Open AccessReclaiming Citizenship in the Post-Democratic Condition
Author(s) -
Ευγενία Σιαπέρα
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of citizenship and globalisation studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2450-8632
DOI - 10.21153/jcgs2017vol1no1art1063
Subject(s) - citizenship , reactionary , politics , democracy , state (computer science) , power (physics) , political science , political economy , sociology , corporate governance , reproduction , law and economics , law , economics , physics , finance , algorithm , quantum mechanics , computer science , ecology , biology
This article reviews the central problematique of citizenship, arguing that the challenges imposed by neoliberal globalisation involve the loss of political, social and civil rights. By negating the mediations performed by citizenship between the people and the state, post-democracy renders citizenship meaningless. The article traces two main responses to this, a reactionary and a progressive one, none of which can address the problems of citizenship. The grains of a new response are found in three developments: a new ontology of the citizen, brought into being through digital acts; the existence of dual power, creating new forms of governance and social reproduction from below; and between these, the development of new procedures that directly engage with state power. Taken together, these considerations indicate a new possibility for the radicalisation of citizenship rather than a return to the former state of affairs.