Deliberating Bodies: Democracy, Identification, and Embodiment

Machin, Amanda

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“…The performativity of simply being there becomes apparent when Butler (2015, p. 87) asks: ‘is appearance not necessarily a morphological moment […]?’. The body does not limit but produces identity and allows for various enactments of the self (Machin, 2015). Hence, identity politics and the politics of becoming do not preclude each other.…”

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The politics of becoming: Disidentification as radical democratic practice

Asenbaum

2020

European Journal of Social Theory

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Current radical democratic politics is characterized by new participatory spaces for citizens’ engagement, which aim at facilitating the democratic ideals of freedom and equality. These spaces are, however, situated in the context of deep societal inequalities. Modes of discrimination are carried over into participatory interaction. The democratic subject is judged by its physically embodied appearance, which replicates external hierarchies and impedes the freedom of self-expression. To tackle this problem, this article seeks to identify ways to increase the freedom of the subject to explore its multiple self. Understanding the self as inherently fugitive, the article investigates participatory, deliberative and agonistic concepts of self-transformation. As all of them appear limited, it introduces a transformative perspective in democratic thought. Enriching the transformative perspective with queer and gender theory, the article generates the concept of a politics of becoming, which, through radical democratic practices of disidentification, advances the freedom of the subject to change.

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“…The term performativity draws attention to the naturalized effort it takes to produce identity. ‘Identifications are inscribed upon and incorporated into bodies’ (Machin, 2015, p. 49). It hence depends on corporeal performances in line with established identity patterns.…”

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The politics of becoming: Disidentification as radical democratic practice

Asenbaum

2020

European Journal of Social Theory

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“…In Chicago, youth organizers found a successful workaround tactic of disruption to voice their concern on the issue of police presence in their schools. Likewise, the work of the people's spaces created the possibility for the "creation of counter-publics as safe spaces where alternative identities [could] be created," an important aspect to transformative democracy [46]. By bypassing the constraints of existing political forums (limited by time limited testimony and virtual format) they directly established a people's agenda for continued collective disruption via a coalition of activists working across different issues of structural injustice.…”

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“…Borrowing from queer and feminist theories of performance, Asenbaum uses transformative democracy to understand presence as a process of political creation [4]. Political theorist Amanda Machin speaks to the importance of physical embodiment, with bodies playing an active role in rupturing a dominant order and transforming collective identities [46]. Asenbaum connects "identification" as a tool of state control [63]to the power of physical presence and performance in political spaces as means to shatter assigned identities [4].…”

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Fox

2022

Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact.

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This paper examines the rapid turn to remote public meetings during the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on a mix of archival materials, participant observation, and interviews within and around two mid- to large cities in the Rust Belt and Midwest regions of the United States, we consider how public officials introduced digital meeting platforms and surveys in place of traditional forms of in-person public consultation. We also examine emergent strategies of residents as they worked to have their voices heard and concerns met during a time of compounding crises (e.g., pandemic, economic recession, racial violence). Drawing from this case study, we articulate the concept of disruptive testimony, forms of public witnessing that trouble established hierarchies of power, surface conflict, and open opportunities for social change. We argue consideration for collective counter-power is increasingly important to GROUP scholarship as it attends to civic engagement beyond participation in formal, sanctioned government processes.

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“…We frequently convey messages and pose questions using nonverbal cues and gestures. Think of "an awkwardly placed elbow and a subtly raised eyebrow," 64 or a nod and a smile, and how they can affect a conversation. Since we take notice of such behavior when they are carried out by able-bodied and ableminded individuals, it makes little sense to exclude such behavior as forms of participation when they are exhibited by CD individuals.…”

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Disabled Lives in Deliberative Systems

Afsahi

2020

Political Theory

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This essay argues that the systemic turn in deliberative democracy has opened up avenues to think about disabled citizenship within discursive processes. I highlight the systemic turn’s recognition of the interdependence of individuals and institutions upon each other in a system as key to this project. This recognition has led to three transformations: (1) a more generous account of deliberative speech acts and behaviors; (2) recognition of the role of enclaves; and (3) incorporating the role of discursive representatives. These changes normalize the participation of cognitively disabled individuals and suggest institutional opportunities for more effective participation.

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Deliberating Bodies: Democracy, Identification, and Embodiment

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