Liquid democracy : a comparative study of digital urban democracy / Yu-Shan Tseng.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tseng, Yu-Shan, Author.

Contributor:

Wiley InterScience (Online service)

Series:

Antipode book series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Democracy--Technological innovations.

Democracy.

Municipal government--Technological innovations.

Municipal government.

Urban policy--Citizen participation.

Urban policy.

Digital media--Political aspects.

Digital media.

Internet in public administration.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxv, 198 pages)

Place of Publication:

Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2025.

Contents:

List of Figures and Table

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Approaching Democracy from the Field

1 Democracy in the Age of Platformisation

1.1 Reproblematising Democracy in the Age of Platformisation

1.2 Meeting 'Differences' of Democracy at the Intersections

1.3 Democratisations, Occupy Movements and Global Circulations

1.4 A Liquid Comparison and Epistemology

1.5 Liquid Conditions for Democracy in Digital and Urban Worlds

2 Dissolving Democratic Theories into Larger Worlds

2.1 Correct Ontologies, Normative Claims and Universal Assumptions in Democratic Theories

2.1.1 Aggregative democracy

2.1.2 Participatory democracy and consensus democracy

2.1.3 Radical democracy

2.1.4 Digital democracies the slippery tyranny of normative principles

2.1.5 Feminist and post-colonial democracy

2.1.6 Post-structuralist democracy Jacques Derrida

2.2 Democracy In-The- World Ontologies: More- Than-Human, Liquidity and Multiplicity

2.2.1 Democracy as convergent movements: between different powers and times

2.2.2 Plural democracy keeping political boundaries fluid

2.2.3 Everyday/ordinary democracy

2.3 From a Correct Democracy to Democratic Multiplicity

3 DDPs at Comparative Conjunctures

3.1 Movements, Calculus and Futures

3.2 Convergent Democratic Movements Underpinning the DDPs

3.2.1 Madrid: between political consensus and (dis) alliance for democracy

3.2.2 Taipei: political consensus for democratisation and neoliberal development

3.2.3 Helsinki: political consensus around Finlandisation and neoliberal urbanisation

3.3 On Risk Calculus and Democratic Futures

3.3.1 vTaiwan: securing an undivided democratic future against geopolitical tension

3.3.2 Decide Madrid and OmaStadi: global neoliberal futures for the simple majority

3.3.3 Uncounted democratic futures in urban and digital worlds

3.4 Orienting Towards Different Democratic Futures

4 Frictions for Care Democracy

4.1 Gamification as a New Digital Solution and Environment for Democracy

4.2 Friction as Contestations

4.2.1 Decide Madrid

4.2.2 OmaStadi

4.2.3 vTaiwan

4.3 Tactical Friction: Power, Knowledge Inequalities and Care

4.3.1 Decide Madrid

4.3.2 OmaStadi

4.3.3 vTaiwan

4.4 Frictions as Ordinary Rhythms for Care Democracy

5 Algorithmic Reordering for Plural Democracy

5.1 Reordering as a Liquid Condition for Plural Democracy

5.2 vTaiwan: Reordering Plural Opinions for Uber Legalisation

5.2.1 Plural Opinions from Algorithmic Reordering

5.2.2 Human in the Making of the Binary Propositions

5.3 Decide Madrid: Reordering Issues into Urban Services and Infrastructures

5.3.1 (Re)ordering majoritarian urban issues

5.3.2 En Route to Institutional Implementation

5.4 Reordering in Decision-Making for Liquid Plural Democracy

6 Urban Thrown-Togetherness for Ordinary Democracy

6.1 Introduction

6.2 Challenging Neoliberal Trends in Helsinki

6.2.1 A social experiment for the everyday struggles of drug abusers

6.2.2 When welfare services fade away the elderly's struggles over budget-cutting

6.2.3 Fighting against time to save an urban cultural space from decay and privatisation

6.3 Decide Madrid: Collective Presence for Alternative Urban Futures

6.3.1 A la Nave Daoiz y Velarde

6.3.2 Weaving layers of knowledge into alternative urban futures the Legazpi market

6.4 Thrown-togetherness in Liquid Temporal-Geographies for Ordinary Democracy

7 Moving on with Liquid Democracy

7.1 Seeing Democracy Like Water

7.2 Becoming with the Liquid Worlds for Policymaking

7.3 Where to Look for Democratic Futures

References

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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