Democracy Otherwise
Learning From the South
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22018109 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tanja Winkler (0000-0002-0274-0497, University of Cape Town, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Publication date | 2025-04-16 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Urban Planning (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2183-7635 • E-ISSN: 2183-7635 |
| Publisher | Cogitatio (PUBLISHER • PT) |
| DOI | 10.17645/up.8909 |
| OpenAlex | W4409486311 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 45 |
More than 40 years of neoliberal globalization have led to a democratic deficit that necessitates urgent redress. Democracy otherwise —which is grounded in decoloniality and its accompanying epistemologies of the South—provides urban and regional planners with an opportunity to learn from the diverse democratic practices emerging in the Global South, practices that are deliberately delinked from the state and capitalism. One such example is found on communal landholdings in South Africa, where residents deploy multiple principles of legitimacy to foster an emplaced democracy. But given the entwined relationship between planning and the state, and the state’s support of market rationalities, decoloniality urges us to question whether alternative democratic practices are possible beyond local settings. Findings presented in this article suggest that place dependency diminishes transferability and scalability. Nevertheless, herein lies the power of an otherwise democracy to counter coloniality, while keeping alive Derrida’s “always to come” narrative, which challenges the liberal tradition of democracy as the only and most profitable outcome. This perspective enables planners to learn from the South—not to replicate its rich diversity, but to appreciate multiple democratic possibilities that acknowledge pluriversality, relationality, popular knowledges, local experiences, and situated worldviews, while nurturing “polities of difference” and “becoming in place,” in tandem with “idioms of autonomy and community.”
Democracy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Law · South African History and Culture · Urban and Rural Development Challenges · Urban Planning and Governance
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An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation
The Theory of Moral Sentiments
Public Philosophy in a New Key
Moral Obligations, Planning, and the Public Interest
Democracy Compromised
What to do with the chiefs? Revisiting the historical shifts and continuities of rural land administration and tenure systems in the former Transkei of the Eastern Cape, South Africa
On the Liberal Moral Project of Planning in South Africa
Building Trust to Reinforce Democracy
Thinking-feeling with the Earth
Latin America at a Crossroads
Neo-liberalism and the End of Liberal Democracy
Coloniality and globalization
What might decoloniality look like in praxis
The urban domination of the planet
Black texts on white paper
Coping with actually existing urbanisms
Between economic efficacy and social justice
Notes on a Southern urban practice
Decolonizing radical democracy
Land Redistribution in South Africa
Habitability and design
Decolonizing Deliberative Democracy
Resisting Neoliberalization
John Stuart Mill on Liberty and Control
Using southern theory
Understanding the Resurgence of Traditional Authorities in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Other Domains of Democratic Theory
The Geopolitics of Knowledge and the Colonial Difference
The Nature of Cities
Who's Afraid of Postcolonial Theory
Postcolonizing Planetary Urbanization
Postdevelopment in Practice
Development, trans/modernities, and the politics of theory
Coloniality and Modernity/Rationality
Worlds and Knowledges Otherwise
The High Court Ruling Against Ingonyama Trust
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