{"product_id":"civil-repair-hardback-9781509506446","title":"Civil Repair (Hardback) 9781509506446","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eCivil Repair\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJeffrey C. Alexander (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781509506446, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 15 November 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e224 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.4 x 15.8 x 2.3 cm, 0.431 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Repair: really? According to Jeffrey Alexander, yes, really! Whether you still want to believe in its utopian promises, or see the civil sphere as the source of Western democracy's failures, this collection of essays on the challenges of the new millennium from one of the preeminent American social theorists of our time will help you – or maybe force you – to take a fresh look at social movements, politics, and social change.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDoug Hartmann, University of Minnesota\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"With his civil sphere theory, Jeffrey Alexander offered us a decoder ring for the dizzying debates and deep divisions that shape modern democratic life. In his newest work, \u003ci\u003eCivil Repair\u003c\/i\u003e, he shows that amid this tumult determined groups of democratic actors have succeeded in their efforts to advance solidarity and justice. Though he is clear that these 'frontlash' projects of civil repair often trigger equally powerful spasms of 'backlash,' this book offers hope during a troubling time.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRuth Braunstein, University of Connecticut\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eCivil Repair\u003c\/i\u003e (2024) represents another major building block of the author's Civil Sphere Theory (CST) - a framework for understanding what civil socity is, as well as what it could become.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe British Journal of\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e Sociology\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"One of the world's renowned sociological theorists, the author demonstrates his great analytical skill and writing talent throughout the book: solid prose, lucid writing, detailed historical discussions of specific examples, an impressive wealth of literature consulted and reviewed, and the willingness to critique long-standing assumptions of social science all point to an impressive scholarly achievement.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eMediterranean Quarterly\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book challenges the pessimism that has so marked, and impoverished, social theorizing about modern life. Modernity has often been dark and debilitating, but it has also generated hope for a better life and extraordinary reforms and liberations, from the creation of hopeful democracies in the face of dangerous dictatorships to feminist transformations of patriarchy, struggles against imperialism and racial domination, and the stubborn but persistent reconstruction of pivotal institutions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJeffrey Alexander theorizes these radical reforms as \"civil repairs\" – as efforts to make real the utopian promises of the civil sphere. Ideal civil spheres make stirring commitments to social solidarity, equality, and individual autonomy. Real civil spheres are rent by anti-civil hierarchies of class, gender, race, and religion.  Contradictions between real and ideal civil spheres generate social movements for justice, which are not only about challenging power but making new and more solidarizing meanings. Civil repair is at once symbolic and institutional. It offers a new way to conceptualize progressive social change.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Civil Repair and Social Theory\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. The Long and Winding Road: Civil Repair of Intimate Injustice\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2. Feminism, Public Opinion and Presidential Power (with Willa Sachs)\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3. #MeToo as Societalization\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4. From Civil Rights to Black Lives Matter\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5. Obama-Tahrir-Occupy: Utopias of Civil Liberation\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6. From Civil War to Civil Peace: Trauma and Repair\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7. 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