Sharing Democracy ebook

by Michaele L. Ferguson

Michaele L. Ferguson Social Sciences English

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Michaele L. Ferguson. Oxford University Press (2013). Similar books and articles. Sharing Without Knowing: Collective Identity in Feminist and Democratic Theory. Introduction: "we are all Egypt" - The allure of commonality - Sharing the world in common with others - Imagining the demos: sharing identity in feminist and democratic theory - Politicizing the demos: sharing affect as self-conscious world-building - Pluralizing the demos: sharing agency and the dilemma of democratic exclusion - "This is what democracy. Michaele L. Ferguson - 2007 - Hypatia 22 (4):30-45.

Sharing Democracy book. Ferguson counteracts this tendency by exposing the reasons for the persistent allure of the common. Significant contributions to scholarship on Hannah Arendt and Charles Taylor.

In Sharing Democracy, Michaele L. Ferguson adds another voice to this growing chorus. She argues that too many political philosophers and theorists, even when concerned to accommodate diversity, wind up advocating democratic theories that nevertheless support attitudes hostile to diversity. She traces this failure to an assumption that democracy requires what she calls ‘commonality’. Resting democratic legitimacy on commonality leads to an attempt to establish possible unifying grounds for democratic society or action in incontrovertible facts.

Ferguson Michaele L. (EN). It is frequently assumed that the people must have something in common or else democracy will fail

Ferguson Michaele L.

Ferguson counteracts this tendency by exposing the reasons for the persistent allure of the common

Michaele Ferguson of University of Colorado Boulder, CO (CUB) Read 26. . Ferguson - Sharing without Knowing: Collective Identity in Feminist and Democratic Theory - Hypatia 22:4.

Michaele Ferguson of University of Colorado Boulder, CO (CUB) Read 26 publications Contact Michaele Ferguson. This book offers a genealogy of the development of "neoliberal feminism" in the United States. 1 2 3 4 5. Want to Read. Are you sure you want to remove Sharing democracy from your list? Sharing democracy. by Michaele L. Published 2013 by Oxford University Press in New York. Argues that we should take protests to be paradigmatic of democracy.

It is frequently assumed that the "people" must have something in common or else democracy will fail. This assumption that democracy requires commonality - such as a shared nationality, a common culture, or consensus on a core set of values - sets theorists and political actors alike on a futile search for what we have in common, and it generates misplaced anxiety when it turns out that this commonality is not forthcoming. In Sharing Democracy, Michaele Ferguson argues that this preoccupation with commonality misdirects our attention toward what we share and away from how we share in democracy. This produces an ironically anti-democratic tendency to emphasize the passive possession of commonality at the expense of promoting the active exercise of political freedom. Ferguson counteracts this tendency by exposing the reasons for the persistent allure of the common. She offers in its stead a radical vision of democracy grounded in political freedom: the capacity of ordinary people to make and remake the world in which they live. This vision of democracy is exemplified in protest marches: cacophonous, unpredictable, and self-authorizing collective enactments of our world-building freedom. Ferguson develops her radical vision of democracy by drawing on Hannah Arendt's account of how we share a world in common with others, Ludwig Wittgenstein's later philosophy of language, and Linda Zerilli's critique of the essentialist/anti-essentialist debates in feminist theory. She juxtaposes critical readings of democratic theorists with readings of authors in related fields, such as Benedict Anderson, Robert Putnam, and Charles Taylor. Her theoretical argument is illustrated and informed by interpretations of political events, including the Arab Spring, the integration of Little Rock High School, debates over Quebec secession, immigrant rights protests in the US in 2006, and the Occupy movement.