Democracy and Event
Democracy and Event
The Promise and Perils of Catastrophe
Stavro, Elaine
Taylor & Francis Ltd
11/2023
190
Mole
Inglês
9781032281582
15 a 20 dias
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List of figures
Acknowledgments
1 Theoretical perspectives on democratic sensibilities and democratic practices
Vital materialism: ontologies of lively materiality countering social determinism
Populist thinkers: turning to the political and away from the social
Navigating novelty and indeterminacy - embodied creativity versus the post-human
Rethinking emotion and affect: challenging autonomous affect
The monstrous event
2 Engendering fear and racism during the SARS epidemic: a defi cit in deliberative thinking
The event: the impact of fear
Debates that frame this catastrophe
Abjection: scapegoating the Chinese
The Orientalist thesis - essentializing the Asian - linking negative affect to Social Othering
Media management of the crisis - the pairing of the war on terror and bioterror
Representations and responses to the SARS crisis: China versus Toronto
From fear to disbelief: challenging WHO's travel advisory
Attending to emotion's material effects
SARS effects on deliberation and democratic decision-making
Toward a more reliable account of the catastrophe: material conditions - mega slums and global livestock production
Post-SARS
3 Burning inferno: the Grenfell Tower fire in the era of austerity
The event: affective representations overwhelm facts
Confronting vital materialists' and populists' thinking on affect and emotion
Social weightlessness
Fostering solidarity: a tangled event that produced multiple narratives and feelings
Challenging earlier narratives - the case for investigative journalism
Applying vital materialism to the event: confederate agency and human responsibility
A new collective subject fails to emerge
Attending to larger frames of reference
The effects of Brexit - ignoring economic interests
The power of neoliberal governing strategies - the demise of democratic practices
4 Students' passionate participation: a democratic movement in the digital age
The terrifying event
The public sphere in the age of internet and social media - the prospect for democratic opinion formation
MOFL's success: cultivating affective solidarity and pursuing strategic actions
Differences in social powers: March for Our Lives versus Black Lives Matter
Collaboration across differences: practice surmounts theoretical problems
Striving for a leaderless movement: achievements and compromises
Strategic actions in the face of a history of defeats
The government's response or lack thereof
Gun culture: another impediment to gun control
Institutional and cultural differences matter
5 President Trump's response to the COVID pandemic: a ective ideology and authoritarian mismanagement
The turn to facts in a world of fear: a veneer of certainty
Eschewing scientific expertise and journalistic critique
Social Othering strategies: blaming the democrats, China, and WHO
Cultivating a divided and uninformed public: the effects of anti-science and anti-expert sentiments
Efforts to consolidate affective solidarity: "we are all in this together" #alonetogether
Trump's populism: corporate freedom versus public well-being
Populist leadership: the allure of tough talk
Mishandling of COVID: the erosion of democratic procedures
Addendum
Thinking critically about the pandemic: why were we unprepared?
The promises and perils of the COVID catastrophe
6 The murder of George Floyd and the meteoric rise of Black Lives Matter: the success of an affectively rich event
Affective solidarity: the power of the event
The appearance of Black Lives Matter: a political movement in the digital age
Symbolic politics, celebrity support, performative activism - the process of emotional reorientation
Spontaneous affective events - dismantling statutes waiving public debate
Ambiguity of violence: triggering solidarity and undermining support
The counter-narratives of the alt-right: stoking up fear and loathing
Emotional reflexivity: the power of reason and good arguments
Transforming beliefs: raising awareness of systemic racism
Strategies and ideals of BLM - the complicated path toward instantiating democratic practices
Moving forward: a case for social democracy or billionaires' charities?
