Decolonizing Democracy : Intersections of Philosophy and Postcolonial Theory

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910814134803321
• Autore: Güven Ferit
• 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 Powerâ€?""; ""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