We regard genocidal violence as worse than other sorts of violenceperhaps the worst there is. But what does this say about what we value about the genos on which nations are said to be founded? This is an urgent question for democracies. We value the mode of being in time that anchors us in the past and in the future, that is, among those who have been and those who might yet be. If the genos is a group constituted by this generational time, the demos was invented as the anti-genos, with no criterion of inheritance and instead only occurring according to the interruption of revolutionary time. Insofar as the demos persists, we experience it as a sort of genos, for example, the democratic nation state. As a result, democracies are caught is a bind, disavowing genos-thinking while cherishing the temporal forms of genos-life; they abhor genocidal violence but perpetuate and disguise it. This is the genocide paradox. OByrne traces the problem through our commitment to existential categories from Aristotle to the life taxonomies of Linneaus and Darwin, through anthropologies of kinship that tether us to the social world, the shortfalls of ethical theory, into the history of democratic theory and the defensive tactics used by real existing democracies when it came to defining genocide for the U.N. Genocide Convention. She argues that, although models of democracy all make room for contestation, they fail to grasp its generational structure or acknowledge the generational content of our lives. They cultivate ignorance of the contingency and precarity of the relations that create and sustain us. The danger of doing so is immense. It leaves us unprepared for confronting democracys deficits and its struggle to entertain multiple temporalities. In addition, it leaves us unprepared for understanding the relation between demos and violence, and the ability of good enough citizens to tolerate the slow-burning destruction of marginalized peoples. What will it take to envision an anti-genocidal democracy?
: Aslam Ali : Ordinary Democracy ISBN: 0190601817 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780190601812 : Oxford Academ : : 76030.00 T : . : Written with and for citizens who feel overwhelmed by political and economic forces outside of their control, Ordinary Democracy makes a compelling argument for the adequacy of democratic politics to address the challenges associated with neoliberalism and the growth of emergency politics.
: L. Morales; M. Giugni : Social Capital, Political Participation and Migration in Europe ISBN: 1349318795 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349318797 : Springer : : 79190.00 T : . : How can European societies more effectively promote the active engagement of immigrants and their children in the political and civic life of the countries where they live? This book examines the effect of migrants` individual attributes and resources, their social capital and the political opportunities on their political integration.
: The Differentiated Politicisation of European Governance ISBN: 0367029227 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367029227 : Taylor&Francis : : 46950.00 T : . : The book takes stock of politicisation research on European governance, mapping empirically the growing salience of EU governance, polarisation of opinion and expansion of actors and audiences engaged in monitoring and influencing EU affairs across countries, time and arenas.
: Pieter de Wilde, Ruud Koopmans, Wolfgang Merkel, Oliver Strijbis, Michael Zurn : The Struggle Over Borders: Cosmopolitanism and Communitarianism ISBN: 1108483771 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108483773 : Cambridge Academ : : 82370.00 T : . : This book presents a comprehensive analysis of how economic, cultural and political globalization have transformed democratic politics. Appealing to political scientists, sociologists and international relations scholars, the book is also an accessible introduction to debates on globalization, political conflict and populism for students in these fields.
: Hanagan Nora : Democratic Responsibility: The Politics of Many Hands in America ISBN: 0268106053 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780268106058 : Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) : : 41800.00 T : . : American society is often described as one that celebrates self-reliance and personal responsibility. However, abolitionists, progressive reformers, civil rights activists, and numerous others often held their fellow citizens responsible for shared problems such as economic exploitation and white supremacy. Moreover, they viewed recognizing and responding to shared problems as essential to achieving democratic ideals. In Democratic Responsibility, Nora Hanagan examines American thinkers and activists who offered an alternative to individualistic conceptions of responsibility and puts them in dialogue with contemporary philosophers who write about shared responsibility. Drawing on the political theory and practice of Henry David Thoreau, Jane Addams, Martin Luther King Jr., and Audre Lorde, Hanagan develops a distinctly democratic approach to shared responsibility. Cooperative democracy is especially relevant in an age of globalization and hyperconnectivity, where societies are continually threatened with harmssuch as climate change, global sweatshop labor, and structural racismthat result from the combined interactions of multiple individuals and institutions, and which therefore cannot be resolved without collective action. Democratic Responsibility offers insight into how political actors might confront seemingly intractable problems, and challenges conventional understandings of what commitment to democratic ideals entails. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of political science, especially those who look to the history of political thought for resources that might promote social justice in the present.
