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- Helander, Sofia
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From Antagonism to Alienation : Redirecting Radical Democracy
- 2021
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- How can democratic theory address contemporary problems of alienation? Today, alienation manifests itself primarily in processes of precarization and deprofessionalization. When the subject’s work security or professional autonomy is undermined, her relations – not only to others, but also to herself – can become inhibited. This dissertation argues that while alienation poses a serious problem in today’s democracies, it is a form of social suffering that is particularly difficult for democratic theory – preoccupied by the political – to address. In this dissertation, I seek to address alienation in a radical and open way by taking agonistic democracy as my starting point. Indeed, I assume that a suitable theory of alienation should satisfy two general criteria. On the one hand, it should be radical, engaging with the suffering that people experience in a way that encourages them to contest it. On the other hand, it should be open, avoiding the pitfalls of determinism, human essentialism and the ideal of harmony, all of which risk breeding authoritarianism. In this respect, agonistic democracy seems like the best theory to address alienation. The theory is characterized by its emphasis on transformative social struggle as well as its concern with avoiding what it sees as the authoritarian pitfalls of traditional socialism. However, while agonistic democracy, preoccupied with the struggle against social marginalization, should be able to address alienation, it cannot. This, I argue, is not merely due to the historical conditions from which it emerges – marked by a turn away from traditional socialist concepts towards a focus on antagonism – but also due to a deeper tension in the theory itself. In its attempts to remain both radical and open, agonistic democracy comes to rely on a subject who is flexible, strong and conflict-seeking. For this reason, it fails to include those who cannot thrive in social disorder, those who are left alienated. I therefore seek to reformulate the subject of agonistic democracy in order to address alienation in an open and radical way.
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- Mantena, Karuna, et al.
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Book Symposium
- 2022
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Ingår i: Democratic Theory. - : Berghahn Books. - 2332-8894 .- 2332-8908. ; 9:2, s. 139-155
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Forskningsöversikt (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Theorizing the Democratic Crowd: From the Who to the How of Popular AssemblyFrom the Boundaries of the People to their Enactment: A New Terrain for Democratic TheoryPopular Sovereignty, Aesthetics, and EmancipationBeyond the Age of Democratic Revolution
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- Nordblad, Julia, et al.
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Lyft klimatet - starta ett medborgarråd
- 2022
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Ingår i: Aftonbladet: Debatt. - 1103-9000.
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Tidskriftsartikel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- Debattörerna: Vanliga svenskar måste få bli mer delaktigaDEBATT. Den gångna sommaren har präglats av torka, rekordtemperaturer och översvämningar på många håll i världen.Att bromsa klimatförändringarna blir en alltmer akut politisk uppgift, men de beslut som krävs för att minska utsläppen fattas inte. Förra året ökade till och med de svenska utsläppen av växthusgaser med fyra procent .
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- Näsström, Sofia
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Democratic self-defense : Bringing the social model back in
- 2021
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Ingår i: Distinktion. - : Taylor & Francis Group. - 1600-910X .- 2159-9149. ; 22:3, s. 376-396
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The rise of authoritarian populism has forced many democracies to consider how best to defend democracy against its inner enemies. In the literature on democratic self-defense, one often distinguishes between three models: a legal (militant), political (procedural) and social (integrational). If much scholarly attention is on the merits and limits of the first two models, the social model has fallen behind. This is surprising given its success in the interwar years in many Scandinavian countries, and the empirical correlation between high levels of social equality and high levels of political tolerance. This article examines the merits and limits of the social model. More specifically, it makes two contributions. First, it introduces ‘the social security’ approach proposed by early Swedish social democratic thinkers as an alternative to ‘the social homogeneity’ approach proposed by Hermann Heller. The aim is to show that they provide different solutions to the loser's dilemma: the fact that losers in a democratic election must be ready to support the winners, whose decisions are at odds with their own convictions. Second, the article examines a common objection against the social security approach, namely, that it politicizes democracy, and thereby undermines the distinction between procedure and substance in the defense of democracy
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- Näsström, Sofia
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Demokrati. En liten bok om en stor sak
- 2021
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Bok (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- Demokrati är ett honnörsord i politiken. Men det kan eka skrämmande tomt när kriserna staplas på varandra, och ovissheten om framtiden känns övermäktig. Idag ser vi hur demokratier världen över hotas av populistiska ledare och antidemokratiska eliter, och hur stödet för auktoritära regimer ökar. Pandemier drar fram med vindens hastighet och osäkrar tillvaron för miljontals människor. Gränsöverskridande utmaningar i form av migration och miljöförstöring väntar fortfarande på politiska lösningar. Överallt prövas demokratin. Överallt undrar människor: vad kommer härnäst? I tio korta och fängslande kapitel diskuterar författaren Sofia Näsström olika svar på frågan om vad demokrati är, varför den är bra, vilka folket är, hur folket ska styra, vad de ska styra över, om demokratin behöver en konstitution, om populism är demokratiskt, om demokratin bör idka självförsvar, om demokratin är snabb eller långsam och om den har en framtid.
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- Näsström, Sofia
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Divine Democracy : Three Questions
- 2022
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Ingår i: Political Theology. - : Routledge. - 1462-317X .- 1743-1719. ; 23:3, s. 231-235
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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