Democratic coordination and eco-social crises

Bibliographic Data

ID4525328
AuthorsFonna Forman (0000-0001-8251-6083, Department of Political Science, Centre of Global Justice, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA, corresponding author), D Owens (0000-0002-8865-6332, University of Southampton), James Tully (University of Victoria)
Year2022
Volume26
Issue4-5
Pages436-446
Publication date2022-07-04
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCitizenship Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1362-1025 • E-ISSN: 1469-3593
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13621025.2022.2091225
OpenAlexW4285093492
LanguageEN
References cited23

Today we confront planetary crises at a time when our structures of governance are characterised by ‘dysfunctionality’, ‘hollowing out’, ‘gridlock’ and democratic governance faces ‘antagonistic self-destruction’, ‘authoritarian supersession’, or ‘death of democracy’. How should we address this predicament? This paper proposes an approach grounded in acknowledging different modes of democratic citizenship and in recognizing that addressing eco-social crises requires coordination among them. We distinguish five modes of democratic practice against the backdrop of a distinction between two general pictures of citizenship and illustrate how different modes of democratic citizenship (e.g. participatory citizens and Gaia citizens) may ‘join hands’ to address shared challenges. This approach, we propose, brings to light a slow but sure means of democratic change and transformation

Authoritarianism · Citizen journalism · Citizenship · Corporate governance · Democracy · Economic system · Economics · Gridlock · Law and economics · Management · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Environmental Philosophy and Ethics · Indian History and Philosophy · Law · Public Administration · Religion, Ecology, and Ethics

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