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  • 10 - Democratizing Revolution

  • from Part III - Local/Global Participatory Democracies
  • Edited by James Tully, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Keith Cherry, University of Alberta, Fonna Forman, University of California, San Diego, Jeanne Morefield, University of Oxford, Joshua Nichols, McGill University, Montréal, Pablo Ouziel, University of Southampton, David Owen, University of Southampton, Oliver Schmidtke, University of Victoria, British Columbia
  • Book:
    Democratic Multiplicity
    Published online:
    21 July 2022
    Print publication:
    04 August 2022, pp 172-192
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    Building on ideas experimentally developed in revolutionary practice and elaborated in the works of Hannah Arendt, Cornelius Castoriadis, and others, this chapter develops the contours of a new – grounded and pluralist – understanding of revolution that does not subordinate the radical democratic practices in the “here and now” to some future project, but, rather, grounds revolution precisely in this “here and now”. The radical-democratic potential of revolution, which is evidenced in contemporary movements and struggles of migrants and indigenous peoples, is tied to its internal heterogeneity and ambivalence that needs to be preserved against the urge of homogenizing its subject, its practices, its aims and its trajectories. As the chapter argues, it is precisely the revolutionary and democratic potential of the apparently marginal – as exemplified, amongst others, in the struggles of migrants and indigenous peoples today – that allows us to see that revolutionary practices are essentially practices of enacting radical democracy “here and now”.