Description
| Product ID: | 9781839767333 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Democracy in the Political Present |
| Subtitle: | A Queer-Feminist Theory |
| Authors: | Author: Isabell Lorey |
| Page Count: | 240 |
| Subjects: | Structuralism and Post-structuralism, Deconstructionism, Structuralism, Post-structuralism, Political science and theory, Political structures: democracy, Political science & theory, Political structures: democracy |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating A queer feminist theory of democracy “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 responsibilities—one which cannot be conceived of without social movements’ past struggles and current practices. |
| Imprint Name: | Verso Books |
| Publisher Name: | Verso Books |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2022-11-15 |
