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Decolonizing democracy: power in a solid state

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Global critical Caribbean thoughtPublication details: Rowman & Littlefield International 2016 LondonDescription: viii, 241 p. Includes bibliography and indexISBN:
  • 9781783487066
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 321.8 S2D3
Summary: Democracy is the apparent motor of globalization, binding together ideas and institutions such as citizenship, human rights, race, the free market, multiculturalism, development, politics, and the economy. This book looks to overturn this dogma and demonstrate that ‘liberal’ democracy encrypts and naturalizes the horrors of capitalism and coloniality, while denying true or radical democracy, principally through constitutions and constitutional theory. Ricardo Sanín-Restrepo turns to the colonized, the marginalized, the creolized, and creates two novel concepts of politics, the “hidden people” and the “decryption of power” to reach a politics through and of radical democracy. The book shows that democracy is the only space of proper politics and the essential opposition of colonization and power as potestas. Sanín-Restrepo connects post-structuralism, subaltern studies, critical legal studies, decolonial studies, and the Caribbean thought to muster the necessary theoretical tools to propose new grounds to decrypt the semblance of democracy that is liberalism and thus to demonstrate that democracy, far from being the standardized rule of the majority, a simple process or an institution, is the true being in the world and of the world. https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781783487066
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Coloniality: Decrypting Power in a Solid State
Chapter 2: First Definition of Democracy: The Hidden People as the Dark Energy of Power
Chapter 3: Difference and Simulacra: The Poisoned Gift of Platonism
Chapter 4: The Plastic Soul of Democracy: Power Between Potentia, Potestas, and Actuality
Chapter 5: The Phantom Pain of Civilization: Against Negri´s Understanding of Spinoza
Bibliography
Index

Democracy is the apparent motor of globalization, binding together ideas and institutions such as citizenship, human rights, race, the free market, multiculturalism, development, politics, and the economy. This book looks to overturn this dogma and demonstrate that ‘liberal’ democracy encrypts and naturalizes the horrors of capitalism and coloniality, while denying true or radical democracy, principally through constitutions and constitutional theory.
Ricardo Sanín-Restrepo turns to the colonized, the marginalized, the creolized, and creates two novel concepts of politics, the “hidden people” and the “decryption of power” to reach a politics through and of radical democracy. The book shows that democracy is the only space of proper politics and the essential opposition of colonization and power as potestas. Sanín-Restrepo connects post-structuralism, subaltern studies, critical legal studies, decolonial studies, and the Caribbean thought to muster the necessary theoretical tools to propose new grounds to decrypt the semblance of democracy that is liberalism and thus to demonstrate that democracy, far from being the standardized rule of the majority, a simple process or an institution, is the true being in the world and of the world.

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