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233
academia, structural transformation in
198, 211–12n
Adams, P. 153, 154
affirmative action 88–9, 121, 140, 142,
147, 150, 175, 179, 192, 201
Ahmad, A. 14
AIDS 29–30
Alarcón, N. 95
Alexander, J. and Mohanty, C. 182
Althusser, L. 63, 71, 103, 110, 162–3, 197,
209n
Anzaldúa, G. 200–1, 201
Appiah, A. 156, 157, 209n
Arendt, H. 203n
articulation 85, 87, 95, 97, 99, 104, 106,
135, 139, 146, 174, 200, 201
Bachrach, P. 148
Baker, E. 36
Baldwin, J. 35, 192
Balibar, E. 63, 99, 111, 114, 203n, 210n,
211n
Barthes, R. 166
Baudrillard, J. 144
Bem, S. 155
Berlin, I. 118–19, 121
Bernal, M. 183
Bhabha, H. 190
Big Flame 38
Blackburn, R. 48
Bourdieu, P. 63–4
Bowles, S. and Gintis, H. 151
Brown, W. 19, 23, 208n
Butler, J. 79–80, 151–2, 153, 155, 158–9,
162, 170, 207n, 209n
Chodorow, N. 152, 208n
Christian, B. 191
citizenship 126, 127–8, 135, 137, 138–9,
146, 147
class 43–6, 53–4, 59–60, 61–2, 67, 68–9,
99–100, 114–15, 197; and exploitation
13, 204n; and fragmentation 13–14, 25,
110–11, 114; and race 27–8, 93–4, 95,
98, 110
Clinton, B. 176, 180, 193, 201, 202, 205n,
210n
Cohen, G. 45, 113, 208n
Coles, R. 107
communitarianism 117–18, 119–25, 126,
127, 136, 150
Connolly, W. 22, 67, 126, 204n
Crenshaw, K. 94–5
Culler, J. 86, 92
Cunningham, F. 35
Dallmayr, F. 145, 206n
Daly, G. 108, 127
Davis, A. 122
Democratic Party 90, 180; see also
Clinton, B.
democratic revolution 6–9, 177
Derrida, J. 2, 78–80, 83, 85, 107, 112, 132,
141, 145–6, 159, 204n
Dole, B. 90, 175–6
Drakulic, S. 205n
D’Souza, D. 211n
economic inequality: United States 16–18
Eisenstein, Z. 31–2, 105
Elson, D. 22
environmentalism 23, 34, 91
eschatology 23–4
INDEX

