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- Title
Democracy will never be the same again: 21st Century Protest and the Transformation of Politics.
- Authors
TORMEY, SIMON
- Abstract
This paper looks at the current wave of protests and demonstrations and asks whether what we are witnessing is the emergence of a new movement against austerity and in favour of democracy, as many suggest. The wider context is the crisis of representative politics, which is in turn transforming the nature of mobilisation, contestation and politics more generally. In place of traditional organisational structures, we are seeing the emergence of cloud, swarm and connective initiatives with characteristics that challenge and supplant traditional organisational politics. We are seeing the emergence of a politics that is resistant to 'politicians' of whatever ideology, seeking to recuperate power and agency from representatives. This creates an interesting tension at the heart of democracy: whether and to what extent democracy needs to 'reboot' or whether new political parties and movements can ally the connective to representational styles of politics to provide a way in which democracy can evolve.
- Subjects
DEMOCRACY; ACTIVISM; REPRESENTATIVE government
- Publication
Recerca, 2015, Issue 17, p107
- ISSN
1130-6149
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.6035/Recerca.2015.17.6