Counter-hegemonic leadership for democratic alter-politics in our times
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6352973 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Αlexandros Kioupkiolis (0000-0002-4016-7126) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 489-504 |
| Publication date | 2023-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0032-3268 • E-ISSN: 1467-9256 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/02633957211063428 |
| OpenAlex | W4200398806 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 21 |
This article sets out to grapple with strategic challenges facing democratic alter-politics in our times, dwelling on the question of leadership to explore ways of overcoming the frailties and risks that beset grassroots collective agency for democratic renewal. Discussion begins thus by fleshing out the notion of contemporary democratic alter-politics which breaks both with top-down statist rule and conventional activism, fostering openness, diversity, assembly-based democracy, attention to process, egalitarianism, prefiguration, work in everyday life along with mass mobilization, and engagement with institutions to effect change. In a second step, the argument brings out the strategic limitations of this alter-politics by engaging with relevant theories and reflections on strategy. The following key part of the article sketches the outlines of a strategy of counter-hegemony that could tackle some of these limitations by reconfiguring democratic leadership. Drawing on recent social movements and organizational studies, critical analysis will seek to indicate how the pursuit of effective leadership can be aligned with the alter-politics of egalitarian collective self-direction to boost and expand it in the political circumstances of the present. The nub of the argument is that ‘another leadership’ that is assembly-based, technopolitical, reflective, distributed, ‘servant’, and feminized can further democratic alter-politics
Agency (philosophy · Argument (complex analysis · Democracy · Grassroots · Hegemony · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Law · Management and Organizational Studies
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Commonwealth
Teacher Leadership as Distributed Leadership
How Organizations Develop Activists
The Common and Counter-Hegemonic Politics
Another Politics
Omnia Sunt Communia
Spatializing Radical Political Imaginaries
The Strange Non-Death of Neoliberalism
From alterglobalization to Occupy Wall Street
The Production of Commons and the “Explosion” of the Middle Class
The Fragility of Things
Undoing the Demos
The 2011 Occupy Movements
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 3 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |