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Abstract
Contestation over war memorialization can help democratic
theory respond to the current attenuation of citizenship in war in liberal
democratic states, especially the United States. As war involves more advanced
technologies and fewer soldiers, the relation of citizenship to war
changes. In this context war memorialization plays a particular role in refiguring
the relation. Current practices of remembering and memorializing war
in contemporary neoliberal states respond to a dilemma: the state needs to
justify and garner support for continual wars while distancing citizenship
from participation. The result is a consumer culture of memorialization that
seeks to effect a unity of the political community while it fights wars with
few citizens and devalues the public. Neoliberal wars fought with few soldiers
and an economic logic reveals the vulnerability to otherness that leads
to more active and critical democratic citizenship.
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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