ABSTRACT
This volume strengthens the dialogue between conceptual perspectives, approaches and fields on deliberative and participatory forms of democratic innovation and offers novel insights, focusing on the Southeast European space. Traditional forms of participation seem insufficient in satisfying the growing complexity of the democratic processes, especially in the context of autocratizing societies. It is crucial to examine the possibilities of democratic innovation in political research and practice, trying to establish a connection between the possibilities and limits of representative democracy and social movements as possible carriers of the process of democratic innovation. This book offers novel insights into practices of civil society and social movements and their pathways carved to initiate a deep change in political thinking and practice and compelling insights for scholars and students of Southeast Europe, social movements and democracy.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|80 pages
Context of the Participatory Democratic Innovations in Southeast Europe
chapter 3|21 pages
Participation, Responsiveness, Interaction
part II|82 pages
Social Movements and Civil Society Experimentation
chapter 5|24 pages
Toward the Democratization of Urban Planning
chapter 6|17 pages
Heterotopia, Social Movements and Democratic Innovation
chapter 7|20 pages
Enacting Resistance, Performing Citizenship
chapter 8|19 pages
Agonist Reading of Social Movements in Illiberal Democracies
part III|61 pages
Toward Institutional Politics