post-politics
Sign in to savePost-politics is a term in social sciences used to describe the effects of depoliticisation—a move away from the antagonistic political discourse, empowering unelected technocrats with decisions—in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, when the representative democracies of the post–Cold War era had arguably entered depoliticisation. Generally related to and used alongside similar terms such as "post-democracy" and "the post-political", the term "post-politics" carries negative connotations of depriving the people from having a voice on issues deemed settled by the elites.
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- Terminology
- Depoliticisation
- Post-political
- "There is no alternative"
- History
- Roots of the post-political consensus
- The global political landscape post-1989
- Intellectual climate
- The post-political critique
- Rancière's account of the political
- Politics versus police
- ''Le partage du sensible'' (the "partition" or "distribution" of "the perceptible")
- The contingency of the police order: constitutive excess, the miscount and political subjectivation
- Excess and the universal in Rancière, Žižek, Badiou and Mouffe
- Saturation and post-politics
- Post-politics and the environment
- Symptoms of the post-political condition exemplified in environmental politics
- Post-ideological consensus
- Managerialism and technocracy
- Politics as the negotiation of particular interests
- Populism and the resurgence of the properly political
- See also
- References
- Sources
- Further reading
Post-politics is a term in social sciences used to describe the effects of depoliticisation—a move away from the antagonistic political discourse, empowering unelected technocrats with decisions—in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, when the representative democracies of the post–Cold War era had arguably entered depoliticisation. Generally related to and used alongside similar terms such as "post-democracy" and "the post-political", the term "post-politics" carries negative connotations of depriving the people from having a voice on issues deemed settled by the elites.
== Terminology == The history of the term "post-politics" is disputed: Slavoj Žižek in 1999 attributed it to Jacques Rancière, with the latter denying ever using it. Rancière argued, however, that after the dissolution of the Soviet bloc, the resulting "end of history" feeling caused "an internal weakening of the very democracy that was assumed to have triumphed", and that the neoliberal state institutions increasingly started to make decisions that traditionally belonged to the legislatures.
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