Unbounded Publics Transgressive Public Spheres, Zapatismo, and Political Theory

by Gilman-opalsky, Richard

• ISBN13: 9780739124796
• ISBN10: 073912479X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-05-20
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

This book is about the public sphere and the various ways it has been theorized as a driving mechanism for social and political change. Public spheres are the places where people come together to actively engage in new ideas and arguments, where collective interests and a collective political will are formed, and where social movements and rebellions get their start. Conventionally, the public sphere has been understood nationally as a body made up of citizens who gather in particular places and times and who speak to the governments that claim to represent them. But increasingly, in light of debates about globalization, theorists are considering the political possibilities for transnational context. Unbounded Publics argues that there has been and can be a different kind of sphere, a transgressive public sphere one that exists in both contexts at once.

Author Biography

Richard Gilman-Opalsky is assistant professor of political philosophy at the University of Illinois.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
General Introduction	p. xi
Public Spheres And The National Framework	p. 1
Introduction to Part I	p. 3
Basic Concepts and Terms: Political Public Spheres and Communicative Power	p. 13
A Prefigured National Framework: Legitimation and the Public Sphere	p. 45
Habermas' Classical Theory in Light of Nonbourgeois Public Spheres	p. 67
Public Spheres And The Transnational Framework	p. 115
Introduction to Part II	p. 117
"Globalization": A New Topography for the Public Sphere?	p. 127
Transnational Cosmopolitan Public Spheres and a Turn Against the National Framework	p. 145
Beyond the National/Transnational Dichotomy: Moving Toward a Theory of Transgressive Public Spheres	p. 203
Transgressive Public Spheres	p. 225
Introduction to Part III	p. 227
A Different Kind of Public Sphere: The Zapatistas' Transgressive Public Sphere	p. 239
Indigenous Identity and the Recasting of Subject Positions	p. 273
The Case for Transgressive Public Spheres	p. 303
Conclusion	p. 333
Bibliography	p. 343
Index	p. 351
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