Democracy Here and Now - Pablo Ouziel

Democracy Here and Now

The Exemplary Case of Spain

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
216 Seiten
2022
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-1-4875-4317-4 (ISBN)
53,60 inkl. MwSt
Democracy Here and Now presents a detailed account of the 15M Movement in Spain – one of the important participatory democracies of the early twenty-first century.
In Spain, on May 15, 2011, a movement against austerity measures began. In a time when representative democracies were under threat, 15M came to life as a virtuous and democratic response to the slide into far-right populism and authoritarianism. More than a social movement, 15M became a mode of being with transformative, democratizing potential.

In Democracy Here and Now, Pablo Ouziel offers a grounded analysis of 15M. At the time of the movement and during the ensuing encampments, Ouziel travelled extensively, speaking to participants, and keeping an ongoing record of his conversations. Presenting an original participatory mode of research, the book reveals six types of intersubjective, "joining hands" relationships that 15M has brought into being and works to carry on in creative ways. The book shows how the movement’s way of being and temporality persists in Spain following the square occupations, while 15M citizens continue to learn and move forward in less perceptible ways.

Democracy Here and Now sheds light on a deeply relational, intersectional, and eco-social mode of democracy, and shows how 15M’s ongoing democratization practices are exemplary of similar grassroots movements around the world, broadening our understandings of what it means to be democratic in the here and now.

Pablo Ouziel is an associate fellow at the Centre for Global Studies at the University of Victoria and a visiting fellow in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Southampton. James Tully is emeritus distinguished professor of Political Science, Law, Indigenous Governance, and Philosophy at the University of Victoria.

Acknowledgments
Foreword: James Tully 
Visiting 15M locales across Spain
Six distinct types of joining hands relationships

Introduction
Studying democracies: Learning via examples and exemplarity

1. Exercising power together as equals
2. Roots and routes of Spain’s counter-modernity
3. Constructing alternative futures on shoestring budgets
4. Engaging state-based representative government

Conclusion
5. Democracy here and now

Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Vorwort James Tully
Zusatzinfo 1 b&w map
Verlagsort Toronto
Sprache englisch
Maße 159 x 235 mm
Gewicht 440 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Theorie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-4875-4317-4 / 1487543174
ISBN-13 978-1-4875-4317-4 / 9781487543174
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