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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Kaituhi matua: Cruikshank, Barbara (Author)
Hōputu: Licensed eBooks
Reo:Ingarihi
I whakaputaina: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press [1999]
Rangatū:Cornell paperbacks
Urunga tuihono:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctvv4126k
Rārangi ihirangi:
  • 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.