Description: The contributors to Feeling Democracy examine how both reactionary and progressive politics in the twenty-first century are driven largely by emotional appeals to the public. These essays cover everything from immigrants' rights movements to white nationalist rallies to show how solidarities forged around gender, race, and sexuality become catalysts for a passionate democratic politics.
Review Quotes: "'Feeling democracy' sounds like a paradoxical practice as the normative foundation of liberal democracy is rationality. This book gives profound argumentations and examples to disentangle the emotional power dynamics in democracies from a global feminist and intersectional perspective. 'Feeling democracy' is especially important in times of right-wing challenges to liberal democracy and right-wing antagonistic affective mobilization across the globe."--Birgit Sauer "co-author of Governing Affects: Neoliberalism, Neo-Bureaucracies, and Service Work"