Addendum
Conclusion
Index
Acknowledgments
1 Theoretical perspectives on democratic sensibilities and democratic practices
Vital materialism: ontologies of lively materiality countering social determinism
Populist thinkers: turning to the political and away from the social
Navigating novelty and indeterminacy - embodied creativity versus the post-human
Rethinking emotion and affect: challenging autonomous affect
The monstrous event
2 Engendering fear and racism during the SARS epidemic: a defi cit in deliberative thinking
The event: the impact of fear
Debates that frame this catastrophe
Abjection: scapegoating the Chinese
The Orientalist thesis - essentializing the Asian - linking negative affect to Social Othering
Media management of the crisis - the pairing of the war on terror and bioterror
Representations and responses to the SARS crisis: China versus Toronto
From fear to disbelief: challenging WHO's travel advisory
Attending to emotion's material effects
SARS effects on deliberation and democratic decision-making
Toward a more reliable account of the catastrophe: material conditions - mega slums and global livestock production
Post-SARS
3 Burning inferno: the Grenfell Tower fire in the era of austerity
The event: affective representations overwhelm facts
Confronting vital materialists' and populists' thinking on affect and emotion
Social weightlessness
Fostering solidarity: a tangled event that produced multiple narratives and feelings
Challenging earlier narratives - the case for investigative journalism
Applying vital materialism to the event: confederate agency and human responsibility
A new collective subject fails to emerge
Attending to larger frames of reference
The effects of Brexit - ignoring economic interests
The power of neoliberal governing strategies - the demise of democratic practices
4 Students' passionate participation: a democratic movement in the digital age
The terrifying event
The public sphere in the age of internet and social media - the prospect for democratic opinion formation
MOFL's success: cultivating affective solidarity and pursuing strategic actions
Differences in social powers: March for Our Lives versus Black Lives Matter
Collaboration across differences: practice surmounts theoretical problems
Striving for a leaderless movement: achievements and compromises
Strategic actions in the face of a history of defeats
The government's response or lack thereof
Gun culture: another impediment to gun control
Institutional and cultural differences matter
5 President Trump's response to the COVID pandemic: a ective ideology and authoritarian mismanagement
The turn to facts in a world of fear: a veneer of certainty
Eschewing scientific expertise and journalistic critique
Social Othering strategies: blaming the democrats, China, and WHO
Cultivating a divided and uninformed public: the effects of anti-science and anti-expert sentiments
Efforts to consolidate affective solidarity: "we are all in this together" #alonetogether
Trump's populism: corporate freedom versus public well-being
Populist leadership: the allure of tough talk
Mishandling of COVID: the erosion of democratic procedures
Addendum
Thinking critically about the pandemic: why were we unprepared?
The promises and perils of the COVID catastrophe
6 The murder of George Floyd and the meteoric rise of Black Lives Matter: the success of an affectively rich event
Affective solidarity: the power of the event
The appearance of Black Lives Matter: a political movement in the digital age
Symbolic politics, celebrity support, performative activism - the process of emotional reorientation
Spontaneous affective events - dismantling statutes waiving public debate
Ambiguity of violence: triggering solidarity and undermining support
The counter-narratives of the alt-right: stoking up fear and loathing
Emotional reflexivity: the power of reason and good arguments
Transforming beliefs: raising awareness of systemic racism
Strategies and ideals of BLM - the complicated path toward instantiating democratic practices
Moving forward: a case for social democracy or billionaires' charities?
Addendum
Conclusion
Index
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political affect studies;catastrophe discourse analysis;social movement theory;deliberative democracy research;authoritarianism critique;digital activism scholarship;affective politics in crisis events
List of figures
Acknowledgments
1 Theoretical perspectives on democratic sensibilities and democratic practices
Vital materialism: ontologies of lively materiality countering social determinism
Populist thinkers: turning to the political and away from the social
Navigating novelty and indeterminacy - embodied creativity versus the post-human
Rethinking emotion and affect: challenging autonomous affect
The monstrous event
2 Engendering fear and racism during the SARS epidemic: a defi cit in deliberative thinking
The event: the impact of fear
Debates that frame this catastrophe
Abjection: scapegoating the Chinese
The Orientalist thesis - essentializing the Asian - linking negative affect to Social Othering
Media management of the crisis - the pairing of the war on terror and bioterror
Representations and responses to the SARS crisis: China versus Toronto
From fear to disbelief: challenging WHO's travel advisory
Attending to emotion's material effects
SARS effects on deliberation and democratic decision-making
Toward a more reliable account of the catastrophe: material conditions - mega slums and global livestock production
Post-SARS
3 Burning inferno: the Grenfell Tower fire in the era of austerity
The event: affective representations overwhelm facts
Confronting vital materialists' and populists' thinking on affect and emotion
Social weightlessness
Fostering solidarity: a tangled event that produced multiple narratives and feelings
Challenging earlier narratives - the case for investigative journalism
Applying vital materialism to the event: confederate agency and human responsibility
A new collective subject fails to emerge
Attending to larger frames of reference
The effects of Brexit - ignoring economic interests
The power of neoliberal governing strategies - the demise of democratic practices
4 Students' passionate participation: a democratic movement in the digital age
The terrifying event
The public sphere in the age of internet and social media - the prospect for democratic opinion formation
MOFL's success: cultivating affective solidarity and pursuing strategic actions
Differences in social powers: March for Our Lives versus Black Lives Matter
Collaboration across differences: practice surmounts theoretical problems
Striving for a leaderless movement: achievements and compromises
Strategic actions in the face of a history of defeats
The government's response or lack thereof
Gun culture: another impediment to gun control
Institutional and cultural differences matter
5 President Trump's response to the COVID pandemic: a ective ideology and authoritarian mismanagement
The turn to facts in a world of fear: a veneer of certainty
Eschewing scientific expertise and journalistic critique
Social Othering strategies: blaming the democrats, China, and WHO
Cultivating a divided and uninformed public: the effects of anti-science and anti-expert sentiments
Efforts to consolidate affective solidarity: "we are all in this together" #alonetogether
Trump's populism: corporate freedom versus public well-being
Populist leadership: the allure of tough talk
Mishandling of COVID: the erosion of democratic procedures
Addendum
Thinking critically about the pandemic: why were we unprepared?
