Democratizing democracy. Beyond the Liberal Democratic Canon

- De Sousa Santos- General Introduction: Reinventing Social Emancipation: Toward New Manifestos
- De Sousa Santos and Avritzer- Introduction: Opening up the Canon of Democracy
PART I: Social Movements and Democratic Aspirations
- Sheth- Micro-Movements in India: Toward a New Politics of Participatory Democracy
- Buhlungu- Reinventing Participatory Democracy in South Africa
- Uprimny and García Villegas- The Constitutional Court and Social Emancipation in Columbia
PART II: Women's Struggle for Democracy
- Meer- Which Workers, Which Women, What Interests? Race, Class, and Gender in Post-Apartheid South-Africa
- Osório- Political Power in Mozambique and Women's Activism
- Arthur- Ghosts Haunting Unions: Women Trade Unionists and the Struggle for their Rights, Mozambique, 1993 - 2000

PART III: Struggling for Democracy in a Scenario of Civil War and Fragmented Despotisms: The Case of Colombia
- Gutiérrez Sanín and Jaramillo- Paradoxical Pacts
- Ramírez- The Politics of Recognition and Citizenship in Putumayo and in the Baja Bota of Cauca; The Case of the 1996 Cocalero Movement
- Romero- The Banana Workers from Urabá: From "Subjects" to "Citizens"?
PART IV: Participatory Democracy in Action
- Uribe de H- Social Emancipation in a Context of Protracted War: The case of the Community of Peace in San José de Apartadó
- De Sousa Santos- Participatory Budgeting in Porto Alegre: Toward a Redistributive Democracy
- Avritzer- Modes of Democratic Deliberation: Participatory Budgeting in Brazil
- Heller and Isaac- The Politics and Institutional Design of Participatory Democracy: Lessons from Kerala, India
Commentary
- Sader- Toward New Democracies