Shifting baselines of Europe : : new perspectives beyond neoliberalism and nationalism / / edited by Daphne Büllesbach [and three others].

• HerausgeberIn: European Alternatives
• TeilnehmendeR: Büllesbach, Daphne,
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld, Germany : : Transcript Verlag,, [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: X-Texte zu Kultur und Gesellschaft
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (215 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s).

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...

Table of Contents

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