Chapter 1 Invitation to Performative Democracy; Chapter 2 Staging Freedom; Chapter 3 The Public Matter; Chapter 4 Citizen Michnik; Chapter 5 Furnishing Democracy; Chapter 6 Provincializing Global Feminism; Chapter 7 EnGendering Democracy; Chapter 8 Postscriptum on an Old Bridge;
Born and educated in Poland, Elzbieta Matynia is Associate Professor of Sociology and Liberal Studies at the New School for Social Research and Director of the New School's Transregional Center for Democratic Studies, through which she has developed innovative modes of learning and research grounded in international academic collaboration.
"A first-rate and firsthand account of the slow but inexorable
transformation of Poland."
—Christopher Hitchens, Slate
“This beautifully-realized original book explores the borderlands
governing the zone between that which is permitted and that which
is not to illuminate how democracy and dignity can develop out of
harsh and humiliating authoritarian conditions. Focusing on
transitions to political regimes and transformations to gender,
Performative Democracy is an instance of what it analyzes—for it is
that rare intervention that itself can help generate the change it
most admires.”
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