Imagined sovereignties : the power of the people and other myths of the modern age /

"Movements like the Arab Spring, Occupy Wall Street, and the Tea Party embody some of our deepest intuitions about popular politics and 'the power of the people'. They also expose tensions and shortcomings in our understanding of these ideals. We typically see 'the people' a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Olson, Kevin (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Temas:
Political participation > Social aspects.
Identity politics.
Group identity > Political aspects.
Sovereignty.
Participation politique > Aspect social.
Politique identitaire.
Identité collective > Aspect politique.
Souveraineté.
sovereignty.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Human Rights.
Politische Beteiligung
Gruppenidentität
Volkssouveränität
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Imagining politics; 2. 'Sovereignty is an artificial soul'
  • Ernesto Laclau and Benedict Anderson in dialogue; 3. How do we write a history of normative practices?
  • Castoriadis, Taylor, Foucault; 4. The problem of the people in Enlightenment France
  • a short genealogy of political collectivity; 5. Chimeras of political identity
  • intermediate reflections on the pathways of political imagination; 6. Sovereign imaginaries of the Revolutionary Caribbean; 7. Conscripted by modernity?
  • imagining sovereignty in the wake of colonialism; 8. Imagining the power of the people
  • critical reflections on the sovereignties of our time.

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