![]() ![]() ![]() 88).Īlthough the text is written primarily within the context of US politics, there are a range of parallels that can be drawn with Western European politics over the past 30 years, where similar shifts from social democratic to neoliberal government have been apparent. Indeed, one of the book aims is to challenge a “pedagogic mode” that perpetuates divisions between “the academic” and “the activist”, seeking to develop alternative ways of “thinking, speaking, writing and acting that are engaged and curious about “other people” struggles for social justice” (p. The work will be accessible to a broad audience of academics and activists as well as undergraduate and postgraduate students interested in social theory, politics, social policy, sociology and equality issues. The author states that the Twilight of Equality is both an analysis of the politics of the 1990s but also a polemic that argues that “as long as the progressive left represents itself as divided into economic vs cultural, universal vs identity based, distribution vs recognition orientated, local or national vs global branches, it will defeat itself” (p. The Twilight of Equality is a clearly written and concise text with the substantive content consisting of four core chapters – “Downsizing Democracy”, “The Incredible Shrinking Public”, “Equality Inc”, and “Love and Money” – which span just 90 pages. Copyright © 2007, Emerald Group Publishing Limited ![]()
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