Common Hegemony, Populism, and the New Municipalism - Democratic Alter-Politics and Transformative Strategies

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.

List of contents

Introduction; 1 Mapping Democratic Alter-Politics; 2 Democratic Alter-Politics: Context and Strategic Predicaments; 3 Counter-Hegemonic Strategy for Building Collective Agency: Revisiting Gramsci and Laclau & Mouffe; 4 Another Leadership for Common Hegemony; 5 Common Hegemony and Populism 2.0; 6 New Municipalism as Alter-Political Strategy of Organization and Institutional Engagement: The Case of Spain; 7 Italian Paths to Urban Commoning: Other Strategies of Common Hegemony; Epilogue: Political Organization for an Alter-Political Hegemony

About the author

Alexandros Kioupkiolis is Associate Professor in Contemporary Political Theory at Aristotle University, Greece. His research interests are on modern philosophies of freedom, contemporary philosophies of justice, theories of democracy, analyses, and critiques of power.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Alexandros Kioupkiolis, Alexandros (Aristotle University of T Kioupkiolis, Kioupkiolis Alexandros
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.12.2022
• EAN: 9781032206769
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3220676-9
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Routledge Advances in Democratic Theory
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Social & political philosophy, Political science & theory, social and political philosophy, Political structures: democracy, Political science and theory