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==Book Description==
''What Is a [[People]]?'' seeks to reclaim “people” as an effective [[political]] [[concept]] by revisiting its uses and abuses over [[time]]. [[Alain]] [[Badiou]] surveys the [[idea]] of a people as a productive force of [[solidarity]] and emancipation and as a [[negative]] tool of categorization and [[suppression]]. Pierre Bourdieu follows with a sociolinguistic [[analysis]] of “popular” and its transformation of [[democracy]], beliefs, songs, and even soups into phenomena with outsized importance. [[Judith]] [[Butler]] calls out those who use [[freedom]] of assembly to create an exclusionary “we,” while Georges Didi-Huberman addresses the problem of summing up a people with totalizing narratives. Sadri Khiari applies an activist’s perspective to the racial hierarchies inherent in ethnic and national [[categories]], and Jacques Rancière comments on the futility of isolating theories of [[populism]] when, as these thinkers have shown, the idea of a “people” is too diffuse to support [[them]]. By engaging this topic [[linguistically]], ethnically, culturally, and ontologically, the voices in this volume [[help]] [[separate]] “people” from its fraught [[associations]] to pursue more vital formulations.
