Themed collections of essays from openDemocracy's distinguished authors
Six editions per year
Our series of print collections builds on an established online reputation for going beyond and behind the headlines to brring you informed dialogue and debate. Here, you can find the best of openDemocracy within a single volume, based around a single theme.
Forthcoming titles include reflections from openDemocracy Russia's first year of publishing and many more.
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Forthcoming in November 2009
Open Web, Open Society? Liberty, Democracy and the Net
ed. Tony Curzon Price
Ever since openDemocracy was founded, its readers and contributors have engaged in rigorous discussions of the medium on which it relies - the internet. Over the last nine years openDemocracy has charted and commented on the emergence of those issues which have formed the current information culture: the copyright revolution and the rise of Creative Commons licensing, the evolution of citizen journalism and its effect on the traditional press, and the erosion of privacy.
This volume brings together seven years of observation and debate on the growth of the internet from the leading thinkers and pioneers of new media, and examines the radical reframing of our ideas of citizenry, liberty, democracy and state which this all-pervasive system demands.
Contributors:
Charlie Beckett, David M Berry, Tom Chance, Felix Cohen, James Crabtree, Li Datong, Todd Gitlin, Paul Hilder, Becky Hogge, Emily MacManus, Evgeny Morozov, Tony Curzon Price, Richard Stallman, Ransom
Stephens, Bill Thompson, Siva Vaidhyanathan, Jack Valenti, Tamara Witschge, Jonathan Zittrain
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Available now!
The Power of Giving - Philanthropy Debated
ed. Tony Curzon Price and David Hayes
This forthcoming title collates openDemocracy's nine-month debate, led by Michael Edwards (author of Just Another Emperor? The Myths and Realities of Philanthrocapitalism), exploring the social efficacy of philanthrocapitalism and its implications for democracy.
Contributors: Michael Edwards, Gara La Marche, Geoff Mulgan, Simon Zadek, Stewart J. Paperin, Mark Surman, Colin Greer, Karen Weisblatt, Kavita N. Ramdas.
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Most recent edition from openDemocracy Quarterly series 1
1:5: 50.50: Women Writers, Politics and Voice
Editor Rosemary Bechler | January 2009 | £9.99
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Quarterly Series 1
1.4: Undercurrent: life after Katrina
New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina in 2005 was a devastated city: neglected by the authorities, deprived of basic services, deserted by thousands of its inhabitants, haunted by loss and tragedy. Jim Gabour, resident and writer, decided to stay.
In the months after Katrina, he sent a series of reports and reflections on how he, his family, his neighbours, friends and fellow-citizens were coping with the aftermath and reconstructing their homes and lives. In the resulting everyday epics of survival and discovery, the heart and soul of a wounded but life-affirming New Orleans quietly unfolds.
1.3: Europe: Visions, Realities, Futures
Europe is at once geographical expression, historical creation, cultural space, and political project. In the early 21st century, it is also a site of contention, involving competing visions of its identity, boundaries and future. Published in a "big year" for Europe, this third edition is intended as a unique guide, resource and stimulus to help make sense of where Europe has been and where it is going.
1.2: Turkey: Writers, Politics and Free Speech
In memoriam, Hrant Dink (1954-2007)
This special collection, in memory of Armenian-Turkish journalist Hrant Dink who was killed in January 2007, includes three articles by Hrant himself. Consistent and courageous in his efforts to speak the truth, defend justice and advance human rights, Dink was a key figure in democratic dialogue in Turkey and beyond, and an important contributor to openDemocracy. Turkish and Armenian analysts here reflect on Hrant's life and on the questions raised by his death and its aftermath.
1.1: Europe and Islam: Controversy, Protest, Dialogue
The London bombings, the Danish cartoon controversy and Pope Benedict XVI's "evil and inhuman" speech in Regensburg were some of the markers of a difficult new phase in Europe and Islam's long shared history. In this collection, we see in openDemocracy writers' commentary the premonitions of the events yet to come. The challenge as we read is to listen for those echoes from the future
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