The African Origins of Democracy
暫譯: 民主的非洲起源

Reiter, Bernd

  • 出版商: Palgrave MacMillan
  • 出版日期: 2026-01-03
  • 售價: $5,670
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  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 220
  • 裝訂: Hardcover - also called cloth, retail trade, or trade
  • ISBN: 3032106257
  • ISBN-13: 9783032106254
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商品描述

The African Origins of Democracy challenges the myth that democracy was born in ancient Greece. Drawing on archaeology, anthropology, and political science, Bernd Reiter shows that egalitarian African societies practiced self-rule tens of thousands of years earlier--and that these traditions spread outward through migration and exchange. At the heart of the book is Botswana, where dikgotla--village assemblies--still embody living democracy today. Bold and provocative, this book rewrites democracy's story, centering Africa as its birthplace and urging us to imagine futures beyond elite-driven representative systems.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

《民主的非洲起源》挑戰了民主起源於古希臘的神話。透過考古學、人類學和政治科學,Bernd Reiter 展示了平等的非洲社會在數萬年前就已經實踐自我治理,並且這些傳統透過遷徙和交流向外擴散。本書的核心是博茨瓦納,這裡的 dikgotla(村莊大會)至今仍體現著活生生的民主。這本大膽且具挑釁性的書籍重新書寫了民主的歷史,將非洲作為其發源地,並促使我們想像超越精英驅動的代表制系統的未來。

作者簡介

Bernd Reiter is a political scientist and a professor of Luso-Latin American Studies for the Department of Classical and Modern Languages and Literatures at Texas Tech University, USA. He served as a Fulbright Distinguished Chair of Public Policy and as a Fulbright Specialist in Brazil, as well as a Erasmus Mundus Visiting Professor at the Barcelona Institute for International Studies. In 2020-21, he was a research associate at the Afro Latin American Research Institute at Harvard University. From 2018 to 2020, he was the director of the Institute for the Study of Latin America and the Caribbean, at the University of South Florida. He is the editor of the Routledge Decolonizing the Classics Special Book Series and a section editor-in-chief for the journal Social Sciences.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

伯恩德·賴特是政治學家,並擔任美國德州科技大學古典與現代語言文學系的葡萄牙-拉丁美洲研究教授。他曾擔任富布萊特公共政策特聘教授及富布萊特專家,並在巴西工作,還曾是巴塞隆納國際研究所的伊拉斯謨斯·蒙杜斯訪問教授。在2020至2021年期間,他是哈佛大學非洲拉丁美洲研究所的研究助理。從2018年到2020年,他擔任南佛羅里達大學拉丁美洲及加勒比海研究所的所長。他是Routledge去殖民化古典文學特別書系的編輯,並擔任期刊社會科學的主編。

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