Book Review: Maria Mies, Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale: Women in the International Division of Labour, Maria Mies and Vandana Shiva, Ecofeminism
| Author | Mounia Utzeri |
| Date | 01 February 2017 |
| Published date | 01 February 2017 |
| DOI | 10.1177/1478929916673772 |
| Subject Matter | Book ReviewsGeneral Politics |
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The arguments here may have benefitted
compliance with the laws. Rather than auton-
from greater consideration of poverty and dis-
omy acting as some sort of side-constraint
empowerment as part of trade in order to situ-
on the development of civic education pro-
ate the discussion more prominently within
grammes, MacMullen invites political and
global political studies. However, MacDonald’s
educational theorists to explore the various
book is a timely and relevant reminder of the
trade-offs that are required for the functioning
forgotten politics of power that exists in mod-
of secure and lasting liberal democracies.
ern supply chains. MacDonald demonstrates
The book contains eight chapters and is
the political difficulties associated with reduc-
broken up into three different parts. Chapter 1
ing poverty and improving working conditions
provides an introduction to the aims and limits
in the supply chains of two highly politicised
of civic education in contemporary political
sectors in Nicaragua. This provides a valuable
and educational theory. Chapters 2 and 3 in
contribution to the understanding of how trans-
Part I argue for using civic education to culti-
national and traditional governance structures
vate non-autonomous reasons for compliance
interact in global supply chains.
with the laws. Chapters 4 and 5 in Part II put
forward an account of civic identification
which promises to be more motivationally effi-
Ashley McLachlan-Bent
cacious than patriotic love. Chapters 6 and 7 in
(Australian Maritime College, University of
Part III provide a qualified defence of status
Tasmania)
quo bias in civic education. The final chapter
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concludes by offering some final remarks and
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Civics Beyond Critics is an important
addition to the literature on civic education in
contemporary political and educational theory.
Civics Beyond Critics: Character Education
It provides a philosophically rigorous analysis
in a Liberal Democracy by Ian MacMullen.
of the very idea and limits of civic education
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. 275pp.,
£30.00 (h/b), ISBN 9780198733614
in a liberal democratic polity. MacMullen’s
analysis has opened up new ground on how
According to a commonly held view among
far the liberal democratic state is reasonably
political and educational theorists, civic educa-
justified in going when it comes to shaping the
tion, while essential for the...
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