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Decolonizing democracy : intersections of philosophy and postcolonial theory /

Decolonizing Democracy: Intersections of Philosophy and Postcolonial Theory analyzes the concept and the discourse of democracy. Ferit Güven demonstrates how democracy is deployed as a neo-colonial tool to discipline and further subjugate formerly colonized peoples and spaces. The book explains why...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Güven, Ferit, 1966- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham : Lexington Books, [2015]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The genealogy of democracy: from Plato to Schmitt
  • Foucault, bio-disciplinary power and "cogitological power"
  • Democracy and specters of post/neo colonialism
  • Hunger strikers, suicide bombers & all the other evil terrorists
  • Derrida and democracy-to-come.