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post-democratic en · ADJ

Pronunciation

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Etymology

From post- + democratic.

Meanings

1. Pertaining to a society where democratic procedure is only superficially relevant.
   • Bong interrogates the superficiality of the parliamentary democracy and reveals how the preexisting system of social ills and corruption has been maintained and has even intensified in postdemocratic Korean society. 2020, Nam Lee, “Introduction”, in The Films of Bong Joon Ho (Global Film Directors), New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, →DOI, page 8:
   • Pervasive postdemocratic attitudes and political indifference have enabled Britta Söldner and her business partner Babak Hamwi to develop a new business model. Their company Brücke (Bridge), ostensibly a therapeutic practice for patients with suicidal thoughts, is in reality just a front for an employment agency for suicide bombers. 2019, Anne Fuchs, “Epilogue: Presentist Dystopias or the Case for Environmental Humanities”, in Precarious Times (Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought), Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, →DOI, page 283:
   • Such expressions of depoliticising solidarity can be further explained by the critical analysis of contemporary (Western) democracy as postpolitical or postdemocratic. This is because, as it seems, these statements suspend a culture of political debate and conflict in favour of questions about individual lifestyles and consumerist choices. 2022, Sebastian Garbe, “A Critique of Whiteness and Maputhusiasm in Solidarity”, in Weaving Solidarity. Decolonial Perspectives on Transnational Advocacy of and with the Mapuche (Edition Politik; 123), Bielefeld: transcript, →DOI, page 220:

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