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Book SynopsisHow 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 su
Trade Review"Sophisticated and fresh, Neocitizenship breathes new life into the discourse on neoliberalism. Cherniavskys provocative study of the emergence of new political subjectivities amid the decline of the nation-state as a guarantor of rights and a repository of popular sovereignty will galvanize conversations around neoliberalism, citizenship, and affective economies. This is a book certain to generate a great deal of heat as well as light." -- Cotten Seiler,author of Republic of Drivers: A Cultural History of Automobility in America
"Neocitizenshipis an alarming look into a future in which the neoliberal democratic system has fallen apart." * Inverse.com *
"I highly recommend this book to readers in American studies, cultural studies, and political theory." * H-Net Reviews *
