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Article Excerpt
The People Margaret Canovan Cambridge, Polity Press, 2005. 161pp. ISBN 0745628214/0745628222 (pbk.) $41.95
Discourses of 'identity' and 'belonging' are central to most ideologies of political community. Indeed, in order for a community to be constituted as such there must be some underlying understanding of its parameters. A challenge thus arrises when attempting to address a political community as a unified body: how, for example, can we articulate a universalised identity on which the grounds of a particular community is said to be based?
In The People, Margaret Canovan explores the complexities of group identity within political communities by shedding light on the ambiguities of the invocation of 'a people'. A people, Canovan notes, can refer to 'the people as sovereign; peoples as nations, and the people as opposed to the ruling elite ... "people" (without an article) also refers to human beings as such, individuals in general' (p. 2). The challenge, as Canovan...
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