Alexandros Kioupkiolis

Common and Counter-Hegemonic Politics (eBook, ePUB)

Re-Thinking Social Change

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Produktbeschreibung

Introduces agonistic theory and hegemony into contemporary debates on the common

Alexandros Kioupkiolis re-conceptualises the common in tandem with the political. By engaging with key thinkers of community and the commons, he harnesses the political thrust of a radical democratic politics of solidarity, equality and collective self-organisation. He calls into play poststructuralist conceptions of agonism and hegemony to remedy the failure of existing theories of the commons'' to address power relations and division.

Kioupkiolis argues that an effective politics of the common(s) must be combined with the politics of hegemony to advance another social configuration beyond state and capital. In the spirit of contemporary collective action, the strategy of hegemony should be transfigured by striking an imbalance between vertical structures and horizontal autonomy in favour of the common.

Key Features

• Draws on the work of Jean-Luc Nancy, Chantal Mouffe, Elinor Ostrom, Hardt and Negri, and Ernesto Laclau
• Breaks new ground by introducing agonistic theory and hegemony in the contemporary debate on the commons and community
• Clarifies contemporary theory by engaging with present-day examples of the politics of the common(s), including the governance of the digital commons, recent democratic mobilisations such as the Occupy movements and citizens' municipal platforms of self-governance

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474446174
• Artikelnr.: 72419771

Autorenporträt

Alex Kioupkiolis is Assistant Professor of Contemporary Political Theory in the School of Political Sciences at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. His research focuses on contemporary social movements, radical democracy, the commons, and alternative conceptions of politics. He is the author of Freedom After the Critique of Foundations: Marx, Liberalism and Agonistic Autonomy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) and the principal investigator of the 2017-2020 international research project Heteropolitics (ERC COG 2016), which enquires into civic self-organisation, the commons and municipalist processes in the European South.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: The Long Run
Acknowledgements
1. Commoning the Political, Politicising the Common: Community and the Political in J. L. Nancy, R. Esposito, G. Agamben, E. Laclau and C. Mouffe
2. From the Commons to Another Politics of Egalitarian Autonomy: Common Pool Resources, Digital and Anticapitalist Commons, from E. Ostrom to Marxist Autonomism
3. Common and Communism: Political Theories For Radical Change: from Hardt & Negri, Dardot & Laval to Badiou and Zizek
4. Taking on Hegemony and the Political
5. Reclaiming Post-Marxist Hegemony for the Commons
6. Movements Post-Hegemony
7. Common Democracy: Political Representation and Government as Commons
Endnotes
References.