Häftad, Engelska, 2023

Democratic Arts of Mourning

Political Theory and Loss

Av Alexander Keller Hirsch, David W. McIvor

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The Democratic Arts of Mourning reflects on the variety of ways in which mourning affects political and social life. In recent decades, political theorists have increasingly examined and explored the themes of loss, grief, and mourning. With an introduction that contextualizes the turn to mourning in previous scholarship on the politics of tragedy, this book includes twelve chapters that clarify the intertwinement between politics and mourning. The chapters are organized into five thematic sections that each shed light on how democratic societies relate to loss, grief, suffering, and death. Collectively, the chapters explore the concept of mourning and its relationship to civic rituals, memorials, taboos, social movements, and popular music. Chapters examine how social groups defend their members against experiences of grief or mourning, or how poetic expressions—such as ancient Greek tragedy—can address the catastrophes of human life. Other chapters explore the politics of symbols and bodies, and how they can become fraught objects that stand in for a society’s undigested—unmourned—losses and absences. The book concludes with an interview with Bonnie Honig, whose own work on mourning has been deeply influential in contemporary political theory.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum: 2023-04-06
Mått: 154 x 223 x 19 mm
Vikt: 376 g
Format: Häftad
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 252
Förlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN: 9781498567268

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Alexander Keller Hirsch is associate professor of political science at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks.David W. McIvor is assistant professor of political science at Colorado State University.

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Art and faith traditions across the world have long acknowledged that suffering is a part of life and have offered ways of mourning loss, finding solace, and achieving reconciliation. Episodes and histories of human suffering have also provoked searching questions about the nature of agency, the limits of responsibility, and the redemptive power of public remembrance which continue to inform (and sometimes inflame) political debate and discussion. The Democratic Arts of Mourning assembles insightful and thought-provoking analyses of the significance of mourning for democratic politics from a variety of theoretical standpoints (e.g., Freud, Adorno, Judith Butler) and in relation to controversies around appropriate public responses to historical injustices and contemporary episodes of profound loss (e.g., 9/11, Charleston’s Mother Emanuel Church massacre). For readers interested in understanding better how social movements coalesce around demands for public acknowledgment of past injustices or present atrocity, how officials facilitate or circumvent the public work of mourning, or how activists and creative artists invite reconsideration of who we are through reflection on what we have suffered (or allowed others to suffer), this volume merits serious and sustained consideration.

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