'Presentist democracy is without a people and without nation. Rather than regimes of borders and migration, its borders are sexism and racism, homo- and transphobia, colonialism and extractivism.'
In the midst of the crises and threats to liberal democracy, Isabell Lorey develops a democracy in the present tense; one which breaks open political certainties and linear concepts of progress and growth. Her queer feminist political theory formulates a fundamental critique of masculinist concepts of the people, representation, institutions, and the multitude. In doing so, she unfolds an original concept of a presentist democracy based on care and interrelatedness, on the irreducibility of responsibilities-one which cannot be conceived of without social movements' past struggles and current practices.
| ISBN: | 9781839767333 |
| Publication date: | 15th November 2022 |
| Author: | Isabell Lorey |
| Publisher: | Verso |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 240 pages |
| Genres: |
Structuralism and Post-structuralism Political structures: democracy Political science and theory |