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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814134803321

Autore

Güven Ferit

Titolo

Decolonizing Democracy : Intersections of Philosophy and Postcolonial Theory

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lexington Books, 2015

ISBN

0-7391-9959-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (190 p.)

Disciplina

321.8

Soggetti

Democracy -- Philosophy

Postcolonialism

Democracy - Philosophy

Political Science

Law, Politics & Government

Political Theory of the State

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Introduction""; ""1 The Genealogy of Democracy""; ""2 Foucault, Bio-disciplinary Power, and “Cogitological Power�""; ""3 Democracy and Post/Neo-colonialism""; ""4 Hunger Strikers, Suicide Bombers, and All the other Evil Terrorists""; ""5 Derrida and Democracy-to-Come""; ""Conclusion""; ""Works Cited""; ""Index""; ""About the Author""

Sommario/riassunto

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 increasing democratization of the political space in the last three decades produced an increasing dissatisfaction and alienation from the process of governance, rather than a contentment as one might have expected from ""the rule of the people." Decolonizing Democracy aims to provide a conceptual r