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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Theorizing from and Traveling toward a Radical Democratic Habitus -- 1. The Neuropolitical Habitus of Resonant Receptive Democracy -- 2. From Mega- circulatory Power to Polyface Flows -- 3. System Dynamics and a Radical Politics of Transformative Co- optation -- 4. Shock Democracy and Wormhole Hope in Catastrophic Times -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Theorizing temporalities -- Theorizing political subjectivities -- Theorizing and genre -- Theorizing tragedy

Beyond Gated Politics argues that the survival of democracy depends on recognizing the failings of disengaged liberal democracy and experimenting with more radical modes of democratic theory and action. Romand Coles moves beyond the paradigms of political liberalism, deliberative democracy, and communitarian republicanism, cultivating modes of public discourse that reflect and sustain the creative tension at the heart of democratic life and responsibility

Beyond Gated Politics argues that the survival of democracy depends on recognizing the failings of disengaged liberal democracy and experimenting with more radical modes of democratic theory and action. Romand Coles moves beyond the paradigms of political liberalism, deliberative democracy, and communitarian republicanism, cultivating modes of public discourse that reflect and sustain the creative tension at the heart of democratic life and responsibility.

This essay critically engages ontological, rhetorical, ethical, and political themes pertinent to the concept of "sympathy" as it appears in the poetry and prose of Walt Whitman and Jane Bennett's writing on him. I suggest that antagonism is immanent in the "ecology of sympathies" that Bennett theorizes, and that this partly explains why one frequently finds antagonistic articulations deeply intertwined with Whitman's most sympathetic expressions. I propose that we use the paradoxical—even oxymoronic sounding—trope antagonistic sympathy to evoke this immanent relationship between affiliative and antagonistic flows, energies, and conditions for ethical and political cultivation. The concept of antagonistic sympathy helps us better understand Whitman, the ethical and political qualities, pulls, and implications of sympathy, and it enables us to theorize entanglements of sympathy and antagonism in ways that avoid the worst tendencies of each when isolated from the other. Antagonistic sympathy, I argue, is indispensable for radical democratic and ecological transformation in a time of rapidly intensifying planetary ecological catastrophe.

The discipline of political science in the United States evolved in tandem with the development of democratic education and the modern university system. Since the early years of the twentieth century, political science has been an academic discipline housed in universities and colleges, and most political scientists earn their living as university or college teachers. And yet as individual academics or as a discipline, we rarely stand back from our institutional environment and ask hard questions about what is happening with higher education and what this means for the practice of political science. Suzanne Mettler does precisely this in Degrees of Inequality: How Higher Education Politics Sabotaged the American Dream. And so we have invited a range of political science scholars, many with extensive experience as university leaders, to comment on her book and its implications for the future of political science.

A review essay covering a book by Paul Apostolidis, Breaks in the Chain: What Immigrant Workers Can Teach America about Democracy (2010).