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Neocitizenship : political culture after democracy / Eva Cherniavsky.
LIBRA JK1726 .C43 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cherniavsky, Eva, 1960- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political culture--United States.
- Political culture.
- Neoliberalism.
- Popular culture--Political aspects.
- Popular culture.
- United States.
- Popular culture--Political aspects--United States.
- Citizenship--United States.
- Citizenship.
- Neoliberalism--United States.
- Democracy--United States.
- Democracy.
- Physical Description:
- x, 215 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York University Press, [2017]
- Summary:
- Neocitizenship explores how the constellation of political and economic forces of neoliberalism have arguably dismantled the institutions of modern democratic governance in the U.S. as overtly oligarchical structures of governance replace the operations of representative democracy. Through the lens of popular culture, the book addresses the implications of this crisis for the practices of citizenship. Rather than impugn the abject citizen-subject who embraces her degraded condition, Eva Cherniavsky asks what new or hybrid forms of civic agency emerge as popular sovereignty recedes. Drawing on a range of political theories, Neocitizenship suggests that theory is at a disadvantage in thinking the historical present, since its analytical categories are wrought in the very historical contexts whose dissolution we now seek to comprehend. Cherniavsky thus supplements theory with a focus on popular culture that explores the de-democratization for citizenship in more generative and undecided ways. Tracing the contours of neocitizenship in fiction such as The White Boy Shuffle and Distraction, television shows such as Battlestar Galactica, and the design of American studies abroad, Neocitizenship aims to take the measure of a transformation in process, while evading the twin lures of optimism and regret. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Neocitizenship and critique
- Post-Soviet American studies
- Uncivil society in The white boy shuffle
- Beginnings without end : derealizing the political in Battlestar Galactica
- Unreal
- Refugees from this native dreamland.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-211) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781479880911
- 1479880914
- 9781479893577
- 1479893579
- OCLC:
- 946161365
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