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Book SynopsisThis volume explores the political implications of violence and alterity (radical difference) for the practice of democracy, and reformulates the possibility of community that democracy is said to entail. -- .
Table of ContentsEditor’s introduction
Part I Alterity as a crisis for democracy
1. ‘Don’t blame me!’ Seriality and the responsibility of voters – Robert Bernasconi
2. Sovereignty, property, and the life world: Democracy’s colonization of alterity – Mielle Chandler
3. Narratives of groups that kill other groups – Jacqueline Stevens
4. Technologies of violence and vulnerability – Kelly Oliver
5. The brackets of recognition: Recognition, espionage, camouflage – Elizabeth Povinelli.
6. Humanitarianism and the representation of alterity: the aporias and prospects
of cosmopolitan visuality – Fuyuki Kurasawa
Part II Alterity as a provocation to democracy
7. Alterity as democracy-to-come – Stella Gaon
8. The ends of democracy: who, we? – Catherine Kellogg
9. From fear to democracy: towards a politics of com-passion – Dorota Glowacka
10. Meditations on turning toward violently dead – Sharon Rosenberg
11. Democracy, accountability and disruption – Rita Dhamoon
12. Dissensus, ethics, and the politics of democracy – Ewa Plonowska Ziarek
