cam a22 4500 551395966 CHVBK 20201114035840.0 m d cr |n |||||||| 160707s2017 nyua s 000 0 eng d 2016018956 978-0-19-060181-2 (hardback) (SERSOL)ssj0001739951 (WaSeSS)ssj0001739951 DLC eng DLC DLC WaSeSS rda JC423 .A776 2017 321.8 23 POL007000 POL010000 bisacsh Aslam Ali author Ordinary democracy sovereignty and citizenship beyond the neoliberal impasse Ali Aslam New York, NY Oxford University Press [2017] 1 online resource (xi, 209 pages) illustrations text txt rdacontent/eng computer c rdamedia/eng online resource cr rdacarrier/eng Machine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Idleness is the Problem -- Chapter 2: Out of the Ordinary -- Chapter 3: Inspiring Solidarity -- Chapter 4: Democracy and the State -- Chapter 5: Debt and Sacrifice -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index. Lizenzbedingungen können den Zugang einschränken. License restrictions may limit access. " While various democratic theorists have looked at particular instances of recent social movements (Occupy or the Arab Spring, for example), none have yet attempted a more general theoretical take on what it is that relates all of these movements and what that running thread can tell us about democratic theory. Ordinary Democracy argues that there is a commonality to these movements as well as a striking lesson about the nature of democracy, sovereignty, agency and solidarity today: in that these movements all highlight the ordinariness of neoliberal regimes and the ways in which citizens find solidarity and a sense of freedom in the marketplace. Aslam contends that neoliberalism is more than a set of policies, ideological principles, or a distinct phase of capitalism -- rather it constitutes the ways in which citizens think about their everyday lives. Conceived as common sense, it also governs what is permitted or forbidden in public discourse (for example, rendering issues of private debt a personal responsibility). Mass movements call attention to the effects of neoliberalism, providing a way to contest its acceptability; in doing so they help to contextualize the impasse that marks a language of civil empowerment and inclusion on one hand, and feelings of powerlessness, diminished agency and impassivity on the other. In Aslam's view, democratic theorists who view participatory agency as offering the most authentic opportunity to satisfy the need for solidarity and freedom minimize the degree to which capitalism satisfies most citizens, as well as the depth of most people's affective attachment to neoliberalism. Looking in particular at Idle No More, Occupy Wall Street, Occupy Sandy, the Egyptian Revolution, and Strike Debt, Aslam takes what may be a more sobering, but still hopeful, view toward the potential of mass movements: to resist the normalization of conceptions of solidarity and citizenship under neoliberalism. "-- "While various democratic theorists have looked at particular instances of recent social movements (Occupy or the Arab Spring, for example), none have yet attempted a more general theoretical take on what it is that relates all of these movements (if there is a thread), and what that running thread can tell us about democratic theory. This book argues that there is a commonality to these movements as well as a striking lesson about the nature of democracy, sovereignty, agency and solidarity today: in that these movements all highlight the ordinariness of neoliberal regimes and the ways in which citizens find solidarity and a sense of freedom in the marketplace. Aslam argues that neoliberalism is more than a set of policies, ideological principles, or a distinct phase of capitalism--rather it constitutes the ways in which citizens think about their everyday lives. Conceived as common sense, it also governs what is permitted or forbidden in public discourse. Mass movements call attention to the effects of neoliberalism, providing a way to contest its acceptability; in doing so they help to contextualize the impasse that marks a language of civil empowerment and inclusion on one hand, and feelings of powerlessness, diminished agency and impassivity on the other. Looking in particular at Idle No More, Occupy Wall Street, Occupy Sandy, the Egyptian Revolution, and Strike Debt, Aslam takes what may be a more sobering, but still hopeful, view toward the potential of mass movements: to resist the normalization of conceptions of solidarity and citizenship under neoliberalism"-- Democracy Philosophy Neoliberalism Political participation Social aspects Protest movements POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy bisacsh POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory bisacsh https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190601812.001.0001/acprof-9780190601812 Uni Bern: Volltext BK020053 XK020053 XK020000 Oxford Scholarship Online Political Science Oxford Scholarship Online E-Books von 360MarcUpdates IDSBB B405 B405 405VT IDSBB 100 1- Aslam Ali author IDSBB 856 40 https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190601812.001.0001/acprof-9780190601812 Uni Bern: Volltext SWISSBIB 483108421