Doing Democracy: Activist Art and Cultural Politics

Contributors

367 Contributors Bruce Baum is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of British Columbia. He is author of Rereading Power and Freedom in J. S. Mill (University of Toronto, 2000) and The Rise and Fall of the Caucasian Race: A Political History of Racial Identity (New York University Press, 2006, 2008). He is also coeditor (with Duchess Harris) of Racially Writing the Republic: Racists, Race Rebels, and Transformations of American Identity (Duke University Press, 2009) and (with Robert Nichols) of Isaiah Berlin and the Politics of Freedom: Berlin’s “Two Concepts of Liberty” 50 Years Later (Routledge, 2012). Emily Beausoleil is Lecturer in Politics at Massey University, New Zealand. Her doctoral research at the University of British Columbia examined the potential and practice of the performing arts as forms of democratic engagement, with a particular interest in how such modes impact communication of marginalized positions in comparison with conventional political processes. Her current research investigates the affective and embodied dimensions of receptivity, as well as how embodied practices might be harnessed to facilitate listening and accountability in politics. Connecting affect, critical democratic, postcolonial, neuroscience, and performance scholarship, Beausoleil’s work responds to compelling calls to find new models for coalition, community, and post-home politics by asking how we realize these ideals in concrete terms. Roland Bleiker is Professor of International Relations at the University of Queensland, Australia. His books include Popular Dissent, Human Agency and Global Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2000), Divided Korea: Toward a Culture of Reconciliation (University of Minnesota Press, 368 / mark mattern and nancy s. love 2005) and Aesthetics and World Politics (Palgrave, 2009). His most recent coedited volumes are Security and the War on Terror (Routledge, 2007) and Mediating Across Difference: Pacific and Asian Approaches to Security and Conflict (University of Hawaii Press, 2010). Bleiker’s current research on linkages between aesthetics and politics includes projects on how images shape responses to humanitarian crises and on how political theater can contribute to democratic debates. Sushmita Chatterjee received a dual-degree PhD from the Departments of Political Science and Women’s Studies at the Pennsylvania State University and is currently Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies and Government & Justice Studies at Appalachian State University. Sushmita enjoys teaching, learning, and writing about democratic theory, visual politics, feminist-queer theory, and postcolonial, transnational politics. She is currently working on a book manuscript that studies post-9/11 identity politics through an examination of Art Spiegelman’s visual politics. Mark Chou is Lecturer in Politics in the School of Arts and Sciences at Australian Catholic University. He is the author of Greek Tragedy and Contemporary Democracy (Bloomsbury, 2012) and Theorising Democide:Why and How Democracies Fail (Palgrave, 2013). Sanna Inthorn is a Senior Lecturer in Society, Media, and Culture at the University of East Anglia, United Kingdom. She is coauthor (with Justin Lewis and Karin Wahl-Jorgensen) of Citizens or Consumers? What the Media Tell Us about Political Participation (Open University Press, 2005) and (with John Street and Martin Scott) of From Entertainment to Citizenship : Politics and Popular Culture (Manchester University Press, 2013), and the author of German Media and National Identity (Cambria Press, 2007). Nancy S. Love is Professor of Government and Justice Studies and affiliated faculty with the Interdisciplinary Studies Program at Appalachian State University. She is the author of Musical Democracy (State University of New York Press, 2006), Understanding Dogmas and Dreams: A Text, 2nd ed. (CQ Press, 2006), and Marx, Nietzsche, and Modernity (Columbia University Press, 1986), and the editor of Dogmas and Dreams: A Reader in Modern Political Ideologies, 4th ed. (CQ Press, 2010). She also coedits (with Mark Mattern) New Political Science: A Journal of Politics and Culture. Her current research focuses on the music and politics of the radical right. conclusion / 369 Timothy W. Luke is University Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Virginia. He also serves as Chair for the Government and International Affairs Program in the School of Public and International Affairs, and as the Director of the Center for Digital Discourse and Culture (CDDC) in the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences. His main research interests are political and social theory, global conflict, environmental politics, and cultural analysis. Regina Marchi holds a PhD in Communication from the University of California at San Diego and is Associate Professor in the School of...