UID:
edocfu_9959369659302883
Format:
1 online resource :
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4 black and white illustrations
ISBN:
9781479890880
Content:
How political realities are formed when the government ceases to be a guarantor of rights and democracyNeocitizenship explores how the constellation of political and economic forces of neoliberalism have assailed and arguably dismantled the institutions of modern democratic governance in the U.S. As overtly oligarchical structures of governance replace the operations of representative democracy, the book addresses the implications of this crisis for the practices and imaginaries of citizenship through the lens of popular culture. Rather than impugn the abject citizen-subject who embraces her degraded condition, Eva Cherniavsky asks what new or hybrid forms of civic agency emerge as popular sovereignty recedes. Drawing on a range of political theories, Neocitizenship also suggests that theory is at a disadvantage in thinking the historical present, since its analytical categories are wrought in the very historical contexts whose dissolution we now seek to comprehend. Cherniavsky thus supplements theory with a focus on popular culture that explores the de-democratization for citizenship in more generative and undecided ways. Tracing the contours of neocitizenship in fiction through examples such as The White Boy Shuffle and Distraction, television shows like Battlestar Galactica, and in the design of American studies abroad, Neocitizenship aims to take the measure of a transformation in process, while evading the twin lures of optimism and regret.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Acknowledgments --
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Introduction --
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1. Neocitizenship and Critique --
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2. Post- Soviet American Studies --
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3. Uncivil Society in The White Boy Shuffle --
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4. Beginnings without End --
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5. Unreal --
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6. Refugees from This Native Dreamland --
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Notes --
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Works Cited --
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Index --
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About the Author
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In English.
Language:
English
DOI:
10.18574/9781479890880
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781479890880
