LEADER 02861nam 22006373u 450 001 9910814134803321 005 20230124193034.0 010 $a0-7391-9959-5 035 $a(CKB)3710000000413187 035 $a(EBL)2051666 035 $a(OCoLC)909369954 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001481699 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12566161 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001481699 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11500901 035 $a(PQKB)11608826 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC2051666 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000413187 100 $a20151026d2015|||| u|| | 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aDecolonizing Democracy$b[electronic resource] $eIntersections of Philosophy and Postcolonial Theory 210 $cLexington Books$d2015 215 $a1 online resource (190 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-7391-9958-7 311 $a0-7391-9957-9 327 $a""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Introduction""; ""1 The Genealogy of Democracy""; ""2 Foucault, Bio-disciplinary Power, and a???Cogitological Powera???""; ""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"" 330 $aDecolonizing Democracy: Intersections of Philosophy and Postcolonial Theory analyzes the concept and the discourse of democracy. Ferit Gu?ven 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 606 $aDemocracy -- Philosophy 606 $aPostcolonialism 606 $aDemocracy$xPhilosophy 606 $aPostcolonialism 606 $aPolitical Science$2HILCC 606 $aLaw, Politics & Government$2HILCC 606 $aPolitical Theory of the State$2HILCC 615 4$aDemocracy -- Philosophy. 615 4$aPostcolonialism. 615 0$aDemocracy$xPhilosophy 615 0$aPostcolonialism 615 7$aPolitical Science 615 7$aLaw, Politics & Government 615 7$aPolitical Theory of the State 676 $a321.8 700 $aGu?ven$b Ferit$01526413 702 $aGčuven$b Ferit 801 0$bAU-PeEL 801 1$bAU-PeEL 801 2$bAU-PeEL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910814134803321 996 $aDecolonizing Democracy$93985843 997 $aUNINA