A Queer-Feminist Theory
by Isabell Lorey
- Author(s)
- Isabell Lorey
- Publication
- London ; New York : Verso, 2022
- Scope
- 240 Pages, 21 cm.
- ISBN
- 9781839767333
“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.
- Keywords
- (in)equity , feminism , queerness , politics , justice , care , democracy
- Location
- Cabinet 30 - 5: Seksualiteit ; gender en ruimte
- Extra themes
- Sexuality, Gender and Space
- Remarks
- Includes notes, bibliography, index ; temporarily located kast 30 - 4 : Tentacular Thinking ; Mind Map
