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Democracy as Fetish (Hardcover)
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Democracy as Fetish (Hardcover)
Series: RSA Series in Transdisciplinary Rhetoric
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Democracy has long been fetishized. Consequently, how we speak
about democracy and what we expect from democratic governance are
at odds with practice. With unflinching resolve, this book probes
the theory of democracy and how the left and right are fascinated
by it. In this innovative multidisciplinary study, Ralph Cintron
provides sustained analysis of our political discourse. He shows
not only how the rhetoric of democracy produces strong desires for
social order, global wealth, and justice but also how these desires
cannot be satisfied. Throughout his discussion, Cintron includes
ethnographic research from fieldwork conducted over the course of
twenty years in the Latino neighborhoods of Chicago, where he
observes both citizens and the undocumented looking to democracy to
fulfill their highest aspirations. Politicians hand out favors to
the elite, developers strong-arm aldermen, and the disenfranchised
have little redress. The problem, Cintron argues, is that the
conditions required to put democracy into practice-territory, a
bordered nation-state, citizens, property-are constituted by
inequality and violence, because there is no inclusivity that does
not also exclude. Drawing on ethnography, economics, political
theory, and rhetorical analysis, Cintron makes his case with
tremendous analytic rigor. This challenge to reassess the
discourses on democracy and to consider democratic politics as
always compromised by oligarchy will be of particular interest to
political and rhetorical theorists.
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