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This volume explores political culture, especially the catastrophic
elements of the global social order emerging in the twenty-first
century. By emphasizing the texture of political action, the book
theorizes how social context becomes evident on the surface of
events and analyzes the performative dimensions of political
experience. The attention to catastrophe allows for an
understanding of how ordinary people contend with normal system
operation once it is indistinguishable from system breakdown.
Through an array of case studies, the book provides an account of
change as it is experienced, negotiated, and resisted in specific
settings that define a society's capacity for political action.
This volume explores political culture, especially the catastrophic
elements of the global social order emerging in the twenty-first
century. By emphasizing the texture of political action, the book
theorizes how social context becomes evident on the surface of
events and analyzes the performative dimensions of political
experience. The attention to catastrophe allows for an
understanding of how ordinary people contend with normal system
operation once it is indistinguishable from system breakdown.
Through an array of case studies, the book provides an account of
change as it is experienced, negotiated, and resisted in specific
settings that define a society's capacity for political action.
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.
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.
As issues of power and social order loom large in Angelstown, Ralph
Cintron shows how eruptions on the margins of the community are
emblematic of a deeper disorder. In their language and images, the
members of a Latino community in a midsized American city create
self-respect under conditions of disrepect. Cintron's innovative
ethnography offers a beautiful portrait of a struggling
Mexican-American community and shows how people (including
ethnographers) make sense of their lives through cultural forms.
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