Relativist Democracy in an Age of Political Indifference
In: Politics, religion & ideology, Volume 17, Issue 2-3, p. 274-276
ISSN: 2156-7697
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In: Politics, religion & ideology, Volume 17, Issue 2-3, p. 274-276
ISSN: 2156-7697
In: Religions ; Volume 9 ; Issue 12
Emmanuel Levinas critiques the political sovereignty of what is Said (le Dit), the surface differences and visible identities politics imposes, through a recourse to the nudity of the invisible face, which, audible rather than visible, is a pre-predicative Saying (le Dire). Although Levinas does not deny systemic and political injustices, he is not convinced that the solution to these problems is itself systemic and political, as the political is a problem rather than a solution. Only the ethical and/or religious can offer a response to the problem of the political. Given this Levinassian edifice, then, this article argues that all thinking that fails to skeptically unsay (le Dé ; dire) the social and institutionalized differences of the political machine makes no difference. The article will first articulate why, following Levinas, politics is the problem rather than a solution and then explain why ethical (and religious) relation is prior to politics (and ontology) by demarcating different senses of thirdness (le tier). A criticism of natural rights will follow before some concluding remarks are offered that explain how one might enact a skeptical comportment toward all politics that may nevertheless let political situations lie exactly as they were.
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In: Strategic analysis: a monthly journal of the IDSA, Volume 43, Issue 4, p. 328-334
ISSN: 1754-0054
In: International Law - Book Archive pre-2000
In: Washington report on Middle East affairs, Volume 33, Issue 7, p. 42
ISSN: 8755-4917
In: Public opinion quarterly: journal of the American Association for Public Opinion Research, Volume 52, Issue 2, p. 270-272
ISSN: 0033-362X
published_or_final_version ; Politics and Public Administration ; Doctoral ; Doctor of Philosophy
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In: International journal of public administration, Volume 26, Issue 5, p. 473-496
ISSN: 1532-4265
In: International journal of public administration: IJPA, Volume 26, Issue 5, p. 473-496
ISSN: 0190-0692
In: The Australian Political Studies Association Annual Conference, University of Sydney Paper
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In: Global studies quarterly: GSQ, Volume 2, Issue 2
ISSN: 2634-3797
AbstractThis article examines how attitudes and structures of indifference to oppression and global inequality—practices of cruelty—are cultivated at both macro (institutional) and micro (everyday life) levels. First, following (Inayatullah and Blaney 2010a, 2010b), I suggest that a core premise of classical political economy—the split between self and other—is depoliticized and rationalized by contemporary discourses of international political economy. This depoliticization is a condition of possibility for attitudes of indifference. Consequently, understanding attitudes and structures of indifference requires re-politicizing political economy as a cultural encounter structured through gendered and racialized hierarchies. Second, I argue that indifference to cruelty is cultivated through recourse to ethical rather than political imperatives, which foreground ethical action in ways that continue to depoliticize the cruelties of global inequality. Two sites animate this project and foreground a form of banal cruelty justified through the cultivation of political indifference: at the microlevel, a dystopian short story that takes an ethicized indifference as the basis for accounting for racialized and gendered labor migration (George Saunders' "The Semplica Girl Diaries"), and, at the macro-level, Canada's Temporary Foreign Worker programs, which produce depoliticized justifications for systemic racialized exploitation. I argue that this ethicization of political relationships is a way of precluding engagement with the colonial politics of indifference and the everyday cruelties of political economy through which inequalities and exploitations are produced and reproduced.
In: American political science review, Volume 81, Issue 1, p. 273-274
ISSN: 1537-5943
Most theories of radicalization focus on the birth of antidemocratic ideas, semantics, behavior patterns and organizations. However, such focus is one-sided: radicalization is as much about the forgetting of historical lessons and the weakening of a democratic consensus, as the spreading of populist ideas. A case study of public and private processes of memory transmission in Hungary reveals how the ambiguous relation to modernization affects political formation: the failures provoke populist reactions, while the successes result in political indifference. The combination of these two political cultures creates a dangerous compound including both the opportunity for the birth of antidemocratic semantics and their ignorance. The author analyzes the potential of such «incubation of radicalism» on a European survey
In: Journal of common market studies: JCMS, Volume 21, Issue 1, p. 69-93
ISSN: 1468-5965
In: Debating Europe: the 2009 European parliament elections and beyond, p. 69-83