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I N D E X
234
Eurocentrism, critique of 183, 188–9,
195–6
Fanon, F. 35, 73
fascism 120, 128–31, 134–5, 144
Fausto-Sterling, A. 153–4
feminism 91, 92, 100–1, 101, 108, 161,
162, 173–4, 178, 199–200, 205n;
British socialist feminism 37; in Russia
and Eastern Europe 15; in United
States 89
feminist theory 42, 58, 94, 99, 100, 101,
151–6, 158, 159–162, 208n; and
exploitation of domestic labour 26–7
Fish, S. 63–4, 185
Foucault, M. 25, 51, 83, 93, 151, 153, 158,
163, 185, 196, 209n
Fraser, N. 196, 203n
Friedman, M. 12
functionalism, critique of 158
Fuss, D. 100, 101
Gates, H.L. (Jr.) 156, 157
gay activism 91; British gay left 37–8; gay
marriage 204–5n
gender 151–6, 158–9, 160; and class 17,
18, 26–7, 203–4n, 206n; and race
94–5, 100, 105, 154–5, 161
Gilroy, P. 73, 95–7, 98, 106, 107, 190, 191,
199
Gitlin, T. 34, 200, 212n
global restructuration 16–17
Gould, C. 20, 21
Gramsci, A. 35, 50–5, 57, 66, 75, 76, 78,
80, 81, 82–3, 102–3, 106, 111, 124–5,
151, 162, 163, 164, 165–6, 168, 169,
178–9, 180, 181, 184, 198–9, 209n;
passive revolution 178–9, 181, 200,
210n; war of maneuvre and war of
position 165, 179
Guinier, L. 148
Gutmann, A. 140, 182
Habermas, J. 131–2, 144–5, 184
Hall, S. 56, 93–4, 98, 101–2, 107–8, 108,
163–4, 167, 171, 180–1, 190, 206n,
208n
Haraway, D. 161, 199
Harrington, M. 20
Hartsock, N. 26–7, 95, 152, 208n
Hegel, G. 51, 117, 122, 165
hegemony 32–3, 46, 50–2, 54, 55, 56,
64–5, 106–7, 149, 151, 152, 160,
162–4, 165–76, 177–82, 183, 184–5,
188, 189, 211n; authoritarian
hegemony 177–81
Hero, R. 148
Herrnstein, R. and Murray, C. 19, 157,
196
heterosexism 137; and capitalism 29
Higginbotham, E. 157
Hobsbawm, E. 34, 212n
homophobia 28–30, 93, 131, 142, 154,
155, 161, 171, 178, 205n, 211n; and
economic inequality 28–9
hooks, bell 199
Hume, D. 111
Husserl, E. 172
hybridity 35, 41, 62, 96, 97, 101, 114, 163,
181, 183, 186, 192, 199
intersexed infants, treatment of 153–4
Kant, I. 116–17
Kautsky, K. 46, 50, 53
King, M.L. (Jr.) 35, 122, 158
Kolakowski, L. 14, 48
Kuhn, T. 161–2, 198
Kymlicka, W. 121–3, 140, 142–3
Labour Party 37, 39, 202
Lacanian psychoanalytic theory 57, 68,
73–4, 74–83, 88, 98, 98–9, 108, 133–4,
152, 155–6, 168–9, 171, 173, 187–8,
194, 207n
LaCapra, D. 75–6, 206–7n
Lefort, C. 7, 14, 23–4, 127, 166
Left: British 36–9; see also Labour Party
Lenin, V. 14, 24, 43–4, 45–9, 51, 53, 66,
74
lesbian and gay history 93
Levine, L. 183, 192
liberal democracy 116–17, 118, 118–24,
126–8, 136, 150, 189; and
‘democratization’ 5; development 16;
liberal pluralism 147–50; and
‘possessive individualism’ 10–11, 147
Locke, J. 10–11
logic of difference 89–90, 174, 175
logic of equivalence 88–9, 174, 175, 195
Lowi, T. 148
Lubiano, W. 191–2

