Democracy in Crisis: Violence, Alterity, Community

Author:   Stella Gaon ,  Bethan Hirst
Publisher:   Manchester University Press
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9780719079238


Pages:   320
Publication Date:   07 January 2010
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Stella Gaon ,  Bethan Hirst
Publisher:   Manchester University Press
Imprint:   Manchester University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.522kg
ISBN:  

9780719079238


ISBN 10:   0719079233
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   07 January 2010
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Editor’s introduction Part I Alterity as a crisis for democracy 1. ‘Don’t blame me!’ Seriality and the responsibility of voters – Robert Bernasconi 2. Sovereignty, property, and the life world: 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 Povinelli. 6. Humanitarianism and the representation of alterity: the aporias and prospects of cosmopolitan visuality – Fuyuki Kurasawa Part II 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 a politics of com-passion – Dorota Glowacka 10. Meditations on turning toward violently dead – Sharon Rosenberg 11. Democracy, accountability and disruption – Rita Dhamoon 12. Dissensus, ethics, and the politics of democracy – Ewa Plonowska Ziarek -- .

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Stella Gaon is Associate Professor of Political Science at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax (Canada). -- .

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