Cosmopolitanism and the Legacies of Dissent

Cărăuş, Tamara; Pârvu, Camil-Alexandru

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“…32 The plurality of disobedience Disobedience in response to the abovementioned deficits may be enacted in several categories of protest. 33 Just as violent disruptive practices leading to revolutions constitute disobedience in this context, so does silence and non-action, or indeed the act of breaking the silence. 34 Different theoretical perspectives identify different spectra of disobedience: 35 from collective to individual; from violent to passive; and from organized to spontaneous.…”

Section: Causesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Environmental disobedience and the dialogic dimensions of dissent

Essen

2016

Democratization

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Section: Causesmentioning

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Environmental disobedience and the dialogic dimensions of dissent

Essen

2016

Democratization

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“…On the other hand, it seems that one could argue that almost everything or anything can be political in so far as it deconstructs existing foundations, and then all such acts are potentially normative, in that they may rupture an unjust order. This second pathway is apparent in the works of scholars, like Caraus (2015Caraus ( , 2016aCaraus ( , 2016b, who equate the political with any normative vision that deviates from the existing order. For example, Kalonaityte (2018: 523) uses Rancière's framework to valorize a variety of acts because they may result in political moments, in so far as they challenge and "transcend the taken-for-granted divisions and categories of the order of the police"; such acts include insurrectionist movements, alliances, protests, art, scholarly, literary, and artistic work, and processes of litigation.…”

Section: Rancière's Police and Politicsmentioning

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Rethinking the political in the pluriverse: The ethico-political significance of care

FitzGerald

2023

Journal of International Political Theory

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Postfoundational political thought is characterized by a distinction between “politics” (a socio-symbolic order that delineates what is knowable and thinkable) and “the political” (the instantiation of a socio-symbolic order). This article critically engages with the postfoundational thought of Jacques Rancière to rethink “the political” in the context of the pluriverse, a matrix of multiple distinct yet interconnected worlds. In so doing, this article challenges the idea that “care” is not properly political. Specifically, I argue that in the context of the pluriverse, socio-symbolic orders, or worlds, are not instantiated as such; rather, they must be established and, importantly, reestablished in the face of one another. From this vantage point, caring for and maintaining worlds—especially worlds marginalized by relations of power in the global political economy—is of political and ethical significance. This article thus offers a decolonial and feminist approach to thinking about the political as it (a) destabilizes the Westerncentric assumption that there is one-world, and takes different worlds as worlds seriously; and (b) centers issues of care and reproduction, demonstrates how they are politically and ethically salient, and thereby contributes to the project of foregrounding the political import of care.

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“…It would be important here to explain our understanding of cosmopolitanism and solidarity. By referring to cosmopolitanism from below, we highlight the opposition to cosmopolitanism from above and place our approach within that of critical and conflictual cosmopolitanism (Agustín, 2017;Caraus, 2015). As pointed out by David Harvey (2009), critical cosmopolitanism must avoid false dichotomies between universal and rooted cosmopolitanism which ignore the dialectical relation between the universal and the particular and must aim to explain "moment of openness", which develops new relations between the self, the other, and the world (Delanty, 2006).…”

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“…Thus, cosmopolitanism does not imply an uncritical assumption of universalism or the rejection of the conflictual dimension. Universalism can indeed entail a dialectical function to contest existing imaginaries and open up the possibilities of thinking of alternative political orders or a more just world (Caraus, 2015). Cosmopolitanism from below combines rooted practices and solidarity relations without renouncing to a common ground shared by different solidarity movements.…”

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Solidarity Cities and Cosmopolitanism from Below: Barcelona as a Refugee City

Agustín

Jørgensen

2019

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The so-called ‘refugee crisis’ provoked a wave of solidarity movements across Europe. These movements contrasted with attitudes of rejection against refugees from almost all EU member states and a lack of coordinated and satisfactory response from the EU as an institution. The growth of the solidarity movement entails backlash of nationalized identities, while the resistance of the member states to accept refugees represents the failure of the cosmopolitan view attached to the EU. In the article, we argue that the European solidarity movement shapes a new kind of cosmopolitanism: cosmopolitanism from below, which fosters an inclusionary universalism, which is both critical and conflictual. The urban scale thus becomes the place to locally articulate inclusive communities where solidarity bonds and coexistence prevail before national borders and cosmopolitan imaginaries about welcoming, human rights, and the universal political community are enhanced. We use the case of Barcelona to provide a concrete example of intersections between civil society and a municipal government. We relate this discussion to ongoing debates about ‘sanctuary cities’ and solidarity cities and discuss how urban solidarities can have a transformative role at the city level. Furthermore, we discuss how practices on the scale of the city are up-scaled and used to forge trans-local solidarities and city networks.

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Cosmopolitanism and the Legacies of Dissent

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Environmental disobedience and the dialogic dimensions of dissent

Environmental disobedience and the dialogic dimensions of dissent

Rethinking the political in the pluriverse: The ethico-political significance of care

Solidarity Cities and Cosmopolitanism from Below: Barcelona as a Refugee City

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