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Record Nr.

UNINA9910220024003321

Titolo

Shifting Baselines of Europe : New Perspectives beyond Neoliberalism and Nationalism / European Alternatives Limited, Daphne Büllesbach, Marta Cillero, Lukas Stolz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2017

ISBN

9783837639544

3837639541

9783839439548

383943954X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (215 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

X-Texte zu Kultur und Gesellschaft

Classificazione

MC 7100

Disciplina

320

Soggetti

European Union

Europe

Future

Alternative Democracy

Nationalism

Neoliberalism

Economics of Commons

Refugee Policy

Counter-Surveillance

European Alternatives

Emancipatory Projects

Civil Society

Politics

European Politics

Democracy

Urban Studies

Political Science

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter    1 Contents    5 Note from the editors    9 Shifting the



baselines    15 Our European incapacity    18 Our European capacity. Which Europe do we want? Rediscovering Hannah Arendt's concept of integral federalism    26 Introduction    35 The magnet and the container. A transnational space of expression for "Cities of change" through Europe    37 The cities want them in. For a revised common European refugee policy to revive the European Union    42 Rebel cities are not utopia    45 Institutions mean inertia    49 Moment of confluence on the Atlantic coast    57 This is how you win an election    62 Forerunners of Italian municipalism    70 Don't let them d(r)own    74 Cities rejecting surveillance    78 Introduction    85 The Populist Challenge 2.0. How populism profits from social media    87 Contesting the shrinking media space in Slovakia    97 Fluid media landscapes    101 Networked protest for a populist age    105 Journalism in spite of everything Interview with Esther Alonso, eldiario.es    109 We are the newcomers Interview with Ramy Al-Asheq, Abwab    113 Our digitally mediated society    119 Introduction    131 A rigged economy in a rigged democracy    133 Breaking with the rules that ruin the Union    141 Social networks of influence in Europe - and beyond    147 Learning from Syriza    158 The commons as unifying political vision    167 Instructions for building a pan-European movement    174 Together means Razem    180 The birth of a new civic platform in Romania    185 The Rojava Revolution and the model of democracy without a state    189 Works by Democratic Self-Administration of Rojava and Studio Jonas Staal. New World Summit Rojava (2015-2017)    193 A revolution of life    200 Annex    205

Sommario/riassunto

This book opens the often narrow discourse on the future of Europe and criticises the false dichotomy between nationalism on the one hand and a neoliberal version of Europe on the other. Existing emancipatory projects from across the continent are presented together with reflections on strategies to achieve a democratic Europe beyond the nation state: from the municipal level to the level of transnational media, from technology and counter-surveillance to the systemic change provided by the commons movement and more.The shift towards a new way of thinking and doing politics is possible!With contributions by Etienne Balibar, Ulrike Guérot, Gesine Schwan, Renata Avila, Barbara Spinelli, Andreas Karitzis, Lorenzo Marsili, Jonas Staal, among others, and interviews with city governors from Madrid to Naples.

»This book is essential reading for anyone not just involved with European affairs, but concerned about the state of the EU and looking for the evidence that change is possible for the better.«

»The book proves that a shift towards a new way of thinking and doing politics is not only possible, but actually already happening.«

Besprochen in:Commons Network Newsletter, 7 (2017)https://www.uni-wh.de, 31.05.2017

»In sum, what is particularly convincing about the theme of this publication is that it releases the reader from a dichotomous discursive straightjacket. Instead of reproducing the binary discourse of being for or against, respectively in our out of Europe, it opens up alternative spaces and pathways for more creative political practices.«

Reviewed in:Commons Network Newsletter, 7 (2017)P2 Foundation, 23.06.2017, Stacco Troncosohttp://www.engagee.org