{"product_id":"democracy-and-event-9781032281582","title":"Democracy and Event","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eCatastrophes unsettle our safe places within the world. As such, they provide an interesting site to analyze the intersection of our affective and political lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBringing radical democratic thinking, affect theory, psychoanalysis, and discursive analysis to bear on contemporary catastrophic events, \u003ci\u003eDemocracy and Event \u003c\/i\u003epresents a fresh perspective on the study of affect and its impact on democratic sensibilities and practices. Situated in different countries with differing institutional histories and cultures  the Grenfell Tower fire in London, England (2017); the SARS epidemic in Toronto, Canada (2003); the Parkland shooting in Florida (2018); the early days of the COVID-19 crisis and the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, USA (2020)  Elaine Stavro interprets the rhetoric, discourse, and affective communication of politicians and passionate protestors. She examines their linkages to well-established organizations informed by democratic ideals, as well as the conte\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of figures\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 Theoretical perspectives on democratic sensibilities and democratic practices\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVital materialism: ontologies of lively materiality countering social determinism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePopulist thinkers: turning to the political and away from the social\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNavigating novelty and indeterminacy – embodied creativity versus the post-human\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRethinking emotion and affect: challenging autonomous affect\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe monstrous event\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2 Engendering fear and racism during the SARS epidemic: a defi cit in deliberative thinking\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe event: the impact of fear\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDebates that frame this catastrophe\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAbjection: scapegoating the Chinese\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Orientalist thesis – essentializing the \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eAsian – linking negative affect to Social \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eOthering\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMedia management of the crisis – the pairing of the war on terror and bioterror\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRepresentations and responses to the SARS crisis: China versus Toronto\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom fear to disbelief: challenging WHO’s travel advisory\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAttending to emotion’s material effects\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSARS effects on deliberation and democratic decision-making\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eToward a more reliable account of the catastrophe: material conditions – mega slums and global livestock production\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePost-SARS\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3 Burning inferno: the Grenfell Tower fire in the era of austerity\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe event: affective representations overwhelm facts\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConfronting vital materialists’ and populists’ thinking on affect and emotion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSocial weightlessness\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFostering solidarity: a tangled event that produced multiple narratives and feelings\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChallenging earlier narratives – the case for investigative journalism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eApplying vital materialism to the event: confederate agency and human responsibility\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA new collective subject fails to emerge\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAttending to larger frames of reference\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe effects of Brexit – ignoring economic interests\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe power of neoliberal governing strategies – the demise of democratic practices\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4 Students’ passionate participation: a democratic movement in the digital age\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe terrifying event\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe public sphere in the age of internet and social \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003emedia – the prospect for democratic opinion \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eformation\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMOFL’s success: cultivating affective solidarity and \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003epursuing strategic actions\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDifferences in social powers: March for Our Lives versus Black Lives Matter\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCollaboration across differences: practice surmounts theoretical problems\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStriving for a leaderless movement: achievements and compromises\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStrategic actions in the face of a history of defeats\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe government’s response or lack thereof\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGun culture: another impediment to gun control\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInstitutional and cultural differences matter\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5 President Trump’s response to the COVID pandemic: a ective ideology and authoritarian mismanagement\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe turn to facts in a world of fear: a veneer of certainty\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEschewing scientific expertise and journalistic critique\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSocial Othering strategies: blaming the democrats, China, and WHO\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCultivating a divided and uninformed public: the effects of anti-science and anti-expert sentiments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEfforts to consolidate affective solidarity: “we are all in this together” #alonetogether \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTrump’s populism: corporate freedom versus public well-being \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePopulist leadership: the allure of tough talk\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMishandling of COVID: the erosion of democratic procedures\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAddendum\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThinking critically about the pandemic: why were we unprepared?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe promises and perils of the COVID catastrophe\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6 The murder of George Floyd and the meteoric rise of Black Lives Matter: the success of an affectively rich event\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAffective solidarity: the power of the event\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe appearance of Black Lives Matter: a political \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003emovement in the digital age\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSymbolic politics, celebrity support, performative activism – the process of emotional reorientation \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpontaneous affective events – dismantling statutes waiving public debate\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmbiguity of violence: triggering solidarity and undermining support \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe counter-narratives of the alt-right: stoking up fear and loathing \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEmotional reflexivity: the power of reason and good arguments \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTransforming beliefs: raising awareness of systemic racism \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStrategies and ideals of BLM – the complicated path toward instantiating democratic practices\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMoving forward: a case for social democracy or billionaires’ charities?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAddendum\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default 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