Speaking Subjects and Democratic Space: Rancière and the Politics of Speech

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  • This essay engages Jacques Rancière's politics of speech. On one familiar story, the ideal of democratic inclusion is betrayed when groups are blocked from participation and thus are rendered voiceless. The normative task, then, is to eliminate these blockages, so as to open the broadest possibilities for unfettered critical dialogue. However, Rancière helps to reveal that deliberative approaches are not sufficiently attuned to democratic processes of marginality or the kind of agency necessary to contest them. The essay, accordingly, intervenes within ongoing debates on dialogue and democracy. By the end, however, I propose that Rancière's model is not fully sensitive to the range of difficulties at play, which means that his model of political agency must be expanded if it is to succeed in its own aims.
TitleSpeaking Subjects and Democratic Space: Rancière and the Politics of Speech
CreatorFeola, Michael
PublisherPolity
Academic DepartmentGovernment & Law
DivisionSocial Sciences
OrganizationLafayette College
Date IssuedOctober 2014
Date Available2023-04-07
TypeArticle
LanguageEnglish
Bibliographic CitationFeola, M. (2014 Oct) "Speaking Subjects and Democratic Space: Rancière and the Politics of Speech." Polity 46 (4): 498-519.
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