Democracy in the Political Present: A Queer-Feminist Theory
Isabell Lorey, "Democracy in the Political Present: A Queer-Feminist Theory"
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1839767332 | 240 pages | EPUB | 0.34 MB
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1839767332 | 240 pages | EPUB | 0.34 MB
“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.