Catherine Frost

Language, Democracy, and the Paradox of Constituent Power (eBook, ePUB)

Declarations of Independence in Comparative Perspective

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Beginning with the founding speech in the American Declaration, Catherine Frost uses insights drawn from unexpected or unlikely forms of founding in cases like Ireland and Canada to reconsider the role of time and loss in how such speech is framed.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. April 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429884733
• Artikelnr.: 61241108

Autorenporträt

Catherine Frost is Associate Professor of Political Science at McMaster University, Canada. Her teaching and research interests are in political thought and history, including political community, nationalism, and collective identity, as well as communications theory, literature and new media. Her research centers on questions of representation and justice and asks how and why systems of representation are created and re-created and how this reshapes politics. Before joining McMaster, Frost held research fellowships at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel, and McGill University in Montreal, Canada, and before entering academia, she served as a policy advisor in the Ontario government and a communications advisor in the private sector.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The Speaking Sovereign 2. Declarations of independence as proto-legal
performatives 3. America's Declaration of Independence as index case 4.
Poetic prophecy in Ireland's 1916 Proclamation of the Republic 5. Canada's
Secession Reference and the trickiness of sovereign speech 6. Scotland's
festival of democracy 7. Paradox, riddles, and the Saturnalia of language
8. Conclusion: Moving in the gap