Democracy by Julia Paley
In recent decades, powerful institutions have packaged Western democracy for export around the globe. Although Western democracy is grounded in specific historical experiences and cultural assumptions, advocates have generally taken its normative status for granted. So too have most academics. Yet if democracy is broadly understood as government by "the people," it must necessarily differ along with "the people" in question. Just what "the will of the people" is and how it might be realized become questions of pressing importance. Rather than advance alternative definitions of democracy, celebrate alternative democracies, or posit alternatives to democracy, the contributors to this volume focus on the way that specific definitions of democracy are advanced as normative and others eclipsed, and how certain claims to represent "the will of the people" gain currency and others are silenced. While previous scholars of democracy have proposed one definitive model after another, the authors in this work suggest that democracy is by nature an open ended set of questions about the workings of power--questions best engaged through the dialogical processes of fieldwork and ethnographic writing.-
Senses of Place
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Vital Relations
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Global Health in Times of Violence
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Dreaming
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Forces of Compassion
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Artisans and Advocacy in the Global Market
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Bioinsecurity and Vulnerability
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Childhood
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Imperial Formations
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Linking the Histories of Slavery
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Gray Areas
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The Empire of Things
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Nature, Science and Religion
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Historical Ecology
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Walling in and Walling Out
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Regimes of Language
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Timely Assets
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Archaeology & Cultural Resource Management
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American Arrivals
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Cyborgs & Citadels
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Designs and Anthropologies
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The Evolution of Human Life History
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The Global Middle Classes
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Street Economies in the Urban Global South
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Uruk Mesopotamia & Its Neighbors
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Anthropology in the Margins of the State
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History in Person
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Making Alternative Histories
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Indians & Energy: Exploitation and Opportunity in the American Southwest
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The Gender of Globalization
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| ISBN 13 | 9781934691076 |
| ISBN 10 | 1934691070 |
| Title | Democracy |
| Author | Julia Paley |
| Series | School For Advanced Research Advanced Seminar Series |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | SAR Press |
| Year published | 2008-10-30 |
| Number of pages | 280 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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