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Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 Passive Revolutions and the Future of the EU: Democratic Theorising and the 'Decolonial Multitude' -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Gramsci's Passive Revolution: From the Italian Risorgimento to Sortition-Based 'Descriptive Representation' in the EU -- 3 A Politically Engaged Conceptual, Normative and Empirical Perspective: Democratic Theorising and the 'Decolonial Multitude' -- 4 Challenging the "coloniality of power" in mainstream conceptions of 'citizen participation': decolonising the 'we' in democracy -- 5 Summary of the Book Through the Articulation of the Different Chapters -- Bibliography -- 2 From European Demoi to the Decolonial Multitude: Democratising the EU's Political Imaginary -- 1 EU Democracy, Decolonisation and the Agonistic Public Sphere -- 1.1 Democratic Legitimacy in the EU: The Opportunity of Politicisation to Bring Agonism -- 2 Multitude Over Peoplehood: The Tension Between Sovereignty and Democracy -- 2.1 The 'Decolonial Multitude' as the 'We' of Democracy -- 2.2 Decolonial Multitude vs Sovereignty: A Non-Contractualist Conception of EU Democracy -- 2.3 The 'Decolonial Multitude' in the EU: Democratising Traditional Notions of 'Representation' Through Mediation -- 2.4 Articulating the Decolonial Multitude in Opposition to Existing Material Structures and Coloniality -- 3 Why the Decolonial Multitude Now? New Intergovernmentalism and Populism in the EU -- 3.1 Democracy, Sovereignty and 'the People' in the EU: The Revolution from Above of New Intergovernmentalism -- 3.2 The Decolonial Multitude as a Transnational and Pluralist Alternative to Populism -- 4 Conclusion: Stimulating Agonistic EU Politicisation Through a Decolonial Multitude Perspective -- Bibliography.
3 The Genealogy of the 'Citizen Turn' in the EU: The European Citizen Consultations, the Citizen Dialogues and the Antipolitical Imaginary -- 1 From the 'Participatory' to the 'Citizen Turn' in the European Union -- 2 The Relationship Between Deliberative and Agonistic Democracy: The Antipolitical Imaginary vs Mediation -- 3 From the EP agoras, Citizen Dialogues and the European Citizen Consultations (2008-2018) to the Conference on the Future of Europe (2019-2022) -- 4 'Citizenism' as an Alternative to an Agonistic European Public Sphere in the EU's 'Citizen Turn' -- 4.1 The Missing Micro-macro Link: EU 'Citizen Participation' as 'Democracy Without Politics' -- 4.2 Disintermediation as Another Form of (Private) Mediation: The Social Construction of 'Everyday People' and the Commodification of Democracy -- 5 Conclusion: The 'Citizen Turn' Reinforces the Preexistent Depoliticised EU Political Dynamics -- Bibliography -- 4 Democracy Without Politics in the Conference on the Future of Europe: The Political Architecture, Process and Recommendations -- 1 Introduction: An Interpretivist Approach to the CoFoE -- 2 The Conference on the Future of Europe: A Response to a Legitimacy Gap -- 3 The Political Architecture of the Conference -- 3.1 The Multilingual Digital Platform -- 3.2 Decentralised Events and the European and National Citizens' Panels -- 3.3 The CoFoE Plenary and the Working Groups -- 4 Democracy Without Politics in the CoFoE: The Missing Connection with Mediators and the Public Sphere -- 4.1 Civil Society and Trade Unions -- 4.2 National Parliaments and the Media -- 5 The CoFoE Proposals: A Consensual and Catch-All Wish List -- 6 Conclusion: The Reproduction of Democracy Without Politics in the CoFoE -- Bibliography -- 5 Individualised Technodeliberation in the CoFoE European Citizens' Panels: The Presence of the Absence of the European Demoi.
