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Therborn’s writing invites thoughtful engagement with the forces shaping modern governance and inequality.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"inequality-and-the-labyrinths-of-democracy-by-goran-therborn-9781788738996","title":"Inequality and the Labyrinths of Democracy","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eClassical liberalism regarded universal suffrage as a mortal threat to property. So what explains the advent of liberal democracy, and how stable today is the marriage between representative government and the continued rule of capital?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAcross every continent, people think inequality is a ‘very big problem’. Even the Davos Economic Forum and the OECD say they are worried. And yet capitalist states don’t respond. How has democracy been transformed from a popular demand for social justice into a professional power game?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTo dispel our worsening political malaise, Göran Therborn argues, requires a ‘disruptive democracy’ of radical social movements, such as the climate strike. \u003cem\u003eInequality and the Labyrinths of Democracy\u003c\/em\u003e opens with a major new essay mapping the social fractures of the present era. 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Through a global, historical lens, and with a thematic range extending from the mutations of modernist architecture to the contemporary return of urban revolutions, Therborn questions received assumptions about the source, manifestations and reach of urban power, combining perspectives on politics, sociology, urban planning, architecture, and urban iconography.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith its unique systematic overview, from Washington DC and revolutionary Paris to the flamboyant twenty-first century capital of Kazakhstan, its wealth of urban observations from all the populated continents, and its sharp and multi-faceted analyses, \u003ci\u003eCities of Power\u003c\/i\u003e forces us to rethink our urban future, as well as our historically shaped present.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47596008308972,"sku":"9781784785451","price":29.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/fb9795e328208ba108a48e3f11a34c08.jpg?v=1777937113"},{"product_id":"from-marxism-to-post-marxism-by-goran-therborn-9781788732437","title":"From Marxism to Post-Marxism?","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this succinct and panoramic work—both stimulating for the specialist and accessible to the general reader—one of the world's leading social theorists, Göran Therborn, tackles the question of the trajectory of Marxism in the twentieth century and its legacy for radical thought in the twenty-first.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAddressing the history of critical theory from the contemporary vantage-point characterised by postmodernism, post-Marxism and critiques of Eurocentrism, Therborn probes how the recent theoretical currents—including those of Slavoj Žižek, Antonio Negri, and Alain Badiou—have coped with the changed intellectual as well as political and economic contexts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn the light of these discussions, Therborn then proceeds to a global investigation of the parameters of twenty-first century politics. \u003cem\u003eFrom Marxism to Post-Marxism?\u003c\/em\u003e will become the essential appraisal of Marxism in the modern age.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47602971902188,"sku":"9781788732437","price":26.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781788732437-from-marxism-to-post-marxism.jpg?v=1778050899"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/goran-therborn.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}