What Democracy Looks Like: A New Critical Realism for a Post-Seattle World

by Cecelia Tichi

Book Overview

The convergence of activists in Seattle during the World Trade Organization meetings captured the headlines in 1999. These demonstrations marked the first major expression on U.S. soil of worldwide opposition to inequality, privatization, and political and intellectual repression. This turning point in world politics coincided with an ongoing quandary in academia-particularly in the humanities where the so-called "death of theory" has left the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813537177
• ISBN13: 9780813537177
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.1" x 10.0"