Towards the Dignity of Difference?

The rise of popular social movements throughout the Middle East, North Africa, Europe and North America in 2011 challenged two hegemonic discourses of the post-Cold War era: Francis Fukuyama''s ''The End of History'' and Samuel Huntington''s ''The Clash of Civilizations.'' The quest for genuine democracy and social justice and the backlash against the neoliberal order is a common theme in the glob...