Democracy without politics in EU citizin participation : from European demoi to decolonial multitude / Alvaro Oleart.
Oleart, Alvaro.
2023
KJE5124
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Democracy without politics in EU citizin participation : from European demoi to decolonial multitude / Alvaro Oleart.
Author
Oleart, Alvaro.
ISBN
9783031385834 (electronic bk.)
3031385837 (electronic bk.)
3031385829
9783031385827
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38583-4
Publication Details
Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Language
English
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1 online resource.
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10.1007/978-3-031-38583-4 doi
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KJE5124
Dewey Decimal Classification
323.6094
Summary
If you want to understand how we might move from political passivity to unlock decolonial and revolutionary action at a European scale, this is a book for you. Niccol Milanese, European Alternatives Combining innovative democratic theory with empirically rich narratives, Oleart has found an ingenious way of contrasting the depoliticized nature of the EUs citizen turn with fully politicized transnational social movements. A real tour de force and a must-read for all those interested in the question of how to democratize the EU. Vivien A. Schmidt, Boston University, USA Through the original and powerful concept of the decolonial multitude, Oleart provides an empirically grounded critique of the citizen turn in European politics. Jan Orbie, Ghent University, Belgium How does the dominant understanding(s) of the demo(i)cratic subject in the EU, and of democracy more broadly, shape the EUs democratic innovations on citizen participation? What are the politically and normatively preferable alternatives, both in terms of the conceptualisation of the democratic subject in the EU and in the ensuing political practices? The book addresses these questions combining a political theory with a political sociology perspective, contrasting the Democracy Without Politics approach of the EU in the context of the Conference on the Future of Europe and its institutional follow-up with that of ongoing transnational activist processes. In doing so, it develops an agonistic alternative to the people(s) as the political imaginary of democracy in the EU, which is based on the idea of the decolonial multitude. Thus, the book puts forward a diagnosis of current debates on EU democratic legitimacy as well as proposing an alternative. Alvaro Oleart is a researcher at the Department of Political Science and the Institute for European Studies of the Universit Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. He is the author of Framing TTIP in the European Public Spheres: Towards an Empowering Dissensus for EU integration (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), also published in the Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology series. .
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Palgrave studies in European political sociology.
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DEMOCRACY WITHOUT POLITICS IN EU CITIZEN PARTICIPATION.
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Intro
Acknowledgements
Contents
List of Figures
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1 Passive Revolutions and the Future of the EU: Democratic Theorising and the 'Decolonial Multitude'
1 Introduction
2 Gramsci's Passive Revolution: From the Italian Risorgimento to Sortition-Based 'Descriptive Representation' in the EU
3 A Politically Engaged Conceptual, Normative and Empirical Perspective: Democratic Theorising and the 'Decolonial Multitude'
4 Challenging the "coloniality of power" in mainstream conceptions of 'citizen participation': decolonising the 'we' in democracy

5 Summary of the Book Through the Articulation of the Different Chapters
Bibliography
2 From European Demoi to the Decolonial Multitude: Democratising the EU's Political Imaginary
1 EU Democracy, Decolonisation and the Agonistic Public Sphere
1.1 Democratic Legitimacy in the EU: The Opportunity of Politicisation to Bring Agonism
2 Multitude Over Peoplehood: The Tension Between Sovereignty and Democracy
2.1 The 'Decolonial Multitude' as the 'We' of Democracy
2.2 Decolonial Multitude vs Sovereignty: A Non-Contractualist Conception of EU Democracy

2.3 The 'Decolonial Multitude' in the EU: Democratising Traditional Notions of 'Representation' Through Mediation
2.4 Articulating the Decolonial Multitude in Opposition to Existing Material Structures and Coloniality
3 Why the Decolonial Multitude Now? New Intergovernmentalism and Populism in the EU
3.1 Democracy, Sovereignty and 'the People' in the EU: The Revolution from Above of New Intergovernmentalism
3.2 The Decolonial Multitude as a Transnational and Pluralist Alternative to Populism

4 Conclusion: Stimulating Agonistic EU Politicisation Through a Decolonial Multitude Perspective
Bibliography
3 The Genealogy of the 'Citizen Turn' in the EU: The European Citizen Consultations, the Citizen Dialogues and the Antipolitical Imaginary
1 From the 'Participatory' to the 'Citizen Turn' in the European Union
2 The Relationship Between Deliberative and Agonistic Democracy: The Antipolitical Imaginary vs Mediation
3 From the EP agoras, Citizen Dialogues and the European Citizen Consultations (2008-2018) to the Conference on the Future of Europe (2019-2022)

4 'Citizenism' as an Alternative to an Agonistic European Public Sphere in the EU's 'Citizen Turn'
4.1 The Missing Micro-macro Link: EU 'Citizen Participation' as 'Democracy Without Politics'
4.2 Disintermediation as Another Form of (Private) Mediation: The Social Construction of 'Everyday People' and the Commodification of Democracy
5 Conclusion: The 'Citizen Turn' Reinforces the Preexistent Depoliticised EU Political Dynamics
Bibliography
4 Democracy Without Politics in the Conference on the Future of Europe: The Political Architecture, Process and Recommendations

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