Democracy As Fetish
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Democracy As Fetish
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Author : Ralph Cintron
language : en
Publisher: Penn State Press
Release Date : 2019-12-10
Democracy As Fetish written by Ralph Cintron and has been published by Penn State Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-10 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Democracy has long been fetishized. Consequently, how we speak about democracy and what we expect from democratic governance are at odds with practice. With unflinching resolve, this book probes the theory of democracy and how the left and right are fascinated by it. In this innovative multidisciplinary study, Ralph Cintron provides sustained analysis of our political discourse. He shows not only how the rhetoric of democracy produces strong desires for social order, global wealth, and justice but also how these desires cannot be satisfied. Throughout his discussion, Cintron includes ethnographic research from fieldwork conducted over the course of twenty years in the Latino neighborhoods of Chicago, where he observes both citizens and the undocumented looking to democracy to fulfill their highest aspirations. Politicians hand out favors to the elite, developers strong-arm aldermen, and the disenfranchised have little redress. The problem, Cintron argues, is that the conditions required to put democracy into practice—territory, a bordered nation-state, citizens, property—are constituted by inequality and violence, because there is no inclusivity that does not also exclude. Drawing on ethnography, economics, political theory, and rhetorical analysis, Cintron makes his case with tremendous analytic rigor. This challenge to reassess the discourses on democracy and to consider democratic politics as always compromised by oligarchy will be of particular interest to political and rhetorical theorists.
Growth Fetish
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Author : Clive Hamilton
language : en
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Release Date : 2003
Growth Fetish written by Clive Hamilton and has been published by Allen & Unwin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Social Science categories.
Accessible critique of Western society under capitalism by leading scholar.
Middle Class An Intellectual History Through Social Sciences
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Author : Matteo Battistini
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2022-07-18
Middle Class An Intellectual History Through Social Sciences written by Matteo Battistini and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-07-18 with Social Science categories.
Matteo Battistini offers a critical deconstruction of the fetish of the middle class. Social sciences strive to transform an image of labour and capital as opposing forces into a consensual order wherein capitalism and democracy could coexist without tension.
Malevolent Republic
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Author : K.S. (Kapil Satish) Komireddi
language : en
Publisher: Hurst Publishers
Release Date : 2024-03-28
Malevolent Republic written by K.S. (Kapil Satish) Komireddi and has been published by Hurst Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-03-28 with Political Science categories.
After decades of imperfect secularism, presided over by an often corrupt Congress establishment, Nehru’s diverse republic has yielded to Hindu nationalism. India, the first major democracy to fall to demagogic populism in the twenty-first century, is racing to a point of no return. Since 2014, the ruling BJP has unleashed forces that are irreversibly transforming the country. Indian democracy, honed over decades, is now the chief enabler of Hindu extremism. Bigotry has been ennobled as a healthy form of self-assertion. Anti Muslim vitriol has deluged the mainstream. Religious minorities live in terror of a vengeful majority. Congress now mimics Modi; other parties pray for a miracle. In this highly acclaimed critique of post-Independence India from Nehru to Narendra Modi, revised and expanded with a new chapter, K.S. Komireddi charts the dismaying course of the world’s largest democracy. He argues that the missteps of the nation’s founders, the mistakes of Nehru, the betrayals of his daughter and her sons, the anti-democratic fetish for technocracy carried to extremes by Manmohan Singh—all of them prepared the way for Modi’s march to absolute power. If secularists fail to wrest the republic from Hindu supremacists, Komireddi argues, India may go the way of Yugoslavia and collapse under the burden of sinister ethno-religious nationalism. A gripping short history of modern India, Malevolent Republic is also a passionate plea for India’s reclamation.
Democratic Governance
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Author : Séverine Bellina
language : en
Publisher: Hurst & Company
Release Date : 2009
Democratic Governance written by Séverine Bellina and has been published by Hurst & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Political Science categories.
'Governance' has become a key word in the lexicon of international relations over the last twenty years. It is used, loosely, and invariably in a liberal idiom, by scholars, activists, civil society organizations, politicians and the voluntary sector. In many respects it has attained the status of a fetish, yet 'governance' remains a notion that has multiple definitions, a concept in-the-making. Notwithstanding the imprecision with which the term is employed, it has become an inescapable paradigm for the politics of development. The contributors to this book, drawn from among some of the world's best area studies specialists, from North and South, offer a diverse global critique of 'governance' as deployed in several key areas: institutions and state actors; the rule of law, democracy and human rights; decentralization and state power; development and, last but not least, international cooperation and the role of the World Bank, the IMF and NGOs. The geographical spread of the volume ranges from Africa to Latin America, from Asia to the Middle East. Their objectives include: a reassessment of 'governance' in its many manifestations; an attempt to free the term from its often unhelpful linkage to the state, and thereby apply it to other organizations and actors; a re-evaluation of the Western-dominated use of the term politically and an attempt to broaden its application beyond issues such as transparency and the fight against corruption; and a search for innovative applications of the term, driven by a consensus that transcends current economic and political inequalities.
Democracy Matters
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Author : Cornel West
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2005-08-30
Democracy Matters written by Cornel West and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-08-30 with Political Science categories.
“Uncompromising and unconventional . . . Cornel West is an eloquent prophet with attitude.” — Newsweek“ "A timely analysis about the current state of democratic systems in America." — The Boston Globe In Democracy Matters, Cornel West argues that if America is to become a better steward of democratization around the world, we must first wake up to the long history of corruption that has plagued our own democracy: racism, free market fundamentalism, aggressive militarism, and escalating authoritarianism. This impassioned and empowering call for the revitalization of America's democracy, by one of our most distinctive and compelling social critics, will reshape the raging national debate about America's role in today's troubled world.
In The Ruins Of Neoliberalism
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Author : Wendy Brown
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2019-07-16
In The Ruins Of Neoliberalism written by Wendy Brown and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-16 with Philosophy categories.
Across the West, hard-right leaders are surging to power on platforms of ethno-economic nationalism, Christianity, and traditional family values. Is this phenomenon the end of neoliberalism or its monstrous offspring? In the Ruins of Neoliberalism casts the hard-right turn as animated by socioeconomically aggrieved white working- and middle-class populations but contoured by neoliberalism’s multipronged assault on democratic values. From its inception, neoliberalism flirted with authoritarian liberalism as it warred against robust democracy. It repelled social-justice claims through appeals to market freedom and morality. It sought to de-democratize the state, economy, and society and re-secure the patriarchal family. In key works of the founding neoliberal intellectuals, Wendy Brown traces the ambition to replace democratic orders with ones disciplined by markets and traditional morality and democratic states with technocratic ones. Yet plutocracy, white supremacy, politicized mass affect, indifference to truth, and extreme social disinhibition were no part of the neoliberal vision. Brown theorizes their unintentional spurring by neoliberal reason, from its attack on the value of society and its fetish of individual freedom to its legitimation of inequality. Above all, she argues, neoliberalism’s intensification of nihilism coupled with its accidental wounding of white male supremacy generates an apocalyptic populism willing to destroy the world rather than endure a future in which this supremacy disappears.
The Fetish Revisited
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Author : J. Lorand Matory
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2018-10-26
The Fetish Revisited written by J. Lorand Matory and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-26 with Social Science categories.
Since the early-modern encounter between African and European merchants on the Guinea Coast, European social critics have invoked African gods as metaphors for misplaced value and agency, using the term “fetishism” chiefly to assert the irrationality of their fellow Europeans. Yet, as J. Lorand Matory demonstrates in The Fetish Revisited, Afro-Atlantic gods have a materially embodied social logic of their own, which is no less rational than the social theories of Marx and Freud. Drawing on thirty-six years of fieldwork in Africa, Europe, and the Americas, Matory casts an Afro-Atlantic eye on European theory to show how Marx’s and Freud’s conceptions of the fetish both illuminate and misrepresent Africa’s human-made gods. Through this analysis, the priests, practices, and spirited things of four major Afro-Atlantic religions simultaneously call attention to the culture-specific, materially conditioned, physically embodied, and indeed fetishistic nature of Marx’s and Freud’s theories themselves. Challenging long-held assumptions about the nature of gods and theories, Matory offers a novel perspective on the social roots of these tandem African and European understandings of collective action, while illuminating the relationship of European social theory to the racism suffered by Africans and assimilated Jews alike.
Fantasies Of Fetishism
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Author : Amanda Fernbach
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
Fantasies Of Fetishism written by Amanda Fernbach and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Art categories.
This work argues that the orthodox interpretation of classical fetishism is not and never has been up to the task of explaining all cultural fetishisms. It identifies several different forms of fetishism and accounts for its sometimes radical edge.
Culture Catastrophe And Rhetoric
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Author : Robert Hariman
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2015-10-01
Culture Catastrophe And Rhetoric written by Robert Hariman and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-01 with Social Science categories.
This volume explores political culture, especially the catastrophic elements of the global social order emerging in the twenty-first century. By emphasizing the texture of political action, the book theorizes how social context becomes evident on the surface of events and analyzes the performative dimensions of political experience. The attention to catastrophe allows for an understanding of how ordinary people contend with normal system operation once it is indistinguishable from system breakdown. Through an array of case studies, the book provides an account of change as it is experienced, negotiated, and resisted in specific settings that define a society’s capacity for political action.