Political mourning identity and responsibility in the wake of tragedy / Heather Pool.
| Author/creator | Pool, Heather N. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2021. |
| Description | pages cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction. The Rise of Black Lives Matter -- Why Do Some Deaths Matter Politically? -- Chapter One: Making Mourning Political -- Death and Politics -- Making Mourning Political -- Identity and the Borders of Belonging -- Responsibility -- A Process Model of Political Mourning -- Tracing Political Mourning in Politics -- Chapter Two: The Triangle Fire: State Responsibility for White Workers -- Making Loss Visible: The Strike, the Fire, and a March of Mourning -- Agency, Collective Responsibility, and Political Change -- Why Did this Fire Matter? -- Chapter Three: Mourning Emmett Till: Federal Responsibility for Racial Violence -- Contested Identities: Race and Law -- Making Loss and Mourning Visible -- The Failure of Law and Recognition of Collective Responsibility -- Mobilizing Mourning for Political Change -- Chapter Four: September 11: Sovereign Mourning - Rejecting International Responsibility -- Contested Identities and American Responses to Terrorism Before 9/11 -- Depoliticizing Visibility: Intimate Loss and Public Spectacle -- Political Actors Taking Their Grief-Wrath Public to Make War Instead of Law -- Eschewing Law and Responsibility -- Political Change: The PATRIOT Act and the War on Terror -- Conclusion: Sovereign Mourning -- Chapter Five: The Democratic Deficit of All Lives Matter -- Black Lives Matter as Political Mourning -- The Democratic Deficit of All Lives Matter -- The Embodied Democracy of Black Lives Matter -- Conclusion -- Chapter Six: Conclusion -- The (Normatively Desirable) Possibilities of Political Mourning -- The (Normatively Undesirable) Possibilities of Political Mourning -- Unanswered Questions -- Conclusion -- Afterword: The COVID-19 Pandemic of 2020. |
| Abstract | "Political Mourning examines four case studies-the Triangle Fire, Emmett Till's murder, the attacks of September 11th, and the Black Lives Matter movement-to shed light on moments when everyday people died, when their deaths were the basis of calls for political change, and when such a change actually occurred"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Dissertation note | This work is based in part on the author's dissertation in Political Science from the University of Washington. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2020038672 |
| ISBN | 9781439918920 (cloth) |
| ISBN | 9781439918937 (paperback) |
| ISBN | (pdf) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |