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3. ‘Dignity’ as Glocal Civic Virtue: Redefining Democracy Through Cosmopolitics in the Era of Neoliberal Governmentality

Authors : Fotini Tsibiridou, Michalis Bartsidis

Published in: Arab Revolutions and Beyond

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US

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Abstract

We will deal with ‘dignity’ as a priority within the conceptual categories of civic virtue in order to redefine democracy and social activism in the era of neoliberal governmentality. In order to understand the interaction of social values with neoliberal governmentality on both the political and economic levels we agree that we need to pay attention to people’s voices and priorities coming from ‘below’. This ‘from below’ perspective since the crisis of neoliberalism, or as a product of it, leads us to focus on social movements and people’s redraw of their consent to power and elites, in local context but with global content.

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Metadata
Title
‘Dignity’ as Glocal Civic Virtue: Redefining Democracy Through Cosmopolitics in the Era of Neoliberal Governmentality
Authors
Fotini Tsibiridou
Michalis Bartsidis
Copyright Year
2016
Book
Arab Revolutions and Beyond

Print ISBN: 978-1-137-59239-2

Electronic ISBN: 978-1-137-59150-0

Copyright Year: 2016

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59150-0_3