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Queer Democracy - Desire, Dysphoria, and the Body Politic (Hardcover)
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Queer Democracy - Desire, Dysphoria, and the Body Politic (Hardcover)
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Queer Democracy undertakes an interdisciplinary critical
investigation of the centuries-old metaphor of society as a body,
drawing on queer and transgender accounts of embodiment as a
constructive resource for reimagining politics and society. Daniel
Miller argues that this metaphor has consistently expressed a
desire for social and political order, grounded in the social
body's imagined normative shape or morphology. The consistent
result, from the "concord" discourses of the pre-Christian Stoics,
all the way through to contemporary nationalism and populism, has
been the suppression of any dissent that would unmake the social
body's presumed normativity. Miller argues that the conception of
embodiment at the heart of the metaphor is a fantasy, and that
negative social and political reactions to dissent represent
visceral, dysphoric responses to its reshaping of the social body.
He argues that social body's essential queerness, defined by
fluidity and lack of a fixed morphology, spawns queer democracy,
expressed through ongoing social and political practices that aim
to extend liberty and equality to new social domains. Queer
Democracy articulates a new departure for the ongoing development
of theoretical articulations linking queer and trans theory with
political theory. It will appeal to both academic and non-academic
readers engaged in research on political theory, populism, US
religion, gender studies, and queer studies.
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