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235
Lukács, G. 66
Luxemburg, R. 20, 24–5
Lyotard, J.-F. 144–5, 146
McClintock, A. 82, 168, 207n
McClure, K. 99
Maclntyre, A. 124
MacKinnon, C. 42, 152
Macpherson, C.B. 10, 11
Malcolm X 35, 122
maquiladoras 206n
Marcil-Lacoste, L. 144, 190
market socialism 21–2
Marshall, T. 127–8
Martin, B. 162
Marx, K. 20, 40, 43, 54–5, 60, 62, 66,
101–2, 112–13, 114, 166, 189, 204n,
208n
Marx, K. and Engels, F. 20, 44–5, 62–3
Marxist theory: critique of economic
reductionism in 102–3, 103, 109–15,
151; critique of essentialism in 2–3, 25–
6, 30, 36, 39–41, 42–3, 58, 63, 74, 84,
98, 102; critique of ‘scientific’ claims in
24–5, 40, 49, 51, 53, 61; and cultural
studies 4; and democracy 19–25, 87, 90–
1, 201; false consciousness 59, 91; and
human rights 31, 40; and power 151;
Second International 206n; and
socialist revolutions 13–15; see also class,
Gramsci, Kautsky, Lenin, Luxemburg,
Marx, Marx and Engels, Stalinism
Mercer, C. 206n, 210n
Miliband, R. 22, 23
Mill, J.S. 11, 35, 148, 149
multiculturalism 33–4, 46, 54, 89, 140–3,
147, 157, 174–5, 178, 179, 182–4, 186,
187, 190, 191, 192, 197, 198, 201,
205n
Nancy, J. 210n
nation-state theory: critique of 137–8
nationalism 98, 145, 210n
neo-conservatism 10, 57, 59, 66–7, 69, 70–
1, 75, 107, 147, 150, 174, 175–6, 178,
192–3, 196, 197; socialist critique of
12–13, 16
Nicholson, L. 153
Nietzsche, E 77, 185
nodal point 32, 89, 98, 104, 105–6, 115
Norval, A. 78, 82, 175, 191, 194, 196
Nove, A. 21
Omi, M. and Winant, H. 27
overdetermination 88, 97, 101, 103, 110,
115, 150, 160, 195
Paggi, L. 111
Parent, M. 148
Phillips, A. 136
Plotke, D. 205n
positivism, critique of 60, 159–60
Québecois nationalism 4, 187
Quine, W. 60
race 72–3, 156–7, 158, 159, 189, 190, 191,
192, 193–4, 195, 200, 210–11n; and
class 27–8, 93–4, 95, 98, 110, 193,
203n; and gender 94–5, 100, 105
racism 12, 70, 72–3, 75, 87–8, 93–4, 96,
105, 106, 121, 122–3, 134, 143, 150,
156–7, 158, 163, 171, 173, 178, 179,
186, 196, 199, 207n; and economic
inequality 17–18; hate speech 170–1,
209n; and labour segmentation 27;
South African apartheid 150, 175, 194,
195, 196; South Africa post-apartheid
186, 194–5
radical democratic pluralism 33, 34, 54,
59, 66–7, 123–4, 125–6, 130, 132–3,
135, 138–9, 139–40, 143–4, 146, 147,
149–50, 173, 177, 181–2, 185, 186,
192, 201–2; and anti-essentialism 40,
42–3; and authenticity claims 91–2,
100; autonomy principle 32;
democratic limits of 34, 119–20, 143–4,
146–7, 186, 191; and hegemony 32;
and liberal democracy 31–2, 39; and
Marxism 31–2, 39–40, 50, 52, 114–15;
and political economy 30–1; and power
40, 41; see also multiculturalism
Rawls, J. 116–17, 119–20, 149
Readings, B. 198, 210n, 211–12n
relations of oppression 8
relations of subordination 8
relativism 77, 103–4, 107–9, 184
religious fundamentalism 49, 57, 59, 66–7,
69, 90, 131, 141, 142, 145, 146, 174,
175, 178, 179–80, 193, 202
reproductive rights 15, 31

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I N D E X
236
Republican Party 90, 175–6; see also Dole,
B.
Rorty, R. 5, 126–7, 132, 184, 208n
Rose, J. 207n
Salecl, R. 75, 207n
Sandel, M. 124–5
Sandoval, C. 200–1, 201
Saussure, F. de 84–7, 88, 92, 97, 98, 98–9,
103, 157
Schmitt, C. 128–30, 134–5, 208n
Scott, J. C. 209n
Scott, J.W. 75, 139, 152, 199
Sedgwick, E. 94
Segal, L. 36, 39
sexuality: and capitalism 29
Shohat, E. and Stam, R. 73, 96, 182, 183
Smith, A. 11
Spillers, H. 105
Spivak, G. 161, 187
Stalinism 12, 14–15, 48–9
structural positions: definition of 56–64,
71–2, 157–8, 159
subject positions: definition of 56–64,
71–2, 73–4, 157–8, 159
Takaki, R. 203
Thatcherism 39, 163–4, 171, 180–1
Thomas, K. 191
Tocqueville, A. de 7, 9, 203n
trade union movement 1, 2, 13, 36–9, 39,
46, 47, 50, 61–2, 69, 206n
utilitarianism 116, 117
vanguard party 24, 46–9, 74
voluntarism 64, 103–5, 106–7, 117, 152,
157, 170
Walzer, M. 22, 135–8, 139, 210n
Weeks, J. 29
welfare state: and bureaucratization 15;
‘reform’ in Europe 1, 128; ‘reform’ in
United States 17, 70–1, 75, 128, 176,
196, 197
Wittgenstein, L. 60, 64, 83, 85, 159,
160–1
Young, I. 125, 136
Zapatista movement 30
Zerilli, L. 209n
Žižek, S. 75–6, 80, 168, 194, 206n, 207n

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Document Outline

• Book Cover
• Title
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Retrieving democracy: the radical democratic imaginary
• Essentialism, non-essentialism and democratic leadership: from Lenin to Gramsci
• Subject positions, articulation and the subversion of essentialism
• Self-determination, community and citizenship
• Power and hegemony
• Conclusion: multicultural difference and the political
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index