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Democracy as Fetish

Democracy as Fetish

Cintron, Ralph

Paperback

Series: Rsa Transdisciplinary Rhetoric, Book 13

General ReferenceGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 0271084863
ISBN13: 9780271084862
Publisher: Penn St Univ Pr
Published: Nov 27 2019
Pages: 248
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

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.

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