The promises and perils of the COVID catastrophe
6 The murder of George Floyd and the meteoric rise of Black Lives Matter: the success of an affectively rich event
Affective solidarity: the power of the event
The appearance of Black Lives Matter: a political movement in the digital age
Symbolic politics, celebrity support, performative activism - the process of emotional reorientation
Spontaneous affective events - dismantling statutes waiving public debate
Ambiguity of violence: triggering solidarity and undermining support
The counter-narratives of the alt-right: stoking up fear and loathing
Emotional reflexivity: the power of reason and good arguments
Transforming beliefs: raising awareness of systemic racism
Strategies and ideals of BLM - the complicated path toward instantiating democratic practices
Moving forward: a case for social democracy or billionaires' charities?
Addendum
Conclusion
Index
Acknowledgments
1 Theoretical perspectives on democratic sensibilities and democratic practices
Vital materialism: ontologies of lively materiality countering social determinism
Populist thinkers: turning to the political and away from the social
Navigating novelty and indeterminacy - embodied creativity versus the post-human
Rethinking emotion and affect: challenging autonomous affect
The monstrous event
2 Engendering fear and racism during the SARS epidemic: a defi cit in deliberative thinking
The event: the impact of fear
Debates that frame this catastrophe
Abjection: scapegoating the Chinese
The Orientalist thesis - essentializing the Asian - linking negative affect to Social Othering
Media management of the crisis - the pairing of the war on terror and bioterror
Representations and responses to the SARS crisis: China versus Toronto
From fear to disbelief: challenging WHO's travel advisory
Attending to emotion's material effects
SARS effects on deliberation and democratic decision-making
Toward a more reliable account of the catastrophe: material conditions - mega slums and global livestock production
Post-SARS
3 Burning inferno: the Grenfell Tower fire in the era of austerity
The event: affective representations overwhelm facts
Confronting vital materialists' and populists' thinking on affect and emotion
Social weightlessness
Fostering solidarity: a tangled event that produced multiple narratives and feelings
Challenging earlier narratives - the case for investigative journalism
Applying vital materialism to the event: confederate agency and human responsibility
A new collective subject fails to emerge
Attending to larger frames of reference
The effects of Brexit - ignoring economic interests
The power of neoliberal governing strategies - the demise of democratic practices
4 Students' passionate participation: a democratic movement in the digital age
The terrifying event
The public sphere in the age of internet and social media - the prospect for democratic opinion formation
MOFL's success: cultivating affective solidarity and pursuing strategic actions
Differences in social powers: March for Our Lives versus Black Lives Matter
Collaboration across differences: practice surmounts theoretical problems
Striving for a leaderless movement: achievements and compromises
Strategic actions in the face of a history of defeats
The government's response or lack thereof
Gun culture: another impediment to gun control
Institutional and cultural differences matter
5 President Trump's response to the COVID pandemic: a ective ideology and authoritarian mismanagement
The turn to facts in a world of fear: a veneer of certainty
Eschewing scientific expertise and journalistic critique
Social Othering strategies: blaming the democrats, China, and WHO
Cultivating a divided and uninformed public: the effects of anti-science and anti-expert sentiments
Efforts to consolidate affective solidarity: "we are all in this together" #alonetogether
Trump's populism: corporate freedom versus public well-being
Populist leadership: the allure of tough talk
Mishandling of COVID: the erosion of democratic procedures
Addendum
Thinking critically about the pandemic: why were we unprepared?
The promises and perils of the COVID catastrophe
6 The murder of George Floyd and the meteoric rise of Black Lives Matter: the success of an affectively rich event
Affective solidarity: the power of the event
The appearance of Black Lives Matter: a political movement in the digital age
Symbolic politics, celebrity support, performative activism - the process of emotional reorientation
Spontaneous affective events - dismantling statutes waiving public debate
Ambiguity of violence: triggering solidarity and undermining support
The counter-narratives of the alt-right: stoking up fear and loathing
Emotional reflexivity: the power of reason and good arguments
Transforming beliefs: raising awareness of systemic racism
Strategies and ideals of BLM - the complicated path toward instantiating democratic practices
Moving forward: a case for social democracy or billionaires' charities?
Addendum
Conclusion
Index
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