Prefigurative Democracy Protest, Social Movements and the Political Institution of Society

Introduces the key aspects of a theoretical debate on prefigurative politics and contemporary protest movements Develops a theory of prefigurative democracy as a way of thinking critically about contemporary protest movements Engages with the work of various radical political theorists, such as Aren...

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Main Author: van de Sande, Mathijs
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press 2022, ©2023
Series:Taking on the Political
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505 0 |a Introduction ‘It’s prefigurative, so to speak’ 1 Chapter 1 A New Society in the Shell of the Old 19 Chapter 2 Beginnings Without Ends 47 Chapter 3 From the Assembly to Council Democracy: Towards a Prefigurative Form of Government? 74 Chapter 4 Embodiment: Prefiguration and Synecdochal Representation 101 Chapter 5 Sedimentation and Crystallisation: Two Metaphors for Political Change 130 Conclusion: What Is Prefigurative Democracy? 
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520 3 |a Introduces the key aspects of a theoretical debate on prefigurative politics and contemporary protest movements Develops a theory of prefigurative democracy as a way of thinking critically about contemporary protest movements Engages with the work of various radical political theorists, such as Arendt, Laclau and Mouffe and (post-)anarchist theory Combines an analysis of activist practices with both state-of-the-art and canonical radical theory In the wake of protest movements such as Occupy Wall Street and the Spanish 15-M movement, the past decade has seen an increased interest in prefigurative politics: the attempt of activists to already realise or embody their ideal of a future society within their own movements and practices. Engaging with the concept and its history, this book establishes a radical-democratic theory of prefiguration. Van de Sande builds on the work of political theorists as diverse as Hannah Arendt, Ernesto Laclau, Claude Lefort, Rosa Luxemburg, and Judith Butler to reveal the radical and representative role of protest and social movements today. He gives various accounts of how prefigurative practices and movements may continue to have political relevance long after they have ended.