COVID-19, Democracies, and (De)Colonialities

IF 0.8 Q3 POLITICAL SCIENCE Democratic Theory-An Interdisciplinary Journal Pub Date : 2020-12-01 DOI:10.3167/DT.2020.070211
Marcos S. Scauso, Garrett FitzGerald, A. Tickner, N. Behera, Chengxin Pan, C. Shih, K. Shimizu
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Liberal democracies often include rights of participation, guarantees of protection, and policies that privilege model citizens within a bounded territory. Notwithstanding claims of universal equality for “humanity,” they achieve these goals by epistemically elevating certain traits of identity above “others,” sustaining colonial biases that continue to favor whoever is regarded more “human.” The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated these fault lines, unveiling once more the often-hidden prevalence of inequalities that are based on race, gender, class, ethnicity, and other axes of power and their overlaps. Decolonial theories and practices analyze these othering tendencies and inequalities while also highlighting how sites of suffering sometimes become locations of solidarity and agency, which uncover often-erased alternatives and lessons.
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新冠肺炎、民主政体和殖民地
自由民主通常包括参与权、保护保障和在有限领土内对模范公民给予特权的政策。尽管声称“人类”享有普遍平等,但他们通过在认识上将某些身份特征提升到“其他”之上,维持殖民偏见来实现这些目标,这些偏见继续有利于被视为更“人性”的人。新冠肺炎大流行加剧了这些断层线,再次揭示了基于种族的不平等现象的普遍性,性别、阶级、种族和其他权力轴心及其重叠。非殖民化理论和实践分析了这些其他趋势和不平等,同时也强调了痛苦的地方有时是如何成为团结和代理的地方,这揭示了往往被抹去的替代方案和教训。
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期刊介绍: Democratic Theory is a peer-reviewed journal published and distributed by Berghahn. It encourages philosophical and interdisciplinary contributions that critically explore democratic theory—in all its forms. Spanning a range of views, the journal offers a cross-disciplinary forum for diverse theoretical questions to be put forward and systematically examined. It advances non-Western as well as Western ideas and is actively based on the premise that there are many forms of democracies and many types of democrats. As a forum for debate, the journal challenges theorists to ask and answer the perennial questions that plague the field of democratization studies: Why is democracy so prominent in the world today? What is the meaning of democracy? Will democracy continue to expand? Are current forms of democracy sufficient to give voice to “the people” in an increasingly fragmented and divided world? Who leads in democracy? What types of non-Western democratic theories are there? Should democrats always defend democracy? Should democrats be fearful of de-democratization, post-democracies, and the rise of hybridized regimes?
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