Emancipations, Modern and Postmodern

This outstanding reappraisal of emancipation reviews the meaning of the concept and the use to which it is put in social and political theory.

The appeal of emancipation is portrayed here as a concept which can embrace old and new social movements and the ideas of liberation, participation and empowerment. The areas on which the book focuses are Marxism and postmarxism, democracy and social movements, feminism and development theory.