1st Edition

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

By Alexandros Kioupkiolis Copyright 2023
232 Pages
by Routledge

232 Pages
by Routledge

232 Pages
by Routledge

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. Staging an alternative to mainstream politics in both its statist and its activist variants,... Read more

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

Biography

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.