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Disorienting Democracy - Politics of emancipation (Paperback)
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Disorienting Democracy - Politics of emancipation (Paperback)
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Drawing on recent developments in continental political thought
'Disorienting Democracy' rethinks democracy as a practice that can
be used to counter the increasing poverty, inequality and
insecurity that mark our contemporary era. In answer to concerns
that the contemporary left is not strong enough for these so-called
times of crisis this book argues that the left must urgently return
to strongly redistributive policies but that this alone is not
enough. To bring lasting change it must continually work to
untangle its longstanding emancipatory ideals from the dominatory
tendencies that have undermined and weakened it throughout the 20th
century. In response, this book argues that the work of Jacques
Ranciere is key. Countering domination with a resolute assertion of
the capacities of all he gives us a radical politics of
emancipation that emerges through subjects who refuse to know their
place. In appropriating alternative ways of living they disidentify
with everyday consensus, rupturing and subverting our unequal order
to force alternatives onto the agenda. Juxtaposing Ranciere with
other thinkers from Judith Butler to Jacques Derrida, Woodford
draws out the practical implications of Ranciere's work for our
current time. She develops dissensual practices that provoke us to
not just assert that another world is possible, but to bring about
that other world today. Challenging what it means to do political
philosophy, rethinking the role of critical theory, ethics,
education, literature and aesthetics for democracy, and rejecting
the longstanding divide between theory and activism, this book will
be of particular interest to graduates, scholars and activists.
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