Democracy Without Politics in EU Citizen Participation 1st Edition

Democracy Without Politics in EU Citizen Participation 1st Edition – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9783031385827,9783031385834,3031385829,3031385837

Product details:

• ISBN-10: 3031385837 
• ISBN-13: 9783031385834
• Author: Alvaro Oleart

How does the dominant understanding(s) of the demo(i)cratic subject in the EU, and of democracy more broadly, shape the EU’s democratic innovations on ‘citizen participation’? What are the politically and normatively preferable alternatives, both in terms of the conceptualisation of the democratic subject in the EU and in the ensuing political practices? The book addresses these questions combining a political theory with a political sociology perspective, contrasting the ‘democracy without politics’ approach of the EU in the context of the Conference on the Future of Europe with that of ongoing transnational activist processes. 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.

Table contents:

1. Passive Revolutions and the Future of the EU: Democratic Theorising and the ‘Decolonial Multitude’
2. From European Demoi to the Decolonial Multitude: Democratising the EU’s Political Imaginary
3. The Genealogy of the ‘Citizen Turn’ in the EU: The European Citizen Consultations, the Citizen Dialogues and the Antipolitical Imaginary
4. Democracy Without Politics in the Conference on the Future of Europe: The Political Architecture, Process and Recommendations
5. Individualised Technodeliberation in the CoFoE European Citizens’ Panels: The Presence of the Absence of the European Demoi
6. The Institutional ‘Success’ of the CoFoE via the ‘New Generation’ Citizen Panels: The European Commission Leads the Public-Private ‘Citizen Turn’
7. “The Lost Art of Organising Solidarity”: Articulating the Decolonial Multitude in the EU (and Beyond)
8. The Contrast Between the EU’s Technocratic Conception of ‘Citizen Participation’ and the Democratic Pluralism of the Decolonial Multitude

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