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Decolonizing Democracy - Power in a Solid State (Hardcover)
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Decolonizing Democracy - Power in a Solid State (Hardcover)
Series: Global Critical Caribbean Thought
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Total price: R3,783
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Democracy is the apparent motor of globalization, binding together
ideas and institutions such as citizenship, human rights, race, the
free market, multiculturalism, development, politics and the
economy. This book looks to overturn this dogma and demonstrate
that 'liberal' democracy in fact encrypts and naturalizes the
horrors of capitalism and of coloniality, while denying true or
radical democracy, principally through constitutions and
constitutional theory. Ricardo Sanin-Restrepo turns to the
colonized, the marginalized, the creolized, and creates two novel
concepts of politics, the "hidden people" and the "decryption of
power" to reach a politics through and of radical democracy. The
book shows that democracy is the only space of proper politics and
the essential opposition of colonization and power as potestas.
Sanin-Restrepo connects post-structuralism, subaltern studies,
critical legal studies, de-colonial studies and Caribbean thought
to muster the necessary theoretical tools to propose new grounds to
decrypt the semblance of democracy that is liberalism and thus to
demonstrate that democracy, far from being the standardized rule of
the majority, a simple process or an institution, is the true being
in the world and of the world.
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