Democracy Without Politics in EU Citizen Participation From European Demoi to Decolonial Multitude

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Oleart, Alvaro
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Palgrave Macmillan 2023, 2023
Edition:1st ed. 2023
Series:Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1- Passive revolutions and the future of the EU: democratic theorising and the ‘decolonial multitude’
  • Chapter 2- From a European ‘people(s)’ to the decolonial multitude: Democratising the EU’s political imaginary
  • Chapter 3-The political and ideological genealogy of the ‘citizen’ turn in the EU: The European Citizen Consultations, the citizen dialogues and the antipolitical imaginary
  • Chapter 4-Democracy without politics in the Conference on the Future of Europe: The political architecture, process and recommendations
  • Chapter 5- The presence of the absence of the EU people(s): Individualised Technodeliberation in the CoFoE European Citizens’ Panels
  • Chapter 6- The institutional ‘success’ of the CoFoE via the ‘new generation’ citizen panels: The European Commission leads the public-private ‘citizen turn’
  • Chapter 7- “The lost art of organising (transnational) solidarity”: Articulating the decolonial multitude in the EU (and beyond)
  • Chapter 8-The contrast between the EU’s technocratic conception of ‘citizen participation’ and the democratic pluralism of the decolonial multitude