Common Hegemony, Populism, and the New Municipalism

Cover
Half Title
Series Information
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
	References
1 Mapping Democratic Alter-Politics
	Outlining the Concept
	An Alter-Political Zeitgeist, From the Zapatistas’ Otra Política to the Middle East
	Alter-political Vision, Logics and Ethics
	Let’s Have Fun! Joyful Activism and Alter-Political Affect
	Alter-politics and the Strategic Challenges Ahead
	References
2 Democratic Alter-Politics: Context and Strategic Predicaments
	The Historical Situation: Post-Democracy and Neoliberal Hegemony
	Political Strategies for Expansive Alter-Politics (I): the Three-Faced Dionysus
	Political Strategies for Expansive Alter-Politics (II): Eroding the Hegemonic System
	Strategic Convergences and Quandaries
	References
3 Counter-Hegemonic Strategy for Building Collective Agency: Revisiting Gramsci and Laclau & Mouffe
	Gramsci On Hegemony and Counter-Hegemony
	Revisiting Post-Marxist Hegemony for Democratic Alter-Politics
	Hegemony at the Turn of the 21st Century
	Agonistic Hegemony
	Clearing the Way for an Alter-Political Hegemony
	References
4 Another Leadership for Common Hegemony
	Another Leadership
	Another Leadership Through the Assembly Form
	Another Leadership Through Technopolitics
	Another Leadership Through Institutional Rules, Reflexivity and Another Ethos
	Another Leadership Through Feminization
	Leading in Common
	References
5 Common Hegemony and Populism 2.0
	Why Populism?
	New Movements Towards Populism 2.0
	The Political Logic of Populism
	People 2.0
	The Populist Soul of 15M
	Populism 2.0 and the Queer Common: the Paradigmatic Case of 15M
	Populism 2.0: What Difference Does It Make?
	Note
	References
6 New Municipalism as Alter-Political Strategy of Organization and Institutional Engagement: The Case of Spain
	The Alternative Tradition of Council Democracy and Municipalism
	The Alter-Political Municipalist Movement in Action
	.unicipal Confluences in Spain, 2015–2019
	The Example of Barcelona En Comú
	Drawing a First Balance
	Spanish New Municipalism and Common Hegemony
	Note
	References
7 Italian Paths to Urban Commoning: Other Strategies of Common Hegemony
	.ntroducing Commons in Italian Cities: Institutions, Law and Movements
	Commoning in Italian Cities: the Constituent Power of Social Movements and the Ecology of Law
	Commoning in Italian Cities: Municipal Regulations, Facilitating Institutions and Active Citizenship
	Commoning in Italian Cities: the Bologna Process From the Angle of Grassroots Counter-Hegemony
	Commoning in Italian Cities: the ‘Neapolitan Way’ of Civic Use
	Reflecting On Common Hegemony in the Italian Style
	Note
	References
Epilogue: Political Organization for an Alter-Political Hegemony
	References
Index