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Materializing Democracy : Toward a Revitalized Cultural Politics.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press, 2002Copyright date: ©2002Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (441 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780822383901
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 321.8
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Contents:
Intro -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Materializing Democracy and Other Political Fantasies -- Tocqueville's Democratic Thing -- or, Aristocracy in America -- Legal Slaves and Civil Bodies -- Mexicans in a Material World: From John Wayne's The Alamo to Stand-Up Democracy on the Border -- Souls That Matter: Social Death and the Pedagogy of Democratic Citizenship -- Uncle Sam Needs a Wife: Citizenship and Denegation -- The New Homonormativity: The Sexual Politics of Neoliberalism -- The Genealogy of a Democratic Crush -- Representative/Democracy: The Political Work of Countersymbolic Representation -- Rethinking Space, Rethinking Rights: Literature, Law, and Science -- A Long Foreground: Re-Materializing the History of Native American Relations to Mass Culture -- From Center to Margin: Internationalism and the Origins of Black Feminism -- Democratic Passions: Reconstructing Individual Agency -- Anti-Ideology: Education and Politics as Democratic Practices -- Moralism as Antipolitics -- Works Cited -- Contributors -- Index.
Summary: Investigates the complex histories and conflicting desires that are generally concealed behind the term "democracy.".
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Intro -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Materializing Democracy and Other Political Fantasies -- Tocqueville's Democratic Thing -- or, Aristocracy in America -- Legal Slaves and Civil Bodies -- Mexicans in a Material World: From John Wayne's The Alamo to Stand-Up Democracy on the Border -- Souls That Matter: Social Death and the Pedagogy of Democratic Citizenship -- Uncle Sam Needs a Wife: Citizenship and Denegation -- The New Homonormativity: The Sexual Politics of Neoliberalism -- The Genealogy of a Democratic Crush -- Representative/Democracy: The Political Work of Countersymbolic Representation -- Rethinking Space, Rethinking Rights: Literature, Law, and Science -- A Long Foreground: Re-Materializing the History of Native American Relations to Mass Culture -- From Center to Margin: Internationalism and the Origins of Black Feminism -- Democratic Passions: Reconstructing Individual Agency -- Anti-Ideology: Education and Politics as Democratic Practices -- Moralism as Antipolitics -- Works Cited -- Contributors -- Index.

Investigates the complex histories and conflicting desires that are generally concealed behind the term "democracy.".

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