Imagined sovereignties : the power of the people and other myths of the modern age
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Imagined sovereignties : the power of the people and other myths of the modern age
Cambridge University Press, 2016
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-214) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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' as having a special, sovereign power. Despite the centrality of this idea in our thinking, we have little understanding of why it has such importance. Imagined Sovereignties probes the considerable force that 'the people' exercises on our thought and practice. Like the imagined communities described by Benedict Anderson, popular politics is formed around shared, imaginary constructs rooted in our collective imagination. This book investigates these 'imagined sovereignties' in a genealogy traversing the French Enlightenment, the Haitian Revolution, and nineteenth-century Haitian constitutionalism. It problematizes taken-for-granted ideas about popular politics and provokes new ways of imagining the power of the people.
Table of Contents
- 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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