Laura Grattan
Biographic Data
| ID | 5922983 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laura Grattan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laura |
| FAMILY NAME | Grattan |
| SIGNATURE | GRATTAN L |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Broadening the “Problem-Space” of Political Theory
Pineda's book is an original and imaginative reconstruction of activist strategy and political theory, upending the orthodox account of civil disobedience during the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. Against liberal and democratic theorists who domesticate civil disobedience in the United States, with the aim of legitimizing the nation's constitutional democracy as “nearly just,” or in need of reform rather than revolution, Pineda arg…
Pierre Bourdieu and Populism
A quick snapshot of populist politics in twenty-first century America reveals an off-beat cast: Christian fundamentalists, vigilante border patrollers, the Tea Party, Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, Barack Obama, broad-based community organizers, grassroots ecopopulists, Occupy Wall Street, the advertising duo of John Mellencamp and Chevrolet, and a supporting cast too long to credit. Populist politics has always attracted this cacophony of voices and s…
Rewriting Canonical Discourses
Rewriting Canonical Discourses: The Political Subject of Gender-Neutral Freedom Laura Grattan (bio) Nancy Hirschmann Gender, Class, and Freedom in Modern Political Theory. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. 352 pages. $24.95 (pbk). $69.50 (hc). ISBN13: 978-0-691-12989-1 If it seems increasingly difficult to get a purchase on freedom in today’s world, it is worth revisiting its canonical roots with Nancy Hirschmann’s Gender, Class, and F…
Pierre Bourdieu and Populism
A quick snapshot of populist politics in twenty-first century America reveals an off-beat cast: Christian fundamentalists, vigilante border patrollers, the Tea Party, Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, Barack Obama, broad-based community organizers, grassroots ecopopulists, Occupy Wall Street, the advertising duo of John Mellencamp and Chevrolet, and a supporting cast too long to credit. Populist politics has always attracted this cacophony of voices and s…
Rewriting Canonical Discourses
Rewriting Canonical Discourses: The Political Subject of Gender-Neutral Freedom Laura Grattan (bio) Nancy Hirschmann Gender, Class, and Freedom in Modern Political Theory. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. 352 pages. $24.95 (pbk). $69.50 (hc). ISBN13: 978-0-691-12989-1 If it seems increasingly difficult to get a purchase on freedom in today’s world, it is worth revisiting its canonical roots with Nancy Hirschmann’s Gender, Class, and F…
Pierre Bourdieu and Populism
A quick snapshot of populist politics in twenty-first century America reveals an off-beat cast: Christian fundamentalists, vigilante border patrollers, the Tea Party, Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, Barack Obama, broad-based community organizers, grassroots ecopopulists, Occupy Wall Street, the advertising duo of John Mellencamp and Chevrolet, and a supporting cast too long to credit. Populist politics has always attracted this cacophony of voices and s…
Broadening the “Problem-Space” of Political Theory
Pineda's book is an original and imaginative reconstruction of activist strategy and political theory, upending the orthodox account of civil disobedience during the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. Against liberal and democratic theorists who domesticate civil disobedience in the United States, with the aim of legitimizing the nation's constitutional democracy as “nearly just,” or in need of reform rather than revolution, Pineda arg…
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