Destroying Democracy / / edited by Vishwas Satgar, Michelle Williams.
Focuses on how decades of neoliberal capitalism have eroded the global democratic project and how, in the process, authoritarian politics are gaining ground. Scholars and activists from the political left focus on four country cases - India, Brazil, South Africa and the US - in which the COVID-19 pa...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Johannesburg : : Wits University Press,, 2021. |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xviii, 224 pages) |
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| 520 | |a Focuses on how decades of neoliberal capitalism have eroded the global democratic project and how, in the process, authoritarian politics are gaining ground. Scholars and activists from the political left focus on four country cases - India, Brazil, South Africa and the US - in which the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the pre-existing crisis. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Acknowledgements -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Preface: Neoliberal Capitalism in the Time of Covid-19: Destroying Democracy and Rising Authoritarianism - Michelle Williams and Vishwas Satgar -- Part I: Neoliberal Capitalism's Destruction of Democracy -- Chapter 1 The Crisis of Democracy: Neoliberal Capitalism, Authoritarianism and Reclaiming Democracy - Michelle Williams -- Chapter 2 The Rise of Eco-Fascism - Vishwas SatgarPart II: Neoliberal Capitalism Against Democracy Globally -- Chapter 3 Populism and Fascism: Lessons from the 1920s Ku Klux Klan - Linda Gordon -- Chapter 4 What Do 'Unruly' Right-Wing Authoritarian Nationalists Do When They Rule? The United States under Donald Trump - Ingar Solty -- Chapter 5 Brazilian Democracy Facing Authoritarian Neoliberalism - Alfredo Saad Filho -- Chapter 6 India's Trajectories of Change, 2004-2019 - Alf Gunvald NilsenPart III: Neoliberal Capitalism Against Democracy in South Africa -- Chapter 7 The Dialectic of Democracy: Capitalism, Populism and Working-Class Politics - Devan Pillay -- Chapter 8 Democracy and the Right to Know in South Africa's Capitalist Transition - Dale T McKinley -- Chapter 9 South Africa's Post-Apartheid Media and Democracy - Mandla J Radebe -- Chapter 10 Securitising Protests as Domestic Instability in South Africa - Jane Duncan -- Chapter 11 Prospects for a Left Renewal in South Africa - Gunnett Kaaf -- Conclusion - Vishwas Satgar -- Contributors -- Index. | |
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