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  title info:
    title: Imagined sovereignties
    sub title: the power of the people and other myths of the modern age
  name:
    name part: Olson, Kevin
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2016
    copyright date: 2016
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 219 pages ; 24 cm
  abstract: "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"--
  table of contents: 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.
  note: Kevin Olson, University of California, Irvine.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Political participation
    topic: Social aspects
  subject:
    topic: Identity politics
  subject:
    topic: Group identity
    topic: Political aspects
  subject:
    topic: Sovereignty
  subject:
    topic: Group identity
    topic: Political aspects
  subject:
    topic: Identity politics
  subject:
    topic: Political participation
    topic: Social aspects
  subject:
    topic: Sovereignty
  classification: JF799 .O54 2016
  classification: 323/.042
  identifier: 9781107113237
  identifier: 1107113237
  identifier: 2015051222
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 160301
    record change date: 20160606154925.0
    record identifier: in00003780720
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng