Post-democracy and gender: new paradoxes and old tensions
24 Apr 2018-Distinktion: Scandinavian Journal of Social Theory (Informa UK Limited)-Vol. 19, Iss: 1, pp 28-46
TL;DR: The notion of post-democracy has become a key notion for describing the current stage of democracy in western societies as mentioned in this paper, although modern democracies still maintain a strong commitment to traditional democratic principles.
Abstract: Colin Crouch’s notion of ‘post-democracy’ has become a key notion for describing the current stage of democracy in western societies. Crouch argues that although modern democracies still maintain t...
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TL;DR: Ewald and Fontana as discussed by the authors proposed a Content Index of Notions Index of Names (CIINN) index of names for the content index of the Course Content Index (CICN).
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TL;DR: In this article, the author argues that universal freedom is always a hypothesis, a story, a political fiction, and that women are excluded from the original contract but incorporated into the new contractual order.
Abstract: In this remarkably original work of political philosophy, one of today's foremost feminist theorist challenges the way contemporary society functions by questioning the standard interpretation of an idea that is deeply embedded in American and British political thought: that our rights and freedoms derive from the social contract explicated by Locke, Hobbes, and Rousseau and interpreted in the United States by the Founding Fathers. The author shows how we are told only half the story of the original contract that establishes modern patriarchy. The sexual contract is ignored and thus men's patriarchal right over women is also glossed over. No attention is paid to the problems that arise when women are excluded from the original contract but incorporated into the new contractual order. One of the main targets of the book is those who try to turn contractarian theory to progressive use, and a major thesis of the book is that this is not possible. Thus those feminists who have looked to a more "proper" contract- one between genuinely equal partners, or one entered into without any coercion- are misleading themselves. In the author's words, "In contract theory universal freedom is always a hypothesis, a story, a political fiction. Contract always generates political right in the forms of domination and subordination." Thus the book is also aimed at mainstream political theorists, and socialist and other critics of contract theory. The author offers a sweeping challenge to conventional understandings- of both left and right- of actual contracts in everyday life: the marriage contract, the employment contract, the prostitution contract, and the new surrogate mother contract. By bringing a feminist perspective to bear on the contradictions and paradoxes surrounding women and contract, and the relation between the sexes, she is able to shed new light on fundamental political problems of freedom and subordination.
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TL;DR: Brown argues that efforts to outlaw hate speech and pornography powerfully legitimize the state: such apparently well-intentioned attempts harm victims further by portraying them as so helpless as to be in continuing need of governmental protection as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: Whether in characterizing Catherine MacKinnon's theory of gender as itself pornographic or in identifying liberalism as unable to make good on its promises, this text pursues a central question: how does a sense of woundedness become the basis for a sense of identity? Brown argues that efforts to outlaw hate speech and pornography powerfully legitimize the state: such apparently well-intentioned attempts harm victims further by portraying them as so helpless as to be in continuing need of governmental protection. "Whether one is dealing with the state, the Mafia, parents, pimps, police, or husbands," writes Brown, "the heavy price of institutionalized protection is always a measure of dependence and agreement to abide by the protector's rules." True democracy, she insists, requires sharing power, not regulation by it; freedom, not protection. Refusing any facile identification with one political position or another, Brown applies her argument to a panoply of topics, from the basis of litigiousness in political life to the appearance on the academic Left of themes of revenge and a thwarted will to power. These and other provocations in contemporary political thought and political li
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"Post-democracy and gender: new para..." refers background in this paper
...In light of this conclusion, I argue that post-democracy acts as a parallel to what feminists within cultural studies call ‘post-feminism’ (Brooks 1997; Genz and Brabon 2009; Gill 2007; McRobbie 2009; Rottenberg 2014)....
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss race-conscious districting in the USA and Canada and the Politics of Inclusion, from a politics of ideas to a Politics of Presence, and discuss loose ends and larger ambitions.
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...I consider these transformations that Crouch describes as an effect of what Michel Foucault has termed neoliberal governmentality (Foucault 2008, 215)....
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...…of the political subject in post-democracy, within which it remains a free, autonomous and sovereign individual although the parameters of its freedom are – as Foucault has argued – defined as entrepreneurial freedom and not, as in liberal tradition, as ‘naturally given’ (Foucault 2008, 241pp.)....
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...As a consequence, (state) politics also explicitly follow market principles: the market has turned into a ‘permanent economic tribunal confronting government’ (Foucault 2008, 247)....
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...For Foucault, neoliberal governmentality is characterized by an economization of the social: the logic of the enterprise is expanded and applied to the whole of society (Foucault 2008, 242pp.)....
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...This endeavour becomes a template for social relations and individual existence (Foucault 2008, 242)....
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