{"id":1372,"date":"2017-05-18T17:26:53","date_gmt":"2017-05-18T15:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroalter.local\/?p=1372"},"modified":"2020-02-25T17:30:12","modified_gmt":"2020-02-25T16:30:12","slug":"shifting-baselines-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroalter.com\/it\/shifting-baselines-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"New Book out \u2013 Shifting Baselines of Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"

With contributions by Etienne Balibar, Ulrike Gu\u00e9rot, Gesine Schwan, Renata Avila, Barbara Spinelli, Andreas Karitzis, Lorenzo Marsili, Jonas Staal, among others, and interviews with city governors from Madrid to Naples.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

What if another Europe already exists? The new book of\u00a0European Alternatives follows this question\u00a0and\u00a0explores a Europe beyond\u00a0Neoliberalism and Nationalism. Etienne Balibar opens the book, asking for \u201cOur European incapacity\u201d. In her reply Ulrike Gu\u00e9rot reflects on what\u00a0\u201cOur European capacities\u201d could be. Together they tackle the fundamental crisis underlying the European integration process, the missed opportunity to become a Union of Citizens by giving up on national sovereignty.<\/p>\n

The<\/span>\u00a0publication is inspired by a meeting of<\/span>\u00a080 activists, researchers and artists from across the continent which took place in 2016.\u00a0European Alternatives invited them to its biannual Campus to develop strategies for an open and democratic Europe.\u00a0Many of the projects presented at the Campus\u00a0are to be found in the book:\u00a0\u00a0from the municipal level to the level of transnational media, from technology and counter-surveillance to a concrete proposal to revive the European refugee policy.<\/p>\n

The book \u00a0proves that a\u00a0shift towards a new way of thinking and doing politics is not only possible, but actually already happening.<\/div>\n
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\u201cThe ideas and projects presented in this book are exactly what the debate on Europe needs right now.\u201d<\/h3>\n

Saskia Sassen, Professor of Sociology, Columbia University<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n

1 \u00a0\u2013 Shifting Cities<\/h2>\n
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\u201cCities could be places of radical innovation in politics, spaces of actual reinvention of democracy\u201d, argues Giuseppe Caccia, scholar in History of Political thought, in his essay opening the chapter.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>It is often the city, the space of social and cultural condensation, that provides the breeding ground for new ideas and formations, where many of these movements have started from. In Spain we have seen major cities being taken over by platforms emerging from the square occupations.\u00a0Putting the citizen back into politics was the recipe to their success: what answers to the crisis of representation can we take from there?\u00a0City-makers, commoners, urban social movements, mayors, councillors, and activists that are helping to create, promote and develop new urban experiences come together in this chapter.\u00a0Contributions e.g:<\/p>\n