The nonhuman condition: Radical democracy through new materialist lenses

Asenbaum, Hans; Machin, Amanda; Gagnon, Jean–Paul; Leong, Diana; Orlie, Melissa A.; Smith, James L.

doi:10.1057/s41296-023-00635-3

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“…Both in terms of climate policy goals and in its methods, innovative approaches are evident that have an impact on democracy. The goal of leaving a viable planet for future generations raises an extremely exciting question for democracy: To what extent do future generations, who are either not yet born or do not yet have the right to vote, have inalienable rights and to what extent must these be protected by current policies (Asenbaum et al, 2023;Maeda, 2021)? What is emancipatory about the demands of the climate movement is the idea of freeing future living people and other living beings from their dependence on current politics.…”

Section: Discussion and Conclusion: Democracy-promoting Innovation Fo...mentioning

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Four types of Social Innovation and their impact on democracy in the 21st century

Pausch

2023

EPSIR

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In modern history, there are various types of social innovation that have changed the world in different ways. In part, they go hand in hand with democratisation processes, but especially in the 21st century they harbour potential that threatens democracy. In this article, four types of social innovation are derived from the history of discourse and analysed in terms of their connection with democracy. The article argues that, especially in complex times, the acceptance of the new depends on how democratically it comes about and that, while strengthening democratic innovations is central to Europe's future, they are challenged by authoritarian notions of innovation. As a decisive parameter for a successful improvement or preservation of democratic systems, the article highlights the importance of the broadest possible inclusion, representation and participation in all four types.

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Section: Discussion and Conclusion: Democracy-promoting Innovation Fo...mentioning

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Four types of Social Innovation and their impact on democracy in the 21st century

Pausch

2023

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“…One day, we may even imagine direct ‘negotiations’ with various other species – octopus, mice and rhinos – without mediation through a human ‘representation’ in court. At stake here is the displacement of narrow anthropocentrism that currently guides democratic theory and practice and its repositioning into ‘the nonhuman condition’ (Asenbaum et al, 2023). In doing so, Europeans and northern capitalist states will realise that the ontological underpinnings of the third democratic transformation, or what Connolly calls ‘entangled humanism’, have been present for centuries in non‐Western traditions of ecological thought in India, Indonesia, the Amazon or West Africa that reject a world divided into human subjects and non‐human objects (Connolly, 2017).…”

Section: The Third Democratic Transformation In a Planetary Keymentioning

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The Third Democratic Transformation: From European to Planetary Politics

Nicolaidis

2024

J of Common Market Studies

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This contribution to the symposium explores one aspect of the arrival of planetary politics under the broad label of the third democratic transformation, a transformation unfolding now at all levels of governance, from the local to the global through the regional, in spite of the anti‐democratic forces at play around the world. This article starts by exploring the new frontier of normative power Europe in a post‐colonial key, arguing that the European Union can serve as a laboratory for such a democratic transformation, around four interrogations related to claims of decentring, doubting, experimenting and decolonising. It then offers a descriptive‐normative typology of the core attributes of the third democratic transformation observable in numerous signs and practices both in Europe and around the world through a sixfold evolution, namely, trans‐temporal, transnational, trans‐modal, trans‐local, trans‐scalar and, across all these, translational. It concludes on the conditions of possibility for this transformation.

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“…And both the climate emergency and the pandemic disproportionally affect racially marginalised groups. A politics of care, then, needs to extend radical mothering to the planet and include nonhumans into a living democracy (Asenbaum et al 2023).…”

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A Democratic Theory of Life

Asenbaum,

Chenault,

Harris

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Theoria

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In response to its current crisis, scholars call for the revitalisation of democracy through democratic innovations. While they make ample use of life metaphors describing democracy as a living organism, no comprehensive understanding of ‘life’ has been established within democratic theory. The Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement articulates the urgency of refocusing on life and its meaning through radical democratic practice. This article employs a grounded theory approach, enriched with participatory methods, to develop a radical democratic concept of life in conversation with BLM. It conceptualises life as the existence of a perspective that constantly transforms through its fundamental interconnectedness. Building on this concept, the article outlines four principles of a living democracy that go beyond the revitalisation discourse. A living democracy (1) safeguards the existence of all humans and nonhumans, (2) nurtures a diversity of perspectives, (3) fosters social and planetary connectivity, and (4) enables self- and collective transformation.

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The nonhuman condition: Radical democracy through new materialist lenses

Cited by 4 publications

References 80 publications

Four types of Social Innovation and their impact on democracy in the 21st century

Four types of Social Innovation and their impact on democracy in the 21st century

The Third Democratic Transformation: From European to Planetary Politics

A Democratic Theory of Life

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