Cosmopolitanism Beyond Mottos: Cosmopolitan Representation in Global Protests

Cărăuş, Tamara

doi:10.1080/14747731.2016.1217617

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“…Cosmopolitanism from below combines rooted practices and solidarity relations without renouncing to a common ground shared by different solidarity movements. Such a common ground would be the basis for a new cosmopolitan 'we' (Agustín & Jørgensen, 2019b;Caraus, 2017) grounded in inclusive universalism and the translation of rooted solidarity struggles. On the other hand, solidarity is a relational practice, and in opposition to reductionisms or strategic emptiness, solidarity is contentious; it emerges strongly in moments or conjunctures, it is generative of political subjectivities and collective identities, it entails alliance-building among diverse actors, it is inventive of new imaginaries, it is situated in space and time and organized in multi-scalar relations, and it is linked in different ways to institutions.…”

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

Agustín

Jørgensen

2019

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“…The problem is that in order to exist as social movements, they must speak as the people and therefore make claims to represent them. The popular upheavals of the 2010s were cases in point: protesters claimed that elected representatives did not represent the people—“¡Que no nos represantan!” shouted the Spanish crowds during the 2011 15M movement—and offered a “counter-representation” (Brito Vieira 2015), such as the famous motto “We are the 99 percent.” Many works have discussed these movements’ combination of a radical critique of (constituted) mandate representation and strong claims to collectively embody the (constituent) people (Brito Vieira 2015; Caraus 2017; de Barros 2020; Gerbaudo 2017; Prentoulis and Thomassen 2013; 2014; Sande 2020; Tormey 2015; Tufekci 2017; Wessel 2013). In these movements, “self-authorized representatives” constitute the people in whose name they speak through representative claims; for example, in the motto “We are the 99 percent,” “We” stands for the “the imagined possibility of a democratic people empowered to name and confront a wrong that Occupy is already enacting” (Brito Vieira 2015, 506).…”

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Unrepresentative Claims: Speaking for Oneself in a Social Movement

Hayat

2021

Am Polit Sci Rev

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Sometimes, people engaged in politics actively refuse to speak for anyone but themselves. These unrepresentative claims multiply in social movements in times of crisis. During the French Yellow Vest movement of 2018–2019, such unrepresentative claims were routinely made by Yellow Vest leaders, to the point of being a condition for having a leadership position in the movement. By making these unrepresentative claims, they declined any representative mandate, asserting their freedom from any instituted influence. However, by claiming to speak only for themselves, they also selected the aspects of their identity they performed. This allowed them to embody the people sharing this identity, recalling the medieval repraesentatio identitatis, but in a way adjusted to today’s greater personalization of politics. Drawing on this movement and on other examples of unrepresentative claims, we can delineate three broad ideal-types of identities that may be put forward by unrepresentative claims: generality, particularity, and individuality.

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“The revolution born out of a swear”: populist humour, carnivalization, and mass protest in Romania

Ungureanu

2024

Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe

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Cosmopolitanism Beyond Mottos: Cosmopolitan Representation in Global Protests

Cited by 4 publications

References 38 publications

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

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

Unrepresentative Claims: Speaking for Oneself in a Social Movement

“The revolution born out of a swear”: populist humour, carnivalization, and mass protest in Romania

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