Democratic coordination and eco-social crises

Forman, Fonna, Owen, David and Tully, James (2022) Democratic coordination and eco-social crises. Citizenship Studies, 26 (4-5), 436-446. (doi:10.1080/13621025.2022.2091225).

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Abstract

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

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Accepted/In Press date: 26 March 2022

Published date: 12 July 2022

Additional Information: Funding Information: Most recently, a new alliance among civic coalitions in San Diego-Tijuana, El Paso-Ciudad Juárez and Brownsville-Matamoros to engage water challenges, called ‘Shared destinies: Hydro-Social Infrastructures for Community Involvement and Sustainability in Fragmented Border Regions’ funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF-SRS 2115124). Acknowledgments Publisher Copyright: © 2022 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.

Keywords: Civic and civil citizenship, Indigenous, and Gaia democracies, participatory, representative, transnational