02815nam 22006253u 450 991095407950332120251106210021.00-7391-9959-5(CKB)3710000000413187(EBL)2051666(OCoLC)909369954(SSID)ssj0001481699(PQKBManifestationID)12566161(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001481699(PQKBWorkID)11500901(PQKB)11608826(MiAaPQ)EBC2051666(EXLCZ)99371000000041318720151026d2015|||| u|| |engur|n|---|||||txtccrDecolonizing Democracy Intersections of Philosophy and Postcolonial TheoryLexington Books20151 online resource (190 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-7391-9958-7 0-7391-9957-9 ""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""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 rDemocracy -- PhilosophyPostcolonialismDemocracyPhilosophyPostcolonialismPolitical ScienceHILCCLaw, Politics & GovernmentHILCCPolitical Theory of the StateHILCCDemocracy -- Philosophy.Postcolonialism.DemocracyPhilosophy.Postcolonialism.Political ScienceLaw, Politics & GovernmentPolitical Theory of the State321.8Güven Ferit1966-1526413AU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910954079503321Decolonizing Democracy4450243UNINA