The Will to Empower : Democratic Citizens and Other Subjects /
How do liberal democracies produce citizens who are capable of governing themselves? In considering this question, Barbara Cruikshank rethinks central topics in political theory, including the relationship between welfare and citizenship, democracy and despotism, and subjectivity and subjection. Dra...
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Ithaca, NY :
Cornell University Press
[1999]
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| Sarja: | Cornell paperbacks
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| Linkit: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctvv4126k |
Sisällysluettelo:
- Introduction: Small Things
- 1. Democratic Subjects
- 2. The Liberal Arts of Governance
- 3. The Will to Empower: Technologies of Citizenship and the War on Poverty
- 4. Revolutions Within: Self-Government and Self-Esteem
- 5. Welfare Queens: Ruling by Number
- Conclusion: Iteration.