Feeling Democracy

Emotional Politics in the New Millennium

Sarah Tobias, Arlene Stein (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

250 Seiten

2024
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-1-9788-3545-0 (ISBN)

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Cultural critic Lauren Berlant wrote that “politics is always emotional,” and her words hold especially true for politics in the twenty-first century. From Obama to Trump, from Black Lives Matter to the anti-abortion movement, politicians and activists appeal to hope, fear, anger, and pity, all amplified by social media.

The essays in Feeling Democracy examine how both reactionary and progressive politics are driven largely by emotional appeals to the public. The contributors in this collection cover everything from immigrants’ rights movements to white nationalist rallies to show how solidarities forged around gender, race, and sexuality become catalysts for a passionate democratic politics. Some essays draw parallels between today’s activist strategies and the use of emotion in women-led radical movements from the 1960s and 1970s, while others expand the geographic scope of the collection by considering Asian decolonial politics and Egyptian pro-democracy protests.

Incorporating scholarship from fields as varied as law, political science, philosophy, psychoanalysis, and history, Feeling Democracy considers how emotional rhetoric in politics can be a double-edged sword—often wielded by authoritarian populists who seek to undermine democracy but sometimes helping to bring about a genuine renewal of participatory democracy.

SARAH TOBIAS is executive director of the Institute for Research on Women at Rutgers University and affiliate faculty in the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies department. She is the co-editor of Trans Studies: The Challenge to Hetero/Homo Normativites and Perils of Populism (Rutgers University Press). ARLENE STEIN is distinguished professor of sociology at Rutgers University. She is the author or editor of nine books, including Unbound: Transgender Men and the Remaking of Identity and The Stranger Next Door: The Story of a Small Community’s Battle Over Sex, Faith and Civil Rights.

Introduction - Sarah Tobias and Arlene Stein
Chapter 1: Social Movements and Emotion Cultures: Learning from the Undocumented Immigrants’ Movement - Kathy Abrams
Chapter 2: “The Women of Egypt are a Red Line”: Anger and Women’s Collective Action - Nermin Allam
Chapter 3: Our Paranoid Politics - Noëlle McAfee
Chapter 4: The Political Branding of COVID-19 - Ciara Torres-Spelliscy
Chapter 5: Towards a Decolonial Democracy: Rageful Hope in the 1961 and 1972 Afro-Asian Women’s Conferences - Kirin Gupta
Chapter 6: “The Kind of World We Wanted to Be In”: “Protocol Feminism” and Participatory Democracy in Intersectional Consciousness-Raising Groups - Ileana Nachescu
Acknowledgments
Notes on Contributors
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	29.05.2024
Reihe/Serie	The Feminist Bookshelf: Ideas for the 21st Century
Co-Autor	Kathryn Abrams, Nermin Allam, Kirin Gupta
Zusatzinfo	0 images
Verlagsort	New Brunswick NJ
Sprache	englisch
Maße	127 x 203 mm
Gewicht	254 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-9788-3545-0 / 1978835450
ISBN-13	978-1-9788-3545-0 / 9781978835450
Zustand	Neuware