Grieving Democracy

Navigating the Loss of Affect

AvPaulina Tambakaki

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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The book proposes that loss of affect for liberal democracy is a key problem today, in need of closer analysis. Manifested in an unprecedent suspicion of democratic governments, a readiness to elect authoritarian rulers, and a rise in reactionary politics, loss of affect pertains to the way that citizens experience democracy their growing disinvestment from the democratic form of rule. It raises worrying questions, about the survival of democratic values into the twenty-first century, that democratic theorists often tend to either ignore or exaggerate. To navigate these questions, the book argues that grief can be a useful political resource. Understood as a response to loss, grief engages the imagination, opening the way to another, perhaps more caring, experience of democracy. To illuminate the nature of this experience, the book draws on feminist scholarship and work on contemporary culture, where grief and affect intersect.

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Utgivningsdatum:2025-05-31
Mått:156 x 234 x 18 mm
Vikt:440 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:200
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9781399538657

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Paulina Tambakaki is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Westminster, UK.

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In this suggestive and important book, Paulina Tambakaki explores how political theorists treat mourning as an ingredient of democratic politics or as a distraction from the work. She thoughtfully surveys the landscape of prior debates and insightfully proposes a new turn, where grief for the loss of democracy is leashed to the care needed for its recovery.

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Introduction: Democracy, Affect and Grief1. Grief as a Political Resource: The Significance of Agonistic Grief for Navigating Affective Loss2. What is the Matter with Democracy?: Crisis, Resentment and Post-democracy3. Loss of Affect: Disinvestment from Democratic Politics, not Disaffection4. Fantasies of Repair: Critical Theory, Reparative Politics and Affective Loss5. Imagination as a Creative Force: Can We Reimagine the Way We Relate to Democracy? 6. Another Democratic Experience: The Transformative Potential of Grief and CareConclusion: Caring For DemocracyEndnotesBibliographyAcknowledgements