Real Democracy Occupy: No Stable Ground

ISBN-13: 9780367596125 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 194 str.

Anna Szolucha

Opis

This book takes an engaged and in-depth look at the Occupy movement in Ireland and the San Francisco Bay Area in the US in order to present the most up-to-date evidence of the changing nature of popular democratic demands.

Spis treści

Introduction

1. Social Movements and the Crisis of Democracy

2. What is Impossible is Real: Derrida, Lacan and a quest for real democracy

3. Social Movements in Reality: Approaches to movement research

4. Learning Consensus Decision-Making in Occupy: Uncertainty, responsibility, commitment

5. Living Real Democracy in Occupy: From prefigurative politics to living temporalities

6. Real Politics in Occupy: Transcending the rules of the day

Conclusion: History, reality and future of direct democracy in Occupy

 

 

O autorze

Anna Szolucha is Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow at the University of Bergen, Norway. She has many years of experience as a participant in social movements and a keen interest, both personally and professionally, in direct democracy. She has published in Globalizations; Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change and Interface.