hopeful radical uprisings (Black Lives Matter, Occupy Wall Street, Arab Spring). As such, the book tracks the emergence of a renewed left wing in rhetoric and activism post-2008, suggests how our work as teachers, scholars, and administrators can bring this new progressive framework into our institutions, and then moves outward to our role in activist campaigns that are reshaping public debate. Part history, part theory, this book will be an essential read for faculty, graduate students, and advanced undergraduate students in composition and rhetoric and related fields focused on progressive pedagogy, university-community partnerships, and politics.

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Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
Author : Shannon Carter
Publisher : Routledge
Release : 2019-08-14
File : 298 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780429889936


Constitution Writing Religion And Democracy

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This book explores the challenge of crafting a democratic constitution under conditions of deep disagreement over a state's religious or secular identity.

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Genre : Law
Author : Asli Ümmühan Bali
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release : 2017-02-02
File : 417 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781107070516


Democratic Text Book

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Genre : Campaign literature
Author : Democratic National Committee (U.S.)
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Release : 1856
File : 612 Pages
ISBN-13 : UIUC:30112087755143


Novels In The Time Of Democratic Writing

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In the decades after U.S. independence, American novelists carried on an argument that pitted direct democracy against the representative liberalism they attributed to their British counterparts. The result was an American novel distinguished by its use of narrative tropes that generated a social system resembling today's distributed network.

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Genre : Literary Criticism
Author : Nancy Armstrong
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Release : 2018-01-19
File : 264 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780812249767


The Democratic Text Book

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Author : Democratic Party (U.S.)
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Release : 1848
File : 84 Pages
ISBN-13 : NYPL:33433023463841


The History Of Democracy Has Yet To Be Written

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"This book made me laugh out loud and also gave me glimpses of an entire horizon of possibility I hadn't seen before."--Chris Hayes, host of MSNBC's All In with Chris Hayes End the filibuster. Abolish

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Genre : Law
Author : Thomas Geoghegan
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Release : 2021-10-05
File : 114 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781953368201


Political Facts A Text Book Of History The Democratic And Other Parties Men And Measures

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

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Genre : Fiction
Author : George Fitch
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Release : 2024-02-01
File : 266 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9783385331723


Democracy S Children

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How do American intellectuals try to achieve their political and social goals? By what means do they articulate their hopes for change? John McGowan seeks to identify the goals and strategies of contemporary humanistic intellectuals who strive to shape the politics and culture of their time. In a lively mix of personal reflection and shrewd analysis, McGowan visits the sites of intellectual activity (scholarly publications, professional conferences, the classroom, and the university) and considers the hazards of working within such institutional contexts to effect change outside the academy. Democracy's Children considers the historical trajectory that produced current intellectual practices. McGowan links the growing prestige of "culture" since 1800 to the growth of democracy and the obsession with modernity and explores how intellectuals became both custodians and creators of culture. Caught between fears of culture's irrelevance and dreams of its omnipotence, intellectuals pursue a cultural politics that aims for wide-ranging social transformations. For better or worse, McGowan says, the humanities are now tied to culture and to the university. The opportunities and frustrations attendant on this partnership resonate with the larger successes and failures of contemporary democratic societies. His purpose in this collection of essays is to illuminate the conditions under which intellectuals in a democracy work and at the same time to promote intellectual activities that further democratic ideals.

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Genre : Education
Author : John McGowan
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Release : 2018-03-15
File : 262 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781501720963


The Color Of Democracy In Women S Regional Writing

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An exciting addition to the ongoing debate about the place of regionalism in American literary history. American regionalism has become a contested subject in literary studies alongside the ubiquitous triad of race, class, and gender. The Color of Democracy in Women's Regional Writing enters into the heart of an ongoing debate in the field about the significance of regional fiction at the end of the 19th century. Jean Griffith presents the innovative view that regional writing provided Edith Wharton, Ellen Glasgow, and Willa Cather with the means to explore social transformation in a form of fiction already closely associated with women readers and writers. Griffith provides new readings of texts by these authors; she places them alongside the works of their contemporaries, including William Faulkner and Langston Hughes, to show regionalism's responses to the debate over who was capable of democratic participation and reading regionalism's changing mediations between natives and strangers as reflections of the changing face of democracy. This insightful work enriches the current debate about whether regionalism critiques hierarchies or participates in nationalist and racist agendas and will be of great interest to those invested in regional writing or the works of these significant authors.

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Genre : Literary Criticism
Author : Jean Carol Griffith
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Release : 2009-08-17
File : 231 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780817316617