Sensate Democracy and Grievable Life

Jenkins, Fiona

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Sensate Democracy and Grievable Life

Date

2015

Authors

Jenkins, Fiona

Publisher

Edinburgh University Press

Abstract

I shall suggest we think about this diagnosis of ethical violence primarily in terms of the need it implies for a continual re-making of spatio-temporal relations and social bonds in contemporary polities; and, within this, the active appropriation of sacred 'universals' into the space of democratic contestation.