Prefigurative democracy : protest, social movements and the political institution of society / Mathijs van de Sande.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sande, Mathijs van de, author.

Series:

Taking on the political.

Taking on the political

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social movements.

Protest movements.

Democracy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 203 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2023.

Summary:

In the wake of protest movements such as Occupy Wall Street and the Spanish 15-M movement, the past decade has seen an increased interest in prefigurative politics: the attempt of activists to already realise or embody their ideal of a future society within their own movements and practices. Engaging with the concept and its history, this book establishes a radical-democratic theory of prefiguration. Van de Sande builds on the work of political theorists as diverse as Hannah Arendt, Ernesto Laclau, Claude Lefort, Rosa Luxemburg, and Judith Butler to reveal the radical and representative role of protest and social movements today. He gives various accounts of how prefigurative practices and movements may continue to have political relevance long after they have ended.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction ‘It’s prefigurative, so to speak’

Chapter 1 A New Society in the Shell of the Old

Chapter 2 Beginnings Without Ends

Chapter 3 From the Assembly to Council Democracy: Towards a Prefigurative Form of Government?

Chapter 4 Embodiment: Prefiguration and Synecdochal Representation

Chapter 5 Sedimentation and Crystallisation: Two Metaphors for Political Change

Conclusion: What Is Prefigurative Democracy?

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2023.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 2, 2023).

Other Format:

Print version: van de Sande, Mathijs Prefigurative Democracy

ISBN:

1-4744-5188-8

1-4744-5187-X

OCLC:

1352970362