Democracy in the Political Present: A Queer-Feminist Theory
Author: Lorey, Isabell
ISBN: 9781839767333
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Year first published: 31 Jan 2023
Pages: 240 Format: Paperback / softback
'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.
ISBN: 9781839767333
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Year first published: 31 Jan 2023
Pages: 240 Format: Paperback / softback
'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.
