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Networked Politics: rethinking political organisation in an age of
movements and networks
AA VV
2007
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Networked Politics is the product of a collaborative research process
for rethinking political organisation in an age of movements and
networks. In a world where the traditional institutions of democratic
control have been weakened by an unconstrained global market and
superpower military ambitions, it uncovers diverse forms of resistance
with the potential to create new institutions for social change. The
authors set out the principles upon which such transformations should be
based, and the challenges that stand in the way of their realisation. |
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Networked Politics: rethinking political organisation in an age of
movements and networks
A reader produced by TNI, Transform! Italia, IGOP and Euromovements
January 2007
Hilary Wainwright, Oscar Reyes, Marco Berlinguer, Fiona Dove, Mayo Fuster I Morrell and Joan Subirats
Networked Politics is the product of a collaborative research process
for rethinking political organisation in an age of movements and
networks. In a world where the traditional institutions of democratic
control have been weakened by an unconstrained global market and
superpower military ambitions, it uncovers diverse forms of resistance
with the potential to create new institutions for social change. The
authors set out the principles upon which such transformations should be
based, and the challenges that stand in the way of their realisation.
The discussion is then pursued along four interrelated lines of inquiry.
These examine social movements, including their development of new forms
of knowledge and organisation; progressive political parties, and
attempts to bring about transformative forms of political
respresentation; the dangers and opportunities facing the development of
political institutions in a network society; and the potential of new
techno-political tools for facilitating and reconceiving political
organisation. A series of case studies are also offered, drawing
critical lessons from the experience of the German Green Party; the 2006
French mobilisation against the controversial CPE employment law; and an
extended discussion on 'open source as a metaphor for new
institutions'.
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