ABSTRACT
This chapter traces the multidimensional project of radical democracy as one attempt to take up the challenge of re-envisioning democracy in theory and practice. It examines how well the radical democratic project might function in addressing the kind of global problems that have otherwise challenged the liberal democratic project. Indeed, when described in the dynamic and active terms, radical democracy is democratic activism that remains always responsive to calls for justice and is constantly re-articulated through the concretely motivated practices and intersections of individuals and social movements. The chapter reconsiders an issue raised earlier with reference to deliberative understandings of democracy, that concerning the potential for democratic theory to unsettle and perhaps dismantle what is arguably the greatest of the borders demarcating and defining a political community: that which separates the human and non-human worlds. Specifically cosmopolitical arguments regarding democracy are most productive for engagements with calls for climate justice and the development of a green democracy.