1 Introduction: The European Citizens' Panels in the CoFoE -- 2 Organisation of the European Citizens' Panels -- 2.1 The Mediators of Disintermediation and Its Relation to the CoFoE Secretariat -- 2.2 Who is Taking Part in the European Citizens' Panels? The Individualistic and Antipolitical Imaginary of 'Everyday Citizens' -- 3 The Functioning of the European Citizens' Panels -- 3.1 Agenda, Framing of the Panels and Information Background -- 3.2 Mechanics of the Panels -- 3.3 The Role of Facilitators (and Note-Takers): Technical and Political Challenges -- 3.4 The 'Neutral' Role of (Academic) Experts and Fact-Checkers -- 3.4.1 The (Improvised) Introduction of Fact-Checking -- 3.5 'Polluting' the Citizen Deliberations? The CoFoE Secretariat's Forceful Control Over 'Undue Influence' -- 3.6 Recommendations and (Non)deliberative Voting: A Wish List Exercise -- 4 'Citizen Ambassadors' in the Plenary -- 5 A Normative Critique of the European Citizen Panels: Isolated and Atomised Aggregation and an Individualised European Demoi -- 6 The Antipolitical Construction of the European Demoi in the European Citizens' Panels -- Bibliography -- 6 The Institutional 'Success' of the CoFoE via the 'New Generation' Citizen Panels: The European Commission Leads the Public-Private 'Citizen Turn' -- 1 'Citizen Participation' after the CoFoE -- 2 'Lessons Learnt' and Follow-Up of EU Institutions to the CoFoE -- 3 The Public-Private Institutionalisation of 'Citizen Participation': Internal Advocacy to Embed Processes across the European Commission -- 4 Inter-institutional Competition to 'Own' Citizen Participation at the EU Level -- 4.1 The Clash Between Parliament and Commission to Lead EU 'Citizen Participation' -- 4.2 The CoFoE Feedback Event and the Commission's 'Global Leadership': Public Relations over Contestation in the Public Sphere.
5 The 'New Generation' of European Citizens' Panels Organised by the European Commission -- 5.1 The Corporate Framing of 'Food Waste' and 'Virtual Worlds' -- 5.2 The Lack of a Public Sphere Perspective and the (Neo)liberal Ideology Embedded in European Citizens' Panels -- 6 The Post-CoFoE Logic of 'Citizen Participation': Turning 'Everyday Citizens' into EU 'Technocrats' Within the Process, and 'Ambassadors' Outside of It -- 7 Conclusion: The Depoliticised 'Citizen Participation' Led by the European Commission and Its Underlying Ideology -- Bibliography -- 7 "The Lost Art of Organising Solidarity": Articulating the Decolonial Multitude in the EU (and Beyond) -- 1 A Politically Engaged Perspective: Theorising with and as Activists -- 2 The Decolonial Multitude Imaginary in Ongoing Transnational Struggles: Infrastructures of Dissent to Build a 'Movement of Movements' -- 2.1 The Construction of Transnational Political Action by European Alternatives -- 3 "The Lost Art of Organising Solidarity": Embracing the Differences but Also the Shared Purposes -- 3.1 The 2022 TransEuropa Festival: Decolonize! Decarbonize! Democratize! -- 3.2 The Transnational Workers' Organizing Summit in Bremen -- 3.3 The Decolonial Multitude and the Case Against Class Reductionism: The Long Road to Decolonisation Within Social Movements -- 4 The Challenges to Articulate the Decolonial Multitude in the EU -- 4.1 Beyond the Social Forum and Project-based Cooperation: Building Transnational, Decolonial, Feminist and Democratic Movement Structures -- 5 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 8 The Contrast Between the EU's Technocratic Conception of 'Citizen Participation' and the Democratic Pluralism of the Decolonial Multitude -- 1 The European Citizens' Panels and the 'Passive Revolution': The EU's Technocratic 'Citizen Turn'.
2 Fostering the Intersectional Power of the Multitude: Reframing the Democracy Debate from a Decolonial Perspective -- 3 The Political Implications of the Decolonial Multitude: The EU as a Political Playing Field -- 3.1 Changing the Organisational Rules of the Game in the EU: Filling the Void with (Transnational) Mass Organisations -- 3.2 Embedding Democratic and Deliberative Innovations to Foster Mass Politics and a Transnational Agonistic Public Sphere -- 4 Contribution to the Literature, Shortcomings of the Book and Avenues for Future Political Action and Research -- 5 The Democratisation and Decolonisation of Academia: Shifting the Ideological Borders of European Studies -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Democracy Without Politics in EU Citizen Participation : From European Demoi to Decolonial Multitude
