Heather Pool is an Associate Professor of Politics and Public Affairs at Denison University in Ohio.
“Heather Pool’s philosophically rich, insightful, and moving book
asks us to see political mourning as a practice of placing ordinary
deaths in the service of political change and thus potentially
binding us together in a practice of collective responsibility that
acknowledges our complicity in those deaths. By the end
of Political Mourning, one cannot help but feel that Pool
has offered us something more beyond the cases she examines. She
has provided us with nothing short of an ethical-political
orientation for reckoning with the tragedy of our past. For anyone
interested in the health of democracy, this is a book you must
read!”
—Melvin Rogers, Associate Professor of Political Science at
Brown University, and coeditor of African American Political
Thought: A Collected History
“With rigorous argumentation and compelling
examples, Political Mourning shows how publics and
political identities are formed by responses to loss. It is a
stunning work of political theory that will appeal to the field as
a whole. Pool makes an exciting contribution to the existing
literature on mourning and politics. It is an essential text that
all those working in this area will have to engage.”
—Simon Stow, Marshall Professor of Government and American
Studies at the College of William and Mary, and author
of American Mourning: Tragedy, Democracy, and Resilience
Ask a Question About this Product More... |