Direct Democracy: Collective Power, the Swarm, and the Literatures of the Americas

by Scott Henkel

Book Overview

Winner of a 2018 C. L. R. James Award for a Published Book for Academic or General Audiences from the Working-Class Studies Association

Beginning with the Haitian Revolution, Scott Henkel lays out a literary history of direct democracy in the Americas. Much research considers direct democracy as a form of organization fit for worker cooperatives or political movements. Henkel reinterprets it as a type of collective power, based on the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496823419
• ISBN13: 9781496823410
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"