ISBN:
978-1-934691-07-6
Language:
English
Pages:
IX, 263 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Edition:
First edition
Series Statement:
School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar Series [83]
Keywords:
Demokratie Demokratisierung
;
Kulturvergleich
;
Politik
;
Ethnologie
;
Gesellschaft
;
Soziale Bewegung
;
Literalität
;
Ethnographie
;
Anthropologie, politische
;
Anden
;
Indien
;
Das Heilige
;
Mosambik
;
Kolumbien
Abstract:
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. (Umschlagtext)
Description / Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction, Julia Paley -- 2. Democracy Otherwise: Struggles over Popular Rule in the Northern Peruvian Andes, David Nugent -- 3. Democracy, Sacred and Everyday: An Ethnographic Case from India, Mukulika Banerjee -- 4. "Govern Yourselves!" Democracy and Carnage in Northern Mozambique, Harry G. West -- 5- International Presence: The Passive Work in Democracy Promotion, Kimberley Coles -- 6. Participatory Democracy, Transparency, and Good Governance in Ecuador: Why Have Social Movement Organizations at All? Julia Paley -- 7. Literacy, Bureaucratic Domination, and Democracy, Akhil Gupta -- 8. Fractured Discourse: Rethinking the Discursivity of States, Carol J. Greenhouse -- 9. Habits of Mind, Deliberative Democracy, and Peace: Conversatorios among Military Officers, Civil Society, and Ex-guerrilleros in Colombia, Jennifer Schirmer -- References -- Index
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 231-255"School for Advanced Research advanced seminar Toward an Anthropology of Democracy, Santa Fe, New Mexico, March 6-10, 2005" (letzte Seite)Enthält 9 Beiträge
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