Towards an Improper Politics / / Mark Devenney.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
• VerfasserIn: Devenney, Mark,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (224 p.)

Argues that democratic politics is improper in enacting equality against property and proprietyCharacterises democratic politics as improper against the dominant view of democracy as a regimeShows that questions of property, inequality and impropriety are central to post-Marxist thought and politicsFrames conceptual arguments within specific examples of political interventions from around the globe, including the politics of a brick and of occupationsRethinks hegemony in terms of proprietary order thus rethinking the links between culture, economy and polityAccords a dignity to forms of politics that are often deemed marginalThis book systematically introduces the idea of an improper politics, and characterises democratic politics as improper in a challenge to the proper bounds of reason, accepted behaviours and the policing of proper order. Mark Devenney contributes a conceptual vocabulary that engages with the politics of the proper, propriety and property from a post-foundational perspective. He argues that this triad is central to understanding the maintenance of global inequality, both economic and political.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- ONE Property, Propriety and the Limits of the Proper -- TWO Theorising the Improper -- THREE The Performative Politics of a Brick -- FOUR The Politics of Equivalence -- FIVE The Improper Politics of Democracy -- SIX Transnational Populist Politics -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX