AARP. See American Association of Retired Persons (AARP)
abjection, as defense mechanism
Abraham, Nicholas
acting out. See also state violence; war; war on terror
Afghanistan
Africa; blogosphere; genocide; truth and reconciliation commissions
African Americans
After Virtue (McIntyre)
agonistic politics
agora
Al Qaeda
Allison, David
American Association of Retired Persons (AARP)
The Antichrist (Nietzsche)
apathy of the public
Arendt, Hannah: feminism and world-building freedom; and Heidegger; and the human condition; and integrative deliberation; Kristeva’s analysis; on modes of living; on public sphere; on public testimony; on silencing the public sphere; on “space of appearance”
Aristotle
Armstrong, David
authoritarian regimes. See also state violence
autoimmunity, destructive
autonomy: meaning in preference-based model of deliberation; meaning in rational proceduralist model of deliberation; modern ideal of
Balkans
Barber, Ben
Bartlettt, Dan
battered wife syndrome
BBC
Benhabib, Seyla
Berkman Center for Internet and Society
Berners-Lee, Tim
Bettelheim, Bruno
Bhargava, Rajeev
bigotry
Black Panthers
blogosphere; in Africa; criticisms of; defined; and deliberative democracy; Global Voices; interlinking of; and journalism; and “talking cure”
Bloodlines: From Ethnic Pride to Ethnic Terrorism (Volkan)
The Body in Pain (Scarry)
Bollas, Christopher
Boyte, Harry
Brazile, Donna
Brennan, Teresa
Brzezinki, Zbigniew
Bunker, Archie
Bush, George H. W.
Butler, Judith
Calhoun, Craig
California
Cambodia
Carson, Rachel
Carter, Jimmy
Cheney, Dick
children, trajectory from speechlessness to participation
China
“choice work”
“chosen traumas” and “chosen glories”
Christianity
“citizens’ peace process”
citizenship; and elections; learning of; undermined by state violence. See also individuals; public, the
The Civic Renewal Movement (Sirianni and Friedland)
civil wars
Civilization and Its Discontents (Freud)
climate change
Clinton, Bill
Cohen, Joshua
Cold War
“collective raced unconscious”
collective-action theory
colonialism
communication. See blogosphere; Internet
communicative action
community building
computers. See also blogosphere; Internet
constriction, as long-term effect of trauma
Cornell, Drucilla
Cortes, Ernesto, Jr.
countertransference
Cousins, Norman
Crete
criminal tribunals
critical theory, and limits of liberal theory
Crocker, David
Curtis, Kimberley
Daly, Mary
Darfur
Dartmouth Conferences
death instinct
defense mechanisms; long-term effects of trauma; and naming of September 11 event; and nation-states, (see also repetition compulsion; state violence); and sovereignty. See also specific defense mechanisms, such as reaction-formation
Defense Planning Guide
Defense Strategy for the 1990s
deliberative democracy; contrast to direct democracy; and creation of a public; deliberative polling; and different conceptions of politics; disconnect between deliberation and politics; and experts; feminism and world-building freedom; Habermas on communitarian movement; hate speech story; impartiality not required for; integrative deliberation; meaning of “public” in “public deliberation”; mediating institutions needed for; need for people to converse with unlike others; and people’s changing views of others; people’s motivations for participation; in practice; preference-based model; problem of partiality; problem with idea of public as aggregated sum of individuals; problems with closed-door deliberations; rational proceduralist version; and the right vs. the good; strengths of; sustained dialogue. See also deliberative forums; feminist theory; public knowledge
Deliberative Democracy Consortium
deliberative forums; blogosphere,; and feminism; informal venues; National Issues Convention (NIC); National Issues Forums; need for mediating institutions; participants’ views of others changed; reasoning conversation as a social event; and “talking cure”
deliberative polling
democracy; and definition of public sphere; deliberative alternative to direct democracy; direct democracy; elections; epistemic proceduralism and policy outcomes; failure to use tools of democracy after 9/11; green room conversations; justifications for; legitimacy argument for; moral disagreement and the necessity of democratic politics; myth of democracy; need for mediating institutions; obstacles to effective democracy; Plato on; problem of direct democracy; problem of partiality and policy outcomes; problem with idea of public as aggregated sum of individuals; problems with closed-door deliberations; public’s alienation from political process; “pure” proceduralism and policy outcomes; transition to. See also deliberative democracy; feminist theory; public knowledge
Democracy and Disagreement (Gutmann and Thompson)
denial, as defense mechanism
Derrida, Jacques
Des Pres, Terrence
Descartes, René
desires: drive theory; and feminism; and Freud’s vs. Oliver’s view of sublimation; and political unconscious. See also sublimation
desublimation, and survival in extreme conditions
Devine, Tad
Dewey, John; and definition of public sphere; and integrative deliberation; on the public; on public apathy; on public knowledge
Dionne, E. J.
direct democracy
disconnection, as long-term effect of trauma
discursive public sphere. See public sphere
disenchantment of the world
Donne, John
drive theory. See also sublimation
Dry Bones Rattling (Warren)
Dryzek, John
du Toit, André
Eisenhower, Dwight D.
El Salvador
elections
Elster, Jon
emotivist culture
Enlightenment
entertainment media, and “collective raced unconscious”
environmentalist movement
epistemology. See also public knowledge
Estlund, David
evangelical Christians
exclusion, logic of; and feminist agonistic politics; and identity formation of political societies
existentialism
experts: and the Internet; and public knowledge
Between Facts and Norms (Habermas)
family
Fanon, Frantz
Felman, Shoshana
Feminism and the Abyss of Freedom (Zerilli)
feminist theory; and agonistic politics; alternatives to oppression model; and Arendt; feminist definitions of “the problem”; goals of feminist project; and integrative deliberation; and “oppression” by sociosymbolic system; and repetition compulsion; and semiotics; and world-building freedom; and Zerilli
Fishkin, James
Fortune, Aaron
Foucault, Michel
France, situation of foreigners in
freedom: feminism and world-building freedom; unconscious
French Martinique
Freud, Anna
Freud, Sigmund: and death instinct; and development of individuals and peoples; and drive theory; and human development; and political unconscious; primary and secondary processes; and “talking cure”; and traumatic events
Friedland, Lewis
fundamentalism
Garnham, Nicholas
genocide. See also state violence
Germany
Global Voices
global warming
Gramsci, Antonio
Grand Rapids, Michigan
Great Britain
Greece, ancient
green room conversations
grieving. See mourning
Guatemala
Les Guerilleres (Wittig)
Gutmann, Amy
Habermas, Jürgen: on communicative action; on communitarian movement; on connection between public and politics; criticisms of; on deliberative discourse; and feminism; and modernity; on moral validity vs. solidarity; on public sphere; rationalist approach to deliberation; on silencing the public sphere; theory of communicative action; on ways of knowing; and Western liberal theory
Habermas and the Public Sphere (Calhoun)
Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society
Harwood, Rich
hate speech
Hedges, Chris
Hegel, G. W. F.
Heidegger, Martin
Herman, Judith
Hitler, Adolf
homo faber
Honig, Bonnie
human body, and metaphor for becoming a public
human condition, and Arendt
The Human Condition (Arendt)
human development
Hurricane Katrina
Hussein, Saddam
hyperarousal, as long-term effect of trauma
hypertext
identity: aspects of; and “collective raced unconscious”; and existence in extreme conditions; and the larger community; of nation-states; and peace-building process; and second-generation Muslim immigrants; self constituted through signifying practice; self constituted through social world; signifying media that structure experience; and silencing of public sphere. See also political identity of peoples
imago of international relations
individuals; alienation from political process, news media, and each other; alienation from public sphere, (see also state violence); bigotry; “collective raced unconscious”; and creation of a public; and development of civilizations; and disenchantment of the world; early humans; existence in extreme conditions; and human condition; and human development; identity and the larger community; and integrative deliberation; and limits of liberal theory; and modern ideal of autonomy; modes of living; and origins of political unconscious; and preference-based model of deliberation; and rational proceduralist model of deliberation; self constituted through signifying practice; self constituted through social world; and state violence; and sublimation; telos of; and voting; war on citizens as war on the public sphere. See also autonomy; public, the; social bonds; subjectivity; witnessing
Industrial Areas Foundation; Project Quest
Insight Journalism
integrative deliberation; contrast to other models; and expertise; and feminism; and National Issues Forums. See also deliberative democracy
International Institute for Sustained Dialogue
international public sphere; defined/described; and end of Cold War; ideal international realm (imago of international relations); and limits of liberal theory; peace-building process and sustained dialogue; psychological factors affecting; and repetition compulsion; tools for influencing behavior of states; and traumas; underground motivations; undermining of; and U.S. Defense Strategy for the 1990s; and will to power
international realism
Internet; and changing nature of expertise and professions; Global Voices; history of; and journalism; and public knowledge; public life and public voice. See also blogosphere
introjection, as defense mechanism
intrusion, as long-term effect of trauma
Iraq
Irigaray, Luce
Islam. See Muslims
isolation, as defense mechanism
Italy
James, William
Jim Crow laws
journalism
Jowell, Roger
Judaism
Julian, Joe
The Juridical Unconscious (Felman)
justice: just war theory; Plato on; Rawls on; as recognition; the right vs. the good; transitional. See also criminal tribunals
Justice and the Politics of Difference (Young)
Kafka, Franz
Kant, Immanuel
Kemmis, Dan
Kettering Foundation
Khmer Rouge
Kingston, Bob
Kinsley, Michael
Kornblut, Anne
Kosovo, Battle of
Kristeva, Julia; and abjection; analysis of Arendt; on analysts and analysands; on difficulties of foreigners in France; and drive theory; on history; and human development; on political dynamics of bearing witness in the public sphere; and semiotic and symbolic aspects of signification; social bonds and signification; on the subject in process
L.A. Times
Lacan, Jacques
Laclau, Ernesto
language: childhood trajectory from speechlessness to participation; and humans as political animals; Lacan’s view of the unconscious as structured like a language; and naming of September 11 event; and narrative; phantom effect. See also semiotic space
The Law of Peoples (Rawls)
Lee, Benjamin
legitimacy argument for democracy
liberal theory: and feminism; post-9/11 limits of
lifeworld; and feminism; as locus of communicative action
Limbaugh, Rush
Lippman, Walter
literary studies
Luhmann, Niklas
Luskin, Robert
Lydon, Christopher
Lyotard, Jean- François
MacIntyre, Alasdair
MacKinnon, Catherine
MacKinnon, Rebecca
Mandela, Nelson
Mansbridge, Jane
marginalized segments of society: and feminist agonistic politics; and identity formation of political societies; and origins of political unconscious; and recognition model of subjectivity; and the right vs. the good; and self-understanding. See also state violence
Marxism
Mathews, David
Maugham, Somerset
McCarthyism
meaning: and feminism; loss of intrinsic meaning in modernity; meaning of an event as meaning for us; and narrative
media; blogosphere; and changing nature of expertise and professions; and “collective raced unconscious”; emerging formats; Global Voices; and September 11; signifying media that structure experience; and transfer of trauma across generations
mediating institutions
Mehta, Dina
Michelman, Frank
Milan Women’s Bookstore Collective
Mills, Charles
Minnesota Public Radio
Minow, Martha
modernity; alienation from the real; and defense mechanisms; disenchantment of the world; and fundamentalism; metanarratives of; as product of traumas; racial contract and the rise of modernity; real world as fable and picture; Taylor on
morality: moral disagreement and necessity of democratic politics; the right vs. the good
Mouffe, Chantal
mourning
der Muselmann
Muslims: identity of second-generation immigrants; tales of trauma; and time collapse
myth: and fundamentalism; myth of democracy; Plato’s “myth of the metals”
narcissism, and nation-states
narratives; and countertransference; hate speech story; and meaning; myth and fundamentalism; narrative vs. forensic truths; tales of trauma; and working through trauma. See also witnessing
National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation
National Issues Convention (NIC)
National Issues Forums; and expertise; origins of
nation-states; and defense mechanisms; identity formation through abjection; and international realism; non-well-ordered states; political crimes inflicted on citizens; and psychoanalysis; psychotic societies; regression into barbarism; tools for influencing behavior of; transition to democracy. See also international public sphere; state violence
Nazi Germany
neo-Platonism
neurosis, and trauma
New Maladies of the Soul (Kristeva)
news media, public’s alienation from
Ngewu, Cynthia
NIC. See National Issues Convention (NIC)
Nietzsche, Friedrich
9/11. See September 11
Nixon, Richard
oikos
Oliver, Kelly: and colonialism; and political unconscious; on silencing the public sphere; on sublimation; on witnessing
“Open Source” radio program
opinion polls
Ottoman Empire
Pakistan
peace-building process: citizens’ peace process; necessary dimensions of relationships for; and sustained dialogue
Pearl Harbor
Peirce, Charles S.
peoples. See international public sphere
Pericles
phantom effect
phronesis
Plato
podcasting
poiesis
polarization
polis
political identity of peoples; “chosen traumas” and “chosen glories”; conflict fueled by religion and identity politics; and divided societies; identity formed by exclusion of the other; malformation of; and peace-building process
political unconscious; defined/ described; and human development; and limits of liberal theory; and oppressive regimes; origins of; peripheries of consciousness and the unconscious public sphere; and semiotic dynamics of public sphere; sublimation and the public sphere; unconscious freedom
political victims. See also state violence
politics: conceptions of; disconnect between deliberation and politics; public’s alienation from political process. See also deliberative democracy; democracy
Politics Is About Relationships (Saunders)
positivism
post-traumatic stress disorder
Powell, Colin
pragmatism: and feminism; and integrative deliberation; and limits of liberal theory; and meaning of “public” in “public deliberation”
praxis
preemptive strikes
preference-based model of deliberation
Prenshaw, Peggy
primary processes, Freudian
professions, changing nature of
Project Quest
projection, as defense mechanism
Proposition
Protagoras
Przeworski, Adam
psychic space: and political unconscious; and state violence; and witnessing
psychoanalysis: defense mechanisms, (see also defense mechanisms); and human development; and integrative deliberation; primary and secondary processes; and “talking cure”; and traumatic events; and truth and reconciliations commissions. See also acting out; political unconscious; recovery from traumatic events; repression; sublimation
psychotic societies
public, the; alienation from political process; apathy of; and blogosphere; defined/described; Dewey on; Habermas on; inchoate public; and journalism; and justifications for democracy; Lippman on; Mathews on; meaning of “public” in “public deliberation”; need for intelligence to judge expert knowledge; need for people to converse with unlike others; opinion polls; Plato on; polarization; and problem of direct democracy; problem of partiality and policy outcomes; problems with public as an aggregate of individuals; process of becoming a public; Schumpeter on; and self-understanding. See also marginalized segments of society
Public Agenda
The Public and Its Problems (Dewey)
public deliberation. See deliberative democracy
public forums, deliberative. See deliberative forums
public knowledge; defined/described; epistemic proceduralism and policy outcomes; and experts; and insufficiency of legitimacy thesis; and Internet; and legitimacy of democracies; need for people to converse with unlike others; problem of partiality; “pure” proceduralism and policy outcomes; and rationality
public opinion. See also deliberative polling
public sphere; alienation from, (see also state violence); Butler on; and “collective raced unconscious”; and computers/Internet; defined/described; and democracy; and feminism; Habermas on; and the human condition; international (see international public sphere); malformation due to failure of sublimation; moral disagreement and the necessity of democratic politics; and perceived internal threats in post- 9/11 U.S.; peripheries of consciousness and the unconscious public sphere; reestablishment of following trauma; semiotic dynamics of; signifying media that structure experience; silencing of; and subjective identity; sublimation and the political unconscious; as target of state violence, (see also state violence); and traumas, (see also state violence). See also deliberative democracy
public testimony. See criminal tribunals; truth and reconciliation commissions; witnessing
public will
Putnam, Robert
race: “collective raced unconscious”; racial contract and the rise of modernity
rational proceduralism; and deliberative democracy; and policy outcomes; problems with; reason and the limits of liberal theory
Rawls, John
The Razor’s Edge (Maugham)
reaction-formation
recovery from traumatic events; and criminal tribunals; defense mechanisms; moral disagreement and the necessity of democratic politics; mourning; and narrative; politics and the human condition; and social bonds; stages of recovery; and “talking cure”; truth and reconciliation commissions; witnessing. See also “talking cure”; acting out; blogosphere; truth and reconciliation commissions
reenactment, as long-term effect of trauma
referendum movement
regression
religion: conflict fueled by religion and identity politics; and limits of liberal theory; lure of fundamentalism; second-generation Muslim immigrants
repetition compulsion; and feminist agonistic politics; and international public sphere; and Iraq war; as long-term effect of trauma; and September 11; as sign of neurosis; war as “acting out” of trauma
repression,; and abjection; McCarthyism; and political unconscious; primary repression and nation-states; and suicidal autoimmunity
Republic (Plato)
republicanism
res publica
Reuters
reversal, as defense mechanism
Rorty, Richard
Rothberg, Robert
Roudiez, Leon
Roy, Olivier
Rumsfeld, Donald
Rwanda
Rycroft, Charles
sanctions against nation-states
Sandel, Michael
Sandell, Mark
Santorum, Rick
Saunders, Harold
Scarry, Elaine
Schiller, Friedrich
Schumpeter, Joseph
Sebold, Alice
secondary processes, Freudian
semiotic space: and “collective raced unconscious”; defined; and feminism; and human development; and international public sphere; and public articulations; semiotic dynamics of public sphere; signifying media that structure experience. See also public sphere
senior health care
September 11, 2001: and destructive autoimmunity; and fundamentalism; introspection cut short by government and media reaction to; and Iraq war; and limits of liberal theory; naming of event; and political polarization; and repetition compulsion; roots of; and U.S. sovereignty
shame, as tool for influencing nation-states
“shell shock”
signifying media that structure experience
Silent Spring (Carson)
Singapore
Sirianni, Carmen
slavery
Slim, Randa
Smith, Adam
social bonds; and existence in extreme conditions; and identity; and recovery from trauma; and signification; and sublimation. See also individuals
social choice theory
social contract
sociosymbolic system: defined/described; and feminism; and media; and state violence. See also public sphere
sophia
South Africa; truth and reconciliation commissions
sovereignty
Soviet Union
“space of appearance”
speech: and alienation from public sphere; Aristotle on; and human development; speech-act functions
Starr, Paul
state violence; and failure of sublimation; goals of brutality; psychological trauma inflicted for political purposes; and psychotic nation-states; public sphere undermined/silenced by; purpose of torture; restoration of public space following (see recovery from traumatic events); and subjectivity of victims; victims banished from community of aid
Stein, Gertrude
Stockholm syndrome
storytelling. See narratives; witnessing
Strangers to Ourselves (Kristeva)
Stuhr, John
subjectivity: Butler on; and colonialism; and feminism; identity and the larger community; Oliver on; recognition model; restored through witnessing; and state violence; and sublimation; and traumas; and witnessing. See also political unconscious
sublimation; as defense mechanism; and feminism; and freedom of expression; Freud on; and human development; and integrative deliberation; and the Internet (see media); Oliver on; public sphere and failure to sublimate desires; public sphere and the political unconscious; and silencing of public sphere; and witnessing
Sullivan, Shannon
Sunni Muslims
Sustein, Cass
systems theory
Szmaglewska, Seweryna
Tajikistan
Tales of Love (Kristeva)
“talking cure”. See also blogosphere; criminal tribunals; deliberative forums; truth and reconciliation commissions
Taylor, Charles
technology. See media
telos of human beings
terror. See state violence
terrorism. See war on terror
Thompson, Dennis
time: and identity formation; time collapse
Torok, Maria
torture, purpose of. See also state violence
“town meeting” model of deliberation
transition to democracy
transitional justice
trauma; “chosen traumas”; and “collective raced unconscious”; and colonialism; conflict fueled by religion and identity politics; defense mechanisms, (see also repetition compulsion); defined; Derrida on; disenchantment of the world; and fear of future trauma; and fundamentalism; long-term effects; media and transfer of trauma across generations; modernity as product of traumas; and narrative; and nation-states; ordinary traumas; and political identity of a people; psychic effect as unconscious imprisonment; and psychoanalysis; psychological trauma inflicted for political purposes; racial contract and the rise of modernity; real world as fable and picture; and repetition compulsion; and “self-defense”; and sexism; and time collapse; war as “acting out” of trauma. See also recovery from traumatic events; September 11; state violence
Trauma and Recovery (Herman)
Trento, Joe
truth and reconciliation commissions; and countertransference; and mourning; narrative vs. forensic truths; and psychoanalysis; and reestablishment of public sphere; and restoration of public being and public space; in South Africa; and “talking cure”; witnessing as a political act
Truth v. Justice (Rothberg and Thompson, eds.)
tsunami of 2004
turning against the self, as defense mechanism
Tutu, Desmond, Archbishop
Twilight of the Idols (Nietzsche)
unconscious: Lacan’s view of the unconscious as structured like a language; peripheries of consciousness and the unconscious public sphere. See also political unconscious
unconscious freedom
undoing, as defense mechanism
United States: clampdown on public sphere due to perceived internal threats in post-9/11 U.S.; Defense Planning Guide; Defense Strategy for the 1990s; deliberative polling,; and end of Cold War; failure to use tools of democracy after 9/11; green room conversations; hegemony; Iraq war; isolationist policies; McCarthyism; political polarization; and repetition compulsion; repressive policies; and September 11; and sovereignty; as traumatized country; unilateral actions as violation of international ideal; unofficial dialogue with the Soviet Union during Cold War; wars. See also war on terror
venues for deliberation. See deliberative forums
video blogging
violence: conflict fueled by religion and identity politics; modernity as product of violent traumas. See also state violence; trauma
Viroli, Maurizio
Volkan, Vamik
voting
Walzer, Michael
war: as “acting out” of trauma; civil wars; and failure of sublimation; and international public sphere; preemptive strikes; as a repetition compulsion; and silencing of public sphere; war crimes; war on citizens as war on the public sphere
war on terror: as “acting out” of trauma; and failure to use tools of democracy after 9/11; and loss of U.S. standing in international order; as a repetition compulsion
Warner, Michael
Warren, Mark
ways of knowing
Weber, Max
white supremacy
Why Americans Hate Politics (Dionne)
wiki format
will to power
Willett, Cynthia
witnessing; and blogosphere; and countertransference; effect on observers; justice as recognition; and mourning; Oliver on; as political act,; and restoration of public being and public space; and subjectivity; working through trauma through narrative
Witnessing (Oliver)
Wittig, Monique
Wolfowitz, Paul
Wolin, Sheldon
women. See feminist theory
“World Have Your Say” (BBC interactive program)
worldview: ancient worldview; disenchantment of the world; real world as fable and picture; and traditional societies
Yankelovich, Daniel
Young, Iris Marion
Zaretsky, Eli
Zerilli, Linda
Zuckerman, Ethan