978 - 1 - 107 - 11323 - 7 - Imagined Sovereignties : The Power of the People and Other Myths of the Modern Age
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This has been an era of Velvet Revolutions, Tea Parties, and Arab Springs . Ever since the depolarization of the Cold War blocs in 1989, a series of widely celebrated political events has played out across the globe, expanding the scope of democracy, self-determination, and freedom. It has occurred most recently in North Africa and the Middle East, where popular insurgencies have won hard-fought victories against hard-line governments and entrenched dictators. Although quite different from one another in culture, tactics, aims, and circumstance, these upheavals share a family resemblance. They are all seen as democratic movements based in some kind of popular unity and collective action. Meanwhile, restless energies have been at work in the United States as well. The Tea Party movement has cut a large swath through American politics in the early part of the century, seeking to liberate itself from the tyranny of a “socialist” presidential administration. The massive capital backing this libertarian insurgency is somewhat at odds with its claims to be a grassroots movement. Perhaps to relieve these tensions, the movement operates in the name of the patriotic values of the American founding. With similarly popular claims, the Occupy Wall Stree t movement has mobilized against neoliberal corporate fi nance and elite privilege. Framing itself as “the 99 percent,” this movement wears the mantle of popular universalism in opposition to the “1 percent” whose economic and political power require the power of the people as a countervailing opposition.
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تاریخ انتشار 2016