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This introductory chapter displays the school of radical democracy. Guided by the political theory of Jacques Rancière, the chapter links democracy’s conflictual nature to its division between governors and governed. From this critical inquiry into the search for radical democracy, the chapter introduces the book’s ethnographic case study—the democratic conflict in Husby—and how such a conflict has been construed within the anarchist tradition.
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Joseph Schumpeter, 2005 [1943], Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy (New York: Routledge), 269–73.
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Boaventura de Sousa Santos and Leonardo Avritzer, 2005, “Introduction: Opening up the Canon of Democracy,” in Democratizing Democracy: Beyond the Liberal Democratic Canon, ed. Boaventura de Sousa Santos (London: Verso), xxxiv-li; Graham Smith, 2009, Democratic Innovations: Designing Institutions for Citizen Participation (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
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Robert Dahl, 1998, On Democracy (New Haven: Yale university press), 10.
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See Robert Putnam, Robert Leonardi, and Raffaella Nanetti, 1993, Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy (Princeton: Princeton University Press), 182.
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David Trend, 1995, “Democracy’s Crisis of Meaning,” in Radical Democracy: Identity, Citizenship and the State, ed. David Trend (London: Routledge).
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Lars Tønder and Lasse Thomassen, 2005, “Introduction: Rethinking Radical Democracy between Abundance and Lack,” in Radical Democracy: Politics between Abundance and Lack, ed. Lars Tønder and Lasse Thomassen (Manchester: Manchester University Press), 3–5; See also Trend, 1995, “Introduction,” 2–3.
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Chantal Mouffe, 1992, “Preface: Democratic Politics Today,” in Dimensions of Radical Democracy: Pluralism, Citizenship, Community, ed. Chantal Mouffe (London: Verso), 1.
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See for instance Ank Michels, “Citizen Participation in Local Policy Making: Design and Democracy,” International Journal of Public Administration 35, no. 4 (2012); Georgina Blakeley, “Governing Ourselves: Citizen Participation and Governance in Barcelona and Manchester,” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 34, no. 1 (2010); Smith, 2009; Sousa Santos and Avritzer, 2005, lv–lxix.
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See Seyla Benhabib, 1996, “Introduction: The Democratic Moment and the Problem of Difference,” in Democracy and Difference: Contesting the Boundaries of the Political, ed. Seyla Benhabib (Princeton: Princeton University Press), 6–8; Aletta Norval, 2001, “Radical Democracy,” in Encyclopedia of Democratic Thought, ed. Paul Barry Clarke and Joe Foweraker (New York: Routledge), 587–90.
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Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, 2001 [1985], Hegemony and Socialist Strategy: Towards a Radical Democratic Politics (London: Verso), xvii–xviii, 159–71.
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Adrian Little and Moya Lloyd, 2009, “Introduction,” in The Politics of Radical Democracy, ed. Adrian Little and Moya Lloyd (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press), 1–7.
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See for instance Tønder and Thomassen, 2005, 3–5.
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Douglas Lummis, 1996, Radical Democracy (Ithaca: Cornell University Press), 27.
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Ernesto Laclau, 2005, On Populist Reason (London: Verso), 249.
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Mouffe, 1992, 11.
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See discussion in Anna Marie Smith, 1998, Laclau and Mouffe: The Radical Democratic Imaginary (London: Routledge), 30–35.
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Chantal Mouffe, 2013, Agonistics: Thinking of the World Politically (London: Verso), 66–71.
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Ibid., 76–77.
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Ibid., 126.
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Marianne Maeckelbergh, 2009, The Will of the Many: How the Alterglobalisation Movement Is Changing the Face of Democracy (London: Pluto Press), 140, 29–40.
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David Graeber, “The New Anarchists,” New left review 13 (2002): 70.
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Barbara Epstein, 1995, “Radical Democracy and Cultural Politics: What About Class? What About Political Power?,” in Radical Democracy: Identity, Citizenship and the State, ed. David Trend (London: Routledge), 136.
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See for instance Moya Lloyd, 2009, “Performing Radical Democracy,” in The Politics of Radical Democracy, ed. Adrian Little and Moya Lloyd (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press), 48–50; Birgit Schippers, ibid., “Judith Butler, Radical Democracy and Micro-Politics,” 75–77.
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Mouffe, 2013, 91–94, 119–23.
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Ernesto Laclau, 2005, “The Future of Radical Democracy,” in Radical Democracy: Politics between Abundance and Lack, ed. Lars Tønder and Lasse Thomassen (Manchester: Manchester University Press), 261.
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Simon Critchley, ibid., “True Democracy: Marx, Political Subjectivity and Anarchic Meta-Politics,” 229.
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Ibid., 232.
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Miguel Abensour, 2011 [1997], Democracy against the State: Marx and the Machiavellian Moment, trans. Max Blechman (Cambridge: Polity), xxiii, 97.
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Jacques Rancière, 2006, Hatred of Democracy, trans. Steve Corcoran (London: Verso), 49.
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Ibid., 29.
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Ibid., 94.
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Abensour, 2011 [1997], xl, 100.
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Lundström, M. (2018). The Search for Radical Democracy. In: Anarchist Critique of Radical Democracy. The Theories, Concepts and Practices of Democracy. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76977-6_1
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