The Will to Empower : : Democratic Citizens and Other Subjects / / Barbara Cruikshank.
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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Cruikshank, Barbara, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Will to Empower : Democratic Citizens and Other Subjects / Barbara Cruikshank. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019] ©1999 1 online resource (160 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 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 -- Notes -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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. Drawing on theories of power and the creation of subjects, Cruikshank argues that individuals in a democracy are made into self-governing citizens through the small-scale and everyday practices of voluntary associations, reform movements, and social service programs. She argues that our empowerment is a measure of our subjection rather than of our autonomy from power. Through a close examination of several contemporary American "technologies of citizenship"—from welfare rights struggles to philanthropic self-help schemes to the organized promotion of self-esteem awareness—she demonstrates how social mobilization reshapes the political in ways largely unrecognized in democratic theory. Although the impact of a given reform movement may be minor, the techniques it develops for creating citizens far extend the reach of govermental authority. Combining a detailed knowledge of social policy and practice with insights from poststructural and feminist theory, The Will to Empower shows how democratic citizens and the political are continually recreated. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) Philosophy. Political Science & Political History. PHILOSOPHY / Political. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000 9783110536171 https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501733918 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501733918 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501733918/original |
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