Democracy and Event

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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
political affect studies;catastrophe discourse analysis;social movement theory;deliberative democracy research;authoritarianism critique;digital activism scholarship;affective politics in crisis events