Democracy in the Political Present - A Queer-Feminist Theory
Verlag | Verso |
Auflage | 2022 |
Seiten | 224 |
Format | 14,2 x 1,6 x 21,3 cm |
Trade Paperback | |
Gewicht | 230 g |
Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
EAN | 9781839767333 |
Bestell-Nr | 83976733UA |
Presentist democracy is without a people and without nation. Rather than regimes of borders and migration, its borders are sexism and racism, homo- and transphobia, colonialism and extractivism.'
In the midst of the crises and threats to liberal democracy, Isabell Lorey develops a democracy in the present tense;one which breaks open political certainties and linear concepts of progress and growth. Her queer feminist political theory formulates a fundamental critique of masculinist concepts of the people, representation, institutions, and the multitude. In doing so, she unfolds an original concept of a presentist democracy based on care and interrelatedness, on the irreducibility of responsibilitiesone which cannot be conceived of without social movements' past struggles and current practices.