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Protests and new mobilisations : the emergence of post-communist contestatory citizenship
Anna Krasteva, New Bulgarian University, Dept of Political Sciences
The State is Us Munich, 4-5 November 2015
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To plant a green tree in a chaos
• Radichkov in “Turmoil Here it comes, a swarm of people and we can’t see its end. As if you would plant a green tree in this chaos and expect it to sprout! You just don’t enter a swarm of people with a green tree!” – to that you say: “and why not? I will enter and I will plant it and as it becomes a big tree, everyone will then say: this tree was planted when there was the chaos, no one believed it will sprout, but it sprouted and look how big it became!
Make cosmos out of chaos
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Manifestations: - “spontaneous”
- “joyful”
At what age starts the political socialization?
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Obligation to participate
Freedom to (not) participate
Citizenship
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Re-inventing citizenship
Communism vs postcommunism
Contestatory citizenship
Belonging Participation
How • types • paradoxes • characteristics
Who • agency
Why
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LA TRANSITION DEMOCRATIQUE
The people as source and mesure pf power
(P. Magnette)
Post-communiste agora– Rome and Athens at the same time
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From the ascendant public citizenship
To the descendant private citizenship
Apathy/Disengagement/Abstention
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Difficult discovery
of the ‘genre’ of protests
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2 strategies for the construction of citizens
Political engineering • Think thanks • NGOs
Acts of citizenship • “To understand how subjects become citizens
as claimants of justice, rights and responsibilities” (Isin and Nielsen, p. 18)
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Types of citizenship
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1. Green citizenship
Greening of the Self • Post-materialist post-
communist values
Greening of Internet
Symbolic remapping of the city
Spaces of discontent
Greening of demands
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2. Creative citizenship
Transformers
Urban space - State’s ownesership
Citizens ‘ appropriation
New actors vs new public space
Politics and poetics
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3. E-citizenship
From click democracy to street democracy
Generation Y –
from hacker’s manifestos to mobiizations
on and offline
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4. Contestatory citizenship
Maturity of contestation
Internet in the street ”Who is the Net, is red”
2013 – a whole year of street protests
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Characteristics
Temporality Aesthetization Self-reflexivity
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Temporality vs protest’s efficiency
Long and inefficient
Brief and efficient
Civic temporality
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Civic appropriation of political time
Occupy
Square
Timeless time
Now and future Present and horizon
Place and project
(Eco-) Protest
Street
Accelerated
2 types of pol temporality Michel Castells
„I want my future today – here and now“
Bg protestor
Pol temporality – Not determined
by Power or Markets, but by Contestation and
Protests
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Aesthetization of protests – theatralisation or new agency
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Self-reflexivity
The Self as Protester
•“I’m a protester”
Lists/ Open letters
We and the Others Protestor’s Identity
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Paradoxes
Asymmetry ‘Exit’ vs ‘Voice’
The revolutionary myth of youth (In)Authenticity Local vs Global
Left-wing vs right-wing
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Asymmetric cartography
of mobilisations
Eco
Anti-oligarchy
Anti-discrimination Pro-minorities
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From “Exit” to “Voice” Albert Hirschman
Post-communist transition - 3 responses - ‘Exit’
Contestatory democracy Digital diaspora – voice in exit ‘Voice’ instead of ‘exit’’
“If you do not like it here, leave”
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Revolutionary myth vs positive bias
Revolutionary myth of youth
Essentializing youth
Positive bias
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(In)Authenticity of protests?
What at the protest square? Sofia
Kiev
Concert of Davide Martello in
Istanbul
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Global or National
End 1990s Global Justice Movement Global
Counter summits, World social forum Anticipated the crisis Against corporate globalisation
2010s Real Democracy Movement National Urban space - streets, squares Camps, Occupy Experience of the crisis Against austerity
Two opposite trends 1. From global to national logic 1. National protests vs rapid spreading of the same innovative model across borders
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Left-wing or right-wing
Occupy Anti-capitalist Anti-austerity
Left-wing
Bulgarian protests Anti-oligarchy
Right-wing
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The three”I”
or the formula of the contestatory citizenship – on and offline
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Indignation/Rage
Occupy
Indignados
Springs
Nitesche
Camus Cogito of I
I’m enraged, ergo I’m
Stephane Hessel “Indignez-vous”
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Internet
Pyramides networks
Copy/paste Experimentation/ creativity
Hacker manifest
Crowdsorcing democracy
D. Wolton The political project of the digital revolution? Printing - Reformation Radio/TV – Mass Democracy
Digital contestatory citisenship
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Imagination
Beginning of post-communist democracy =
End of history
Mimetism
Lack of historic imagination
“Occupyers = dreamers“
The best way to foresee the future is to create it.
Slogan of students Occupy in Sofia, 2013
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‘Occupy’
Colin Hay „Why we hate politics?“
Form the politics
we deserve
To the levels of political participation
they deserve
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The three “I” for three causes
Indignation Internet Imagination
• Dream • Change • Augment
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Who
Agency
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Networked individual vs Real democracy movement
Not arborescent Rhizomatic
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Dreamers
Utopian project
• The hackers manifests • “Who wants to dream?”
Creativity
Experimentation
Innovative subjectivity
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Why?
Or concluding remarks
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New generation of cleavages
Socio-cultural
cleavages
WE Socio-ec
cleavages Post- SWW
EE Socio-pol cleavages
Post-communism
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Attractiveness of symbolic politics
From party politics
To symbolic politics
From interests
To passion
From structures
To mobilizations
From party politics to
street politics
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I democratic revolution
Elites
Representative democracy
II democratic revolution
Citizens
Contestatory democracy and
acts of citizenship
Post-communist revolutions
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New revolution or new citizen?
Contestatory citizen as Augmented citizen
This tree was planted when there was the chaos, no one believed it will sprout, but it sprouted and look how big it became!
Radichkov