An Interview with Bonnie Honig

There are so many present practical political issues to address!! War, violence, terror, emergency politics, statelessness, global inequality, gender inequality, economic and environmental disaster, the ethics and politics of current practices of production and consumption, racism, prejudice of all sorts -- one hardly knows where to begin to answer such a question. In Emergency Politics, I argue that in the face of emergency, democratic theory of late tends toward two responses: we either question the reality, the facticity of the emergency, arguing that there is no international network of terror or we turn to legal means, and insist that the best way to deal with violence is by way of proper, procedural justice or the broadening of an international rule of law.