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Imagined Sovereignties - The Power of the People and Other Myths of the Modern Age (Paperback)
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Imagined Sovereignties - The Power of the People and Other Myths of the Modern Age (Paperback)
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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.
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