Democracy in crisis : violence, alterity, community /

This volume explores the political implications of violence and alterity (radical difference) for the very practice of democracy, and reformulates the possibility of community that democracy is said to imply

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Other Authors: Gaon, Stella, Gaon, Stella, 1960-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Manchester : Manchester University Press, c2009
Manchester : Manchester University Press ; Distributed in the U.S. exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, ©2009
Manchester, UK ; New York : New York : Manchester University Press ; Distributed in the USA by Palgrave Macmillan, 2009
Manchester, UK ; New York : New York : Manchester University Press ; Distributed in the United States exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2009
Manchester, UK ; New York : New York : 2009
Series:Perspectives on democratic practice (Manchester, England)
Perspectives on democratic practice
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Table of Contents:
  • Pt. 1 Alterity as a crisis for democracy
  • 1. 'Don't blame me!' Seriality and the responsibility of voters / Robert Bernasconi
  • 2. Sovereignty, property and the lifeworld: democracy's colonization of alterity / Mielle Chandler
  • 3. Narratives of groups that kill other groups / Jacqueline Stevens
  • 4. Technologies of violence and vulnerability / Kelly Oliver
  • 5. brackets of recognition: recognition, espionage, camouflage / Elizabeth Povinelli
  • 6. Humanitarianism and the representation of alterity: the aporias and prospects of cosmopolitan visuality / Fuyuki Kurusawa
  • Pt. 2. Alterity as a provocation to democracy
  • 7. Alterity as democracy-to-come / Stella Gaon
  • 8. ends of democracy: who, we? / Catherine Kellogg
  • 9. From fear to democracy: towards a politics of com-passion / Dorota Glowacka
  • 10. Meditations on turning towards violently dead / Sharon Rosenberg
  • 11. Democracy, accountability and disruption / Rita Kaur Dhamoon
  • 12. Dissensus, ethics and the politics of democracy / Ewa Plonowska Ziarek.
  • Alterity as a crisis for democracy "Don't blame me!" Seriality and the responsibility of voters / Robert Bernasconi ; Sovereignty, property and the lifeworld : democracy's colonization of alterity / Mielle Chandler ; Narratives of groups that kill other groups / Jacqueline Stevens ; Technologies of violence and vulnerability / Kelly Oliver
  • The brackets of recognition : recognition, espionage, camoflage / Elizabeth Povinelli ; Humanitarianism and the representation of alterity : the aporias and prospects of cosmopolitan visuality / Fuyuki Kurasawa
  • Alterity as a provocation to democracy. Alterity as democracy-to-come / Stella Gaon ; The ends of democracy : who, we? / Catherine Kellogg ; From fear to democracy : towards a politics of com-passion / Dorota Glowacka ; Meditations on turning towards violently dead / Sharon Rosenberg ; Democracy, accountability and disruption / Rita Kaur Dhamoon ; Dissensus, ethics and the politics of democracy / Ewa Płonowska Ziarek.