Democracy in crisis Violence, alterity, community

Summary: 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.

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ISBN: 9781847792983 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 1847792987 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource (321 p.)
Publisher: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2010.

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General Note:	Multi-User.
Formatted Contents Note:	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.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.