The Democratic Turn of the Century: Learning from the U.S. Democracy Movement

Manski, Ben

doi:10.1080/08854300.2015.1006392

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“…By the end of the 1990s, the corporation had been made a focus of contestation, the terrain of the corporation opened up, and a series of mobilizations and organizations began to move across the surface. These included everything from the anti-corporate dimensions of the mass protests against the World Trade Organization in Seattle in 1999 to media projects like AdBusters, Multinational Monitor, and Boycott Quarterly, to the nearly one thousand college teach-ins on corporate power coordinated by the Democracy Teach-In Clearinghouse, to (more recently) the We the People Amendment and related constitutional amendments sponsored by leading members of the U.S. Congress that would end (or at least limit) the ability of corporations to wield the U.S. Constitution against public regulation (Manski 2015). Notably, community-level organizing through local governments has remained a central practice of movements that have made the corporation an issue.…”

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Introduction: The Dynamics and Terrains of Local Democracy and Corporate Power in the 21st Century

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2019

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Particular to the struggles of today is a renewed and increasingly networked politics of local democracy in opposition to global corporate power. With the five urgent essays in this symposium we bring these politics into a world-systems space, considering specific community conflicts with corporations over water and petro-carbon as part of larger translocal struggles, and taking up broader strategies for asserting democratic control over economic life. The included essays feature two of four terrains of struggle —the translocalization of local resistance and contests over sovereignty – that we see as significant in the contemporary dynamics of local democracy and corporate power. We identify additional examples of contests on each these terrains of struggle, as well as those terrains involving contestation of the corporation itself and of alternative global constitutionalisms, in mapping the dimensions of the developing period of community-corporate struggle. Our purpose is to set in motion further collaborations between academic and community-based scholars, with the goal of equipping communities with knowledge useful in expanding and deepening democracy.

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confidence: 99%