Radical Democracy and Its Limits

Matijasevich, David

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“…Rather, it provides a general way of making sense of the necessary potential for conflict. The perspective I develop here is therefore less concerned with why certain fugitive events may emerge (Matijasevich 2019) and more concerned with the overall set of social practices that regulate how the necessary potential for conflict is staged and ascribed meaning in society at large. Instead of focusing on the individual protest march, we can ask how protest as a general practice expresses the necessary potential for conflict.…”

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A Sociological Perspective on the Experience of Contention

Gøtzsche-Astrup

2022

Sociological Theory

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Contention in the form of protests, riots, and direct action is a central political practice in contemporary democracies. It is also a staple of sociological analysis, after slowly crystallizing as a distinct object of analysis from the 1970s onward. Lately, however, it has become unclear what this distinctiveness consists of and how it may help guide studies of contention: What distinguishes contention from other practices? I argue that contention can be seen as an ontologically distinctive experience. What sets this experience apart is that it expresses a potential for conflict that underlies all social formations. We can take these expressions of conflict as objects of analysis. This means asking how the conflict expressed in contentious practices is ascribed meaning. I develop this perspective theoretically and show how it may facilitate new empirical analyses of contention’s boundaries, its relation to truth, and ethical relations in contention.

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A Sociological Perspective on the Experience of Contention

Gøtzsche-Astrup

2022

Sociological Theory

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“…6 However, I do not necessarily suggest a political strategy of hegemony based on the democratic difference, which implies a quest for an alternative hegemonic project that would constitutes a new sovereign entity (Kioupkiolis 2011). Nor do I seek to propose an alternative model of democracy, as for example, Mouffe's (2000Mouffe's ( , 2005 concept of 'agonism', which would offer an approach to radical democracy that is very close to liberal regimes of democracy and that has been criticized for limiting democratic practices (Matijasevich 2019;Singh 2019). My approach rather focuses on radical democracy as practice.…”

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“…I therefore contribute to debates on variants of radical democracy (Tønder and Thomassen 2005), by proposing my approach of a theory of radical democracy as practice as an alternative to the often-criticized concepts of radical democracy as a strategy of hegemony in the sense of Laclau (Kioupkiolis 2011) or a political regime of agonism as proposed by Mouffe (Matijasevich 2019). However, I still build my approach within a framework of antagonistic social theory, developed in particular by Laclau and Mouffe (2001).…”

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Radical democratic theory and migration: The Refugee Protest March as a democratic practice

Schwiertz

2021

Philosophy & Social Criticism

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In dominant discourses, migrants are mostly perceived as either victims or villains but rarely as political subjects and democratic constituents. Challenging this view, the aim of the article is to rethink democracy with respect to migration struggles. I argue that movements of migration are not only consistent with democracy but also provide a decisive impetus for actualizing democratic principles in the context of debates about the crisis of representation and post-democracy. Drawing on the work of Jacques Rancière, Étienne Balibar and Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, I develop a theory of radical democracy as practice, which, starting from the proposed notion of ‘democratic difference’, goes beyond the fixation on democratic regimes and focuses on contentious practices of enacting democratic principles. I articulate these theoretical concepts by analysing how refugees in Germany have managed to break out of a marginalized position and have challenged their denial of rights through a protest march.

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Reimagining Radical Democracy in the Global South

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Tamayo Gomez

2024

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Radical democracy informs contemporary social movements both as critique of existing liberal democratic social orders and as inspiration for collective action to challenge power structures. However, existing approaches on the relationship between radical democracy and social movements often truncate complex socio-political issues, constraining political imagination and stifling 'truly radical' alternatives. This Element offers an analysis of contemporary social movements in Colombia and Turkey to show the limits and potential of radical democracy to reimagine new expressions of citizenship and non-capitalist alternatives. It argues that there is a mismatch between the radical democratic paradigm as it is formulated within Eurocentric purview, and the ways it has been articulated and practised by anti-austerity and pro-democracy movements of the twenty-first century. We propose that radical democracy should be rethought in light of novel forms of political activism and visions emerging from these social movements as a response to the failures of liberal democracy.

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Radical Democracy and Its Limits

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A Sociological Perspective on the Experience of Contention

A Sociological Perspective on the Experience of Contention

Radical democratic theory and migration: The Refugee Protest March as a democratic practice

Reimagining Radical Democracy in the Global South

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