All Claims Are Representative Claims: Response to Thomás Zicman de Barros. Issue 2 (3rd April 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Thomassen, Lasse
• Is Part Of: Representation. Volume 58:Issue 2(2022)
• Page Start: 311
• Page End: 318
• Publication Date: 2022-04-03
• Subjects: Jornadas de Junho -- post-representation -- representative claim -- Michael Saward -- Gayatri Spivak; Elections -- Periodicals; Representative government and representation -- Periodicals; 324
• DOI: 10.1080/00344893.2021.1931952
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0034-4893

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This response to Thomás Zicman de Barros argues that so-called post-representative movements do not avoid representation as speaking for. A deconstructive reading of Gayatri Spivak's distinction between Darstellung and Vertretung shows that, while they cannot be reduced to one another, they nonetheless imply one another. As a result, post-representative movements such as the 2013 Brazilian Jornadas de Junho movement do not escape representation as speaking-for.