LEADER 03766nam 2200517 450 001 9910136238603321 005 20170814190904.0 010 $a0-19-064867-8 010 $a0-19-060183-3 010 $a0-19-060182-5 035 $a(CKB)3710000000915851 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001584886 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4721647 035 $a(PPN)229852033 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000915851 100 $a20160707h20172017 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aOrdinary democracy $esovereignty and citizenship beyond the neoliberal impasse /$fAli Aslam 210 1$aNew York, NY :$cOxford University Press,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource 311 $a0-19-060181-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aMachine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Idleness is the Problem -- Chapter 2: Out of the Ordinary -- Chapter 3: Inspiring Solidarity -- Chapter 4: Democracy and the State -- Chapter 5: Debt and Sacrifice -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index. 330 $a" While various democratic theorists have looked at particular instances of recent social movements (Occupy or the Arab Spring, for example), none have yet attempted a more general theoretical take on what it is that relates all of these movements and what that running thread can tell us about democratic theory. Ordinary Democracy argues that there is a commonality to these movements as well as a striking lesson about the nature of democracy, sovereignty, agency and solidarity today: in that these movements all highlight the ordinariness of neoliberal regimes and the ways in which citizens find solidarity and a sense of freedom in the marketplace. Aslam contends that neoliberalism is more than a set of policies, ideological principles, or a distinct phase of capitalism -- rather it constitutes the ways in which citizens think about their everyday lives. Conceived as common sense, it also governs what is permitted or forbidden in public discourse (for example, rendering issues of private debt a personal responsibility). Mass movements call attention to the effects of neoliberalism, providing a way to contest its acceptability; in doing so they help to contextualize the impasse that marks a language of civil empowerment and inclusion on one hand, and feelings of powerlessness, diminished agency and impassivity on the other. In Aslam's view, democratic theorists who view participatory agency as offering the most authentic opportunity to satisfy the need for solidarity and freedom minimize the degree to which capitalism satisfies most citizens, as well as the depth of most people's affective attachment to neoliberalism. Looking in particular at Idle No More, Occupy Wall Street, Occupy Sandy, the Egyptian Revolution, and Strike Debt, Aslam takes what may be a more sobering, but still hopeful, view toward the potential of mass movements: to resist the normalization of conceptions of solidarity and citizenship under neoliberalism. "--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aDemocracy$xPhilosophy 606 $aNeoliberalism 606 $aPolitical participation$xSocial aspects 606 $aProtest movements 615 0$aDemocracy$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aNeoliberalism. 615 0$aPolitical participation$xSocial aspects. 615 0$aProtest movements. 676 $a321.8 686 $aPOL007000$aPOL010000$2bisacsh 700 $aAslam$b Ali$01234041 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910136238603321 996 $aOrdinary democracy$92866446 997 $aUNINA