Subject Index
Adam Smith and the Circles of Sympathy, 142
affiliative cultural connections, 114
aggregative democracy,
agonistic democracy
versus antagonism,
constitutionalism and democracy perceived as guiding norms, 317
defined, 99
norm contestation, 315
normative baggage, 317
political parties in,
relation between fact-based and value-based dynamics, 316
and right-wing populism, 104
all-subjected principle, 46
anti-essentialist politics, 96
anti-essentialist politics in Europe,
authoritarianism in representative democracies, 83
Bolsonaro, Jair, 374
Border Lemons (cultural strategy), 138
border politics
cross-border citizenship culture, ,
MEXUS: Geographies of Interdependence,
performative protest movements,
US-Mexico,
boundaries in an closed democratic picture
acceptable inputs to,
breaches, 31
and civic criticism,
and civil rights, 48
and gatekeeping, 29
scope and limits of authority, 31
voting constituency,
boundaries in a open democratic picture, lack of, 34
Brazilian representative democracy challenges
authoritarianism, 83
dark money,
fake news,
institutional hijacking, 85
juridical systems,
Operation Lava Jato,
Brazilian representative democracy steps for change
court independence,
institutional watchfulness, 92
Brexit, ,
Bridge Staff, 141
Camera Obscura, 146
citizenship
civil rights and,
civil versus civic modes,
cross-border citizenship culture, ,
civic mode of citizenship
activity constrained by civil order,
all-affected principle, 46
versus civil mode,
democratization of,
order constrained by civic activity,
picture of democracy in,
prior to civil citizenship, 44
in representative democracy,
scope of, 45
solidarity as respect as respectfulness,
civil mode of citizenship
all subjected principle, 46
versus civic mode,
civil rights and,
democratization of,
picture of democracy in, 43
scope of,
solidarity as respect as observance, 49
Coastal Gas Link (CGL),
collective decision-making, 27
colonial states
in closed democratic picture,
Indigenous people as full members, 30
in open democratic picture,
community-based democracies. See also participatory democracy
collective decision-making, 27
defined, 2
UCSD Community Stations,
community-based democracies and populism. See also populism and democracy
COVID-19 pandemic,
individual rights and entitlements,
levels of institutional scale,
market-based logic, 72
meritocracy, corrosiveness of, 71
patriotism in,
role of, 71
concretization
colonial states,
defined,
conditional authority, background,
conditional authority in Europe
15M activists,
commonality of, 333
European Commission monitoring national spending, 334
European Court of Justice (ECJ) over conflicting national legislation,
loans to indebted countries, 334
several practices in concert,
conditional authority on Turtle Island
authority of modern treaties,
conditional forms of authority, 337
potlache system,
practices from bottom-up,
several practices in concert,
conditional authority, preliminary typology
relationship capable of complex tensions, 340
unidirectional condition setting used to deliberately upset power imbalance, 340
where conditions are mutual between parties, 340
constitutionalism modern challenges
processes of social alienation, regional dis/integration and fragmentation, 311
rule of law and role of law, 311
contingency from anti-essentialist perspective,
conviviality, Gitxsan, ,
criticism
and civil/civic picture of democracy,
in closed democratic picture, 28
in open democratic picture,
in representative democracy,
Cross-Border Commons, , 147
Culture and Imperialism, 111
dark money in representative democracies,
deliberative democracy,
demoarchy citizenship, 382
democracy
conditions at end of, 39
derivation of, 382
elusive concrete definition for,
rift between rhetoric and lived experience,
democracy and revolution
and concept of revolution,
indeterminacy and, 174
new normal of crisis and catastrophes, 172
potential of, 173
democracy and revolution radical democracy
anti-hegemonic and anti-populist logic,
Indigenous and migrant struggles,
democracy and revolution reasons
generative nature of,
guise of self-misunderstanding,
historical reasons, 175
institutional limits,
as part of a continuum,
permanent struggle of, 179
philosophical reasons,
political reasons, 175
and prefigurative politics,
questioning accepted practices, 178
self-limitation,
self-reflexivity, 181
without metaphysical foundations, 179
democracy as closed society picture
boundaries, 31
citizens both free and equal, 27
constitutional versus ordinary politics,
criticism in, 28
defined, 25
elections rules and procedures, 27
focus on institutions, 28
gatekeeping, 29
as solution to a problem about collective action and decision,
democracy as open society picture
acting and living together,
change acceptance in, 38
colonial states,
constitutional versus ordinary politics, 35
defined, 25
evolving conversation and critiques in,
ideal citizen in, 37
importance of action in,
lack of firm boundaries, 34
pluralism and, 33
role of laws and institutions in,
democracy ‘beyond the state.’See also norm contestation in global democracy
exile criticism,
subsections of, 2
democracy in a provisional key
aporetic nature of, , 55
autoimmunity, 56
Brexit example,
challenges to,
conflictual consensus, 58
defined, 53
and populism,
as question to be pressed, , 54,
struggles for, 55
what is rule? question, 54
what is the demos? question, 54
democratic fragility
and commitment to working how to proceed, 26
overthrow of institutions, 26
as process, 26
democratic joining hands. See also democratic self-and-other-determination
democratizing democracy,
lateral relationships count more than hierarchical ones,
moving forward in here and now,
multilogue,
need for understanding field of democracy, 375
new ways of democratic relations, 375
participatory democratic countermodernity in here and now,
relationship types, 380
for transformative democratic integration,
use dialogue to generate transformative cycles,
workshop, 376
democratic legitimacy in pluralistic spaces