Democracy in crisis Violence, alterity, community.
- Manchester : Manchester University Press, (c)2010.
- 1 online resource (321 pages)
- Perspectives on Democratic Practice .
Includes bibliographies and index.
9780719079238; 9780719079238; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of contributors; Introduction: Stella Gaon; Part 1: Alterity as a crisis for democracy; 1 'Don't blame me!' Seriality and the responsibility of voters: Robert Bernasconi; 2 Sovereignty, property and thelifeworld: 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 The brackets of recognition:recognition, espionage, camouflage: Elizabeth A. Povinelli. 6 Humanitarianism and the representation of alterity: the aporias and prospects of cosmopolitan visuality: Fuyuki KurasawaPart 2: Alterity as a provocation to democracy; 7 Alterity as democracy-to-come: Stella Gaon; 8 The ends of democracy: who, we? Catherine Kellogg; 9 From fear to democracy: towards apolitics 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 Płonowska Ziarek; Index.
This volume explores the political implications of violence and alterity (radical difference) for the practice of democracy, and reformulates the possibility of community that democracy is said to entail. Most significantly, contributors intervene in traditional democratic theory by boldly contesting the widely-held assumption that increased inclusion, tolerance and cultural recognition are democracy's sufficient conditions. Rather than simply inquiring how best to expand the 'demos', they investigate how claims to self-determination, identity and sovereignty are a problem for democracy and ho.