The Common and Counter-Hegemonic Politics : : Re-Thinking Social Change / / Alexandros Kioupkiolis.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Kioupkiolis, Alexandros,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.)

Introduces agonistic theory and hegemony into contemporary debates on the commonAlexandros 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 FeaturesDraws on the work of Jean-Luc Nancy, Chantal Mouffe, Elinor Ostrom, Hardt and Negri, and Ernesto LaclauBreaks new ground by introducing agonistic theory and hegemony in the contemporary debate on the commons and communityClarifies 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

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction, or The Long Run -- Chapter One. Commoning the political, politicising the common: Community and the political in Nancy, Esposito, Agamben, Laclau and Mouffe -- Chapter Two. From the commons to another politics of egalitarian autonomy. Common-pool resources, digital and anti-capitalist commons, from Ostrom to Marxist autonomism -- Chapter Three. Common and communism: political theories for radical change. From Hardt and Negri, and Dardot and Laval to Badiou and Žižek -- Chapter Four. Taking on hegemony and the political -- Chapter Five. Reclaiming post-Marxist hegemony for the commons -- Chapter Six. Movements post-hegemony -- Chapter Seven. Common democracy. Political representation and government as commons -- Notes -- References -- Index