Tentative list of readings
Introductory session:
1. Public sphere, civil society: from a mechanism of societal regulation to a locus of construction of real utopias
- Habermas, Jürgen (1992): “Further Reflections on the Public Sphere”, in Calhoun, Craig (Ed.): Habermas and the Public Sphere, Cambridge/Mass., The MIT Press (pp. 421-461)
- Kaldor, Mary (2003): Global Civil Society, Cambridge, Polity Press (pp. 1-49).
- Wright, E. O. “Transforming Capitalism through Real Utopias.” American Sociological Review 78, no. 1 (2013): 1–25
Theoretical foundations:
2. Preconditions of the public sphere: Civilization, interdependence, (vulnerability)
- Elias, Norbert (1994): The Civilizing Process, Oxford, Blackwell (Conclusions, 445-465)
- Honneth, Axel (1995): The Struggle for Recognition, Cambridge, Polity Press (pp. 160-179)
- Ribeiro, Darcy and Gomes, Mercio (1996): “Ethnicity and Civilization”, Dialectical Anthropology 21: 217-238.
Optional readings:
- Beling, Adrian E (2016). “Límites y Potencialidades de La Teoría Del Reconocimiento Como Génesis de La Gramática Moral de La Sociedad Frente Al Cambio Climático Global.” In Pluralismo E Interculturalidad En América Latina En Tiempos de Globalización, edited by José Luis Luna Bravo, Adrian E. Beling, and Ana María Bonet de Viola, 271–93. Buenos Aires: Grama Ediciones. (English version forthcoming)
3. Subject & Object of the public sphere: Public Goods - Citizenship
- O'Byrne, Darren (2003): The Dimensions of Global Citizenship, London/Portland, Frank Class (pp. 1-26)
- Desai, Megnad (2003): "Public Goods: A Historical Perspective" in Kaul, Inge et.al. (Ed.): Providing Global Public Goods, New York, Oxford University Press (pp. 63-77)
- Avritzer, Leonardo (2002). Democracy and the Public Space in Latin America. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. Chapter 3: Democracy and the Latin American Tadition (pp.55-76) 4. Actors of the public sphere: Elites
- Media - Social Movements - Field, G. L., & Higley, J.: Elitism. London; Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1980 (pp. 18-47; 117-123)
- Melucci, Alberto (1989): Nomads of the Present, London, Hutchinson (pp. 17-37)
- Sparks, Collin (2005): “Media and the Global Public Sphere: An Evaluative Approach”, in Jong, W. de, Shaw, M. and Stammers, N. (Eds.): Global Activism, Global Media, London, Ann Arbor (pp. 34-49)
Problematization of theoretical foundations in the light of globalization and its crises
5. Transnationalisation - Global Civil Society
- Fraser, Nancy (2007): "Transnationalizing the Public Sphere. On the Legitimacy and Efficacy of Public Opinion in a Post-Westphalian World" in Theory, Culture and Society, Vol. 24(4), (pp. 7-30).
- Castells, Manuel (2008): “The New Public Sphere: Global Civil Society, Communication Networks, and Global Governance”. The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 616(1), (pp. 78–93)
6. Global Public Goods - Cosmopolitan Citizenship
- Gould, Carol (2008): “Reconceiving autonomy and universality as norms for transnational democracy”, in Langlois, A. and Soltan, K. (eds.): Global Democracy and its Difficulties, London, Routledge (pp. 160-181)
- Ong, Aihwa (2006): “Mutations in Citizenship”, Theory, Culture & Society, Vol. 23, Nr. 2-3 (pp. 499-505)
- The globality of global public goods. Case discussion: Ecuador’s Yasuni-ITT initiative. Inputs:
- Acosta, Alberto, Eduardo Gudynas, Esperanza Martínez, and Joseph H. Vogel, "Leaving the Oil in the Ground: A Political, Economic, and Ecological Initiative in the Ecuadorian Amazon," Americas Program Policy Report (Washington, DC: Center for International Policy, August 13, 2009)
- Ihttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/16/ecuador-approves-yasuni-amazon-oil-drilling
Optional readings:
- Vanhulst, Julien, and Adrian E. Beling (2014). “Buen Vivir: Emergent Discourse within or beyond Sustainable Development?” Ecological Economics 101: 54–63.
7. Democracy & sustainability or the sustainability of democracy
- Convivialist Manifesto. A declaration of interdependence (Global Dialogues 3), Duisburg 2014: Käte Hamburger Kolleg/Centre for Global Cooperation Research (KHK/GCR21).
- Blühdorn, Ingolfur (2014) “The sustainability of democracy On limits to growth, the post−democratic turn and reactionary democrats“, Eurozine
- Escobar, Arturo (2011), “Sustainability: Design for the Pluriverse”. Development 54, no. 2: 137–40.
- Rosa, Hartmut. Alienation and Acceleration: Towards a Critical Theory of Late-Modern Temporality. NSU Summertalk, v. 3. Malmö: NSU Press, 2010. The “public sphere lab”
8. Representation and deliberation in complex institutional arrangements
- Rischard, J (2002): High Noon, Nueva York, Basic Books (pp. 171-191)
- Risse, Thomas (2005): “Global Governance and Communicative Action” in Held, David and König-Archibugi, M. (Eds.): Global Governance and Public Accountability, London, Blackwell
- Santos, Boaventura de Sousa (2004): The World Social Forum: a user´s manual, Madison (Chapter 4 and 5) www.ces.uc.pt/bss/documentos/fsm_eng.pdf
Last two sessions: deliberative fora on pathways toward a social-ecological transformation (preparatory literature to be defined) |
