Political Disasters and The Problem of Responsiveness.
In: Conference Papers -- International Studies Association, 2007, S. 1-1
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Political disasters have frequently marked diverse political landscapes. Coming in various shapes and sizes, from the Triangle Fire in New York City to WWI, the Holocaust, and 9/11, such cataclysmic events that have caused great harm and have left widespread disorientation in their wakes. The harms produced by such disasters demand responses, but the disorientation they engender makes appropriate responses difficult. A politically significant response to these events has been to attempt to hold individuals or communities liable for them. However, since WWII a number of philosophers and political theorists have questioned the adequacy of this "liability model", and have instead advocated some version of what I call "responsiveness"; that is, the acknowledgment of practically meaningful connections between ordinary citizens' everyday lives-our condition-and broader social and political harms, by virtue of which we might maintain some sense of control over our lives in the face of disorientation and fear. Yet they have said little about how to cultivate responsiveness; about what might obstruct its cultivation; and about how we might occasionally overcome those obstructions. In the context of political disasters the stakes of these questions are especially high, since the enormity of such events only increases our experience of the gap between what we do every day and the magnitude of disasters, and thus seems to occlude opportunities for responsiveness. In this paper, which is also the first chapter of my dissertation, I attempt to articulate this problem, and to gesture toward its significance for political thought and practice. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Political Disasters and The Problem of Responsiveness.
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Schiff, Jacob |
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Zeitschrift: | Conference Papers -- International Studies Association, 2007, S. 1-1 |
Quelle: | 2007 Annual Meeting, p1-36. 0p.; (2007) S. 1-1 |
Veröffentlichung: | 2007 |
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