{"product_id":"imagined-sovereignties-the-power-of-the-people-and-other-myths-of-the-modern-age-paperback-9781107533844","title":"Imagined Sovereignties; The Power of the People and Other Myths of the Modern Age (Paperback \/ softback) 9781107533844","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eImagined Sovereignties\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Power of the People and Other Myths of the Modern Age\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eImagined Sovereignties provokes new ways of imagining popular politics by critically examining the idea of 'the power of the people'.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eKevin Olson (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781107533844, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 28 September 2017\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e229 pages, 5 b\/w illus.\u003cbr\u003e23 x 15.3 x 1.4 cm, 0.36 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'In the age of globalized governance, notions of popular sovereignty become increasingly problematic, but remain hotly disputed. Drawing on acute readings and broad historical comparisons, Kevin Olson has reconstructed what he calls 'folk foundationalism' as a plastic fantasy, albeit one that has immense historical repercussions through its 'inciting' to discourse and action and, therefore, its material normativity. This critique initially produces embarrassment, but in the end it liberates the political imagination. It is both very timely and remarkably original.' Etienne Balibar, Columbia University, New York\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eMovements 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e1. Imagining politics\u003cbr\u003e 2. 'Sovereignty is an artificial soul' - Ernesto Laclau and Benedict Anderson in dialogue\u003cbr\u003e 3. How do we write a history of normative practices? - Castoriadis, Taylor, Foucault\u003cbr\u003e 4. The problem of the people in Enlightenment France - a short genealogy of political collectivity\u003cbr\u003e 5. Chimeras of political identity - intermediate reflections on the pathways of political imagination\u003cbr\u003e 6. Sovereign imaginaries of the Revolutionary Caribbean\u003cbr\u003e 7. Conscripted by modernity? - imagining sovereignty in the wake of colonialism\u003cbr\u003e 8. Imagining the power of the people - critical reflections on the sovereignties of our time.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Political science \u0026amp; theory [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Political science \u0026amp; theory\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Political%20science%20\u0026amp;%20theory%20%5BJPA%5D%22\"\u003eJPA\u003c\/a\u003e], Social \u0026amp; political philosophy [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Social \u0026amp; political philosophy\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Social%20\u0026amp;%20political%20philosophy%20%5BHPS%5D%22\"\u003eHPS\u003c\/a\u003e], Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Revolutions,%20uprisings,%20rebellions%20%5BHBTV%5D%22\"\u003eHBTV\u003c\/a\u003e], Social \u0026amp; cultural history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Social \u0026amp; cultural history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Social%20\u0026amp;%20cultural%20history%20%5BHBTB%5D%22\"\u003eHBTB\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45912956895512,"sku":"9781107533844","price":22.77,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781107533844i_5678087a-a54e-4a08-a593-b96b787220d4.jpg?v=1696755261","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/imagined-sovereignties-the-power-of-the-people-and-other-myths-of-the-modern-age-paperback-9781107533844","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}