![]() ![]() There is a politics to mourning: distributions of bodies and communities that are more or less vulnerable to suffering and death struggles to make these disparities salient and to challenge them and overarching cycles of contestation over the meaning and praxis of mourning in, and for, democracy. While only some of the contributions directly confront the question of death and democracy during a pandemic, all speak to the ways that loss, grief, and politics are intertwined – something that the current crisis has made abundantly clear. ![]() As this exchange was coming together, the virus was beginning its spread. Yet in this particular moment it is impossible to think about the linkages between politics and grief outside the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic. Political theorists have increasingly turned to mourning as a prism through which to view the differential politics of grief and grievance (for an overview see McIvor and Hirsch, 2019). In this Critical Exchange, political theorists and philosophers of the contemporary condition were asked to reflect on the politics of mourning. ![]() Sorrows – like benevolent angels – lift the veils from my life. ![]()
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