The democratic arts of mourning: political theory and loss

Abstract

Introduction : the democratic arts of mourning / David W. McIvor and Alexander Keller Hirsch -- Groups can hardly mourn / C. Fred Alford -- Must we always mourn? : a war on terror veterans memorial / Steven Johnston -- Removing the confederate flag in South Carolina in the wake of Charleston : sovereignty, symbolism, and white domination in a "colorblind" state / Heather Pool -- Mourning denied : the tabooed subject / Claudia Leeb -- Not in my graveyard / Osman Balkan -- Reparations, refusals, and grief : idle no more and democratic mourning / Vicki Hsueh -- Burning rage : disenfranchised mourning and the political possibilities of anger / Shirin S. Deylami -- The funeral and the riot : #blacklivesmatter, antagonistic politics, and the limits of (exceptional) mourning / David Myer Temin -- Music, mourning, and democratic resilience : Bruce Springsteen's The rising / Simon Stow -- Speaking silence : holding and the democratic arts of mourning / Joel Schlosser -- Rituals of re-entry : an interview with Bonnie Honig / David W. McIvor and Alexander Keller Hirsch.