Demodiversity : towards post-abyssal democracies / edited by Boaventura de Sousa Santos and José Manuel Mendes.

Translation of: Demodiversidade : imaginar novas possibilidades democráticas.

Introduction / Boaventura de Sousa Santos and José Manuel Mendes -- A new vision for Europe : learning from the Global South / Boaventura de Sousa Santos -- Should Europe learn from Indian secularism? / Rajeev Bhargava -- Democracy and democratization in Africa : interrogating paradigms and practices / Issa Shivji -- This world cut into two / Richard Pithouse -- For a politics of revolutionary love / Houria Bouteldja -- Andine micropolitics : elementary forms of daily insurgency / Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui -- Politics after the defeat of politics : post-democracy, post-politics and populism / Juan Carlos Monedero -- "Carry their rights, their own way" : Dalit struggle for equality / José Manuel Mendes -- The Passe Livre movement in Brazil and the sociology of possibilities / João Alexandre Peschanski -- Another democracy is possible : learnings and lessons for a radical democracy based, the political experience of Chéran, Mexico / Orlando Aragón Andrade -- Aymara Andine democracy : Taypi and deliberative diversity towards intercultural democracy / Mara Bicas.

We are living in a time when social and political authoritarianism appear to be gaining ground around the world. This book presents the democratic practices, spaces and processes that engage directly with the theoretical assumptions advanced by the epistemologies of the South, summoning other contexts and empirical realities that attest to the possibility of a renewal and deepening of democracy beyond the liberal and representative canon, which is embedded within a world capitalist system. The chapters in this book put forward the ideas of demodiversity, of high-intensity democracy, of the articulation between representative democracy and participatory democracy as well as, in certain contexts, between both these and other forms of democratic deliberation, such as the communitarian democracy of the indigenous and peasant communities of Africa, Latin America and Asia. The challenge undertaken in this book is to demand utopia, imagining a post-abyssal democracy that permits the democratizing, decolonizing, decommodifying and depatriarchalizing of social relations. This post-abyssal democracy obliges us to satisfy the maximum definition of democracy and not the minimum, transforming society into fields of democratization that permeate the structural spaces of contemporary societies.

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