Radical Democracy and Collective Movements Today

The Biopolitics of the Multitude versus the Hegemony of the People
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-4094-7052-6
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 564 g

The 'Arab spring', the Spanish indignados, the Greek aganaktismenoi and the Occupy Wall Street movement all share a number of distinctive traits; they made extensive use of social networking and were committed to the direct democratic participation of all as they co-ordinated and conducted their actions. Leaderless and self-organized, they were socially and ideologically heterogeneous, dismissing fixed agendas or ideologies. Still, the assembled multitudes that animated these mobilizations often claimed to speak in the name of ’the people’, and they aspired to empowered forms of egalitarian self-government in common. Similar features have marked collective resistances from the Zapatistas and the Seattle protests onwards, giving rise to theoretical and practical debates over the importance of these ideological and political forms. By engaging with the controversy between the autonomous, biopolitical ’multitude’ of Hardt and Negri and the arguments in favour of the hegemony of ’the people’ advanced by J. Rancière, E. Laclau, C. Mouffe and S. Zizek the central aim of this book is to discuss these instances of collective mobilization, to probe the innovative practices and ideas they have developed and to debate their potential to reinvigorate democracy whilst seeking something better than ’disaster capitalism’.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kioupkiolis, Alexandros

Katsambekis, Giorgos

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Interessengruppen, Lobbyismus und Protestbewegungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction, Alexandros Kioupkiolis, Giorgos Katsambekis; Chapter 1 Post-hegemony: Politics Outside the Usual Post-Marxist Paradigm, Benjamin Arditi; Chapter 2 Letter to a Greek Anarchist: On Multitudes, Peoples, and New Empires, Richard J.F. Day, Nick Montgomery; Chapter 3 Sovereignty of the People, Jodi Dean; Chapter 4 Occupy and Autonomous Political Life, Saul Newman; Chapter 5 Hegemony or Post-hegemony? Discourse, Representation and the Revenge(s) of the Real, Yannis Stavrakakis; Chapter 6 Generalized Antagonism and Political Ontology in the Debate between Laclau and Negri, Paul Rekret; Chapter 7 A Hegemony of the Multitude: Muddling the Lines, Alexandros Kioupkiolis; Chapter 8 The Multitudinous Moment(s) of the People: Democratic Agency Disrupting Established Binarisms, Giorgos Katsambekis; Chapter 9 Representation and Political Space in Laclau and Hardt and Negri, Andy Knott; Chapter 10 Autonomy and Hegemony in the Squares: The 2011 Protests in Greece and Spain, Marina Prentoulis, Lasse Thomassen;

Über Autor(innen)

Dr Alexandros Kioupkiolis is a lecturer in contemporary political theory at the Faculty of Law, Economics & Political Sciences of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. Previously, he has also taught political philosophy at the University of Cyprus. He has studied Political Theory at the Universities of Essex (MA) and Oxford (DPhil). Giorgios Katsambekis studied Political Science at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, where he also received his MA degree in Political Analysis in autumn 2009. He is a PhD candidate at the School of Political Sciences of the same university.