Common Hegemony, Populism, and the New Municipalism critically explores the global rise of an alternative democratic politics since the 1990s in both practice and theory, from the Zapatistas’ insurrection to the 2011 cycle of democratic contestation and the ensuing municipalist movement in Spain.
Staging an alternative to mainstream politics in both its statist and its activist variants, Alexandros Kioupkiolis combines a comprehensive and in-depth account of contemporary alter-politics with an extensive treatment of strategic challenges and broaches the question of strategy through theories of hegemony which are revisited and renewed by taking our lead from contemporary social movements and practices. Specific movements such as 15-M, and new municipalism, are examined to understand how these have transfigured the counter-hegemonic politics in the direction of egalitarianism, diversity, and grassroots self-government.
Common Hegemony, Populism, and the New Municipalism will be of interest to researchers and students of contemporary political theory, democratic theory, and social movement studies.
Author(s): Alexandros Kioupkiolis
Series: Routledge Advances in Democratic Theory
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 232
City: New York
Cover
Half Title
Series Information
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
References
1 Mapping Democratic Alter-Politics
Outlining the Concept
An Alter-Political Zeitgeist, From the Zapatistas’ Otra Política to the Middle East
Alter-political Vision, Logics and Ethics
Let’s Have Fun! Joyful Activism and Alter-Political Affect
Alter-politics and the Strategic Challenges Ahead
References
2 Democratic Alter-Politics: Context and Strategic Predicaments
The Historical Situation: Post-Democracy and Neoliberal Hegemony
Political Strategies for Expansive Alter-Politics (I): the Three-Faced Dionysus
Political Strategies for Expansive Alter-Politics (II): Eroding the Hegemonic System
Strategic Convergences and Quandaries
References
3 Counter-Hegemonic Strategy for Building Collective Agency: Revisiting Gramsci and Laclau & Mouffe
Gramsci On Hegemony and Counter-Hegemony
Revisiting Post-Marxist Hegemony for Democratic Alter-Politics
Hegemony at the Turn of the 21st Century
Agonistic Hegemony
Clearing the Way for an Alter-Political Hegemony
References
4 Another Leadership for Common Hegemony
Another Leadership
Another Leadership Through the Assembly Form
Another Leadership Through Technopolitics
Another Leadership Through Institutional Rules, Reflexivity and Another Ethos
Another Leadership Through Feminization
Leading in Common
References
5 Common Hegemony and Populism 2.0
Why Populism?
New Movements Towards Populism 2.0
The Political Logic of Populism
People 2.0
The Populist Soul of 15M
Populism 2.0 and the Queer Common: the Paradigmatic Case of 15M
Populism 2.0: What Difference Does It Make?
Note
References
6 New Municipalism as Alter-Political Strategy of Organization and Institutional Engagement: The Case of Spain
The Alternative Tradition of Council Democracy and Municipalism
The Alter-Political Municipalist Movement in Action
.unicipal Confluences in Spain, 2015–2019
The Example of Barcelona En Comú
Drawing a First Balance
Spanish New Municipalism and Common Hegemony
Note
References
7 Italian Paths to Urban Commoning: Other Strategies of Common Hegemony
.ntroducing Commons in Italian Cities: Institutions, Law and Movements
Commoning in Italian Cities: the Constituent Power of Social Movements and the Ecology of Law
Commoning in Italian Cities: Municipal Regulations, Facilitating Institutions and Active Citizenship
Commoning in Italian Cities: the Bologna Process From the Angle of Grassroots Counter-Hegemony
Commoning in Italian Cities: the ‘Neapolitan Way’ of Civic Use
Reflecting On Common Hegemony in the Italian Style
Note
References
Epilogue: Political Organization for an Alter-Political Hegemony
References
Index