: Mackert Jrgen, Wolf Hannah, Turner Bryan S. : The Condition of Democracy: Volume 2: Contesting Citizenship ISBN: 0367745364 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367745363 : Taylor&Francis : : 137810.00 T : . : Democracy and citizenship are conceptually and empirically contested. Against the backdrop of recent and current profound transformations in and of democratic societies, this volume presents and discusses acute contestations, within and beyond national borders and boundaries.
: Klein Bradley S., Nelson Scott G. : Citizenship After Trump: Democracy versus Authoritarianism in a Post-Pandemic Era ISBN: 103221483X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781032214832 : Taylor&Francis : : 148010.00 T : . : In Citizenship after Trump, political theorists Bradley S. Klein and Scott G. Nelson explore the meaning of community in the context of intense political polarization, the surge of far-right nationalism and deepening divisions during the coronavirus pandemic.
: Performing Citizenship ISBN: 0815370644 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780815370642 : Taylor&Francis : : 51030.00 T : . : Presenting empirically rich case studies, leading experts analyze the ways in which the shifting balance of power between nation-state, economy and civil society over the past half century affected social movements in their choice of addressees and repertoires of action.
: Pieter de Wilde, Ruud Koopmans, Wolfgang Merkel, Oliver Strijbis, Michael Zurn : The Struggle Over Borders: Cosmopolitanism and Communitarianism ISBN: 1108718221 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108718226 : Cambridge Academ : : 28510.00 T : . : This book presents a comprehensive analysis of how economic, cultural and political globalization have transformed democratic politics. Appealing to political scientists, sociologists and international relations scholars, the book is also an accessible introduction to debates on globalization, political conflict and populism for students in these fields.
: Indonesian pluralities ISBN: 0268108625 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780268108625 : Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) : : 33440.00 T : . :
The crisis of multiculturalism in the West and the failure of the Arab uprisings in the Middle East have pushed the question of how to live peacefully within a diverse society to the forefront of global discussion. Against this backdrop, Indonesia has taken on a particular importance: with a population of 265 million people (87.7 percent of whom are Muslim), Indonesia is both the largest Muslim-majority country in the world and the third-largest democracy. In light of its return to electoral democracy from the authoritarianism of the former New Order regime, some analysts have argued that Indonesia offers clear proof of the compatibility of Islam and democracy. Skeptics argue, however, that the growing religious intolerance that has marred the country's political transition discredits any claim of the country to democratic exemplarity. Based on a twenty-month project carried out in several regions of Indonesia, Indonesian Pluralities: Islam, Citizenship, and Democracy shows that, in assessing the quality and dynamics of democracy and citizenship in Indonesia today, we must examine not only elections and official politics, but also the less formal, yet more pervasive, processes of social recognition at work in this deeply plural society. The contributors demonstrate that, in fact, citizen ethics are not static discourses but living traditions that co-evolve in relation to broader patterns of politics, gender, religious resurgence, and ethnicity in society.
Indonesian Pluralities offers important insights on the state of Indonesian politics and society more than twenty years after its return to democracy. It will appeal to political scholars, public analysts, and those interested in Islam, Southeast Asia, citizenship, and peace and conflict studies around the world.
Contributors: Robert W. Hefner, Erica M. Larson, Kelli Swazey, Mohammad Iqbal Ahnaf, Marthen Tahun, Alimatul Qibtiyah, and Zainal Abidin Bagir
