Andy Wallace

Bio: Andy Wallace is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Democracy. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 1 publications receiving 3 citations.

Environmental commitments in different types of democracies: The role of liberal, social-liberal, and deliberative politics

Abstract: This research project was supported by the Center for Collective Action Research, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

Rhetoric, Reflection, and Emancipation: Farrell and Habermas on the Critical Studies of Communication

Abstract: There are moments in history that appear to be alive with emancipatory possibilities. Such were the years moving toward the end of the long twentieth century. In spring 1989, students protested the communist regime in China; the Tiananmen Square massacre initiated an episode of opposition and com menced China's modern journey toward global reengagement. Revolutions in Europe that autumn were more peaceful. On August 23 two million Estonian, Latvian, and Lithuanian citizens held hands and announced the Baltic Way as a departure from Soviet rule. Transitions rapidly followed in Hungary, Bulgaria, and East Germany, culminating in the Velvet Revolution where on November 17 student protests were beaten back by police in Prague only to be followed three days later by an assembly of 200,000 demanding the transfer of power from the Communist Party. On December 3, George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev jointly announced an imminent end to the fifty year-old Cold War. During this time of hopeful transition, two scholars were at work refiguring the philosophical mission of the Frankfurt school, trans forming critique from its early totalizing posture into the critical study of communication.