Imagined Sovereignties

The Power of the People and Other Myths of the Modern Age

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

AvKevin Olson,Irvine) Olson, Kevin (University of California

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Movements like the Arab Spring, Occupy Wall Street, and the Tea Party embody some of our deepest intuitions about popular politics and 'the power of the people'. They also expose tensions and shortcomings in our understanding of these ideals. We typically see 'the people' as having a special, sovereign power. Despite the centrality of this idea in our thinking, we have little understanding of why it has such importance. Imagined Sovereignties probes the considerable force that 'the people' exercises on our thought and practice. Like the imagined communities described by Benedict Anderson, popular politics is formed around shared, imaginary constructs rooted in our collective imagination. This book investigates these 'imagined sovereignties' in a genealogy traversing the French Enlightenment, the Haitian Revolution, and nineteenth-century Haitian constitutionalism. It problematizes taken-for-granted ideas about popular politics and provokes new ways of imagining the power of the people.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2016-04-15
Mått158 x 235 x 20 mm
Vikt500 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor230
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781107113237

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1. Imagining politics; 2. 'Sovereignty is an artificial soul' - Ernesto Laclau and Benedict Anderson in dialogue; 3. How do we write a history of normative practices? - Castoriadis, Taylor, Foucault; 4. The problem of the people in Enlightenment France - a short genealogy of political collectivity; 5. Chimeras of political identity - intermediate reflections on the pathways of political imagination; 6. Sovereign imaginaries of the Revolutionary Caribbean; 7. Conscripted by modernity? - imagining sovereignty in the wake of colonialism; 8. Imagining the power of the people - critical reflections on the sovereignties of our time.

'Imagined Sovereignties demonstrates the central importance of peoplehood and political imagination to democratic politics. Olson reveals the conceptual and mythological underpinnings of popular politics, not to dispel these myths, but to bring more careful critical attention to how they operate. This is an exemplary work of historically situated democratic theory.' Jason Frank, Cornell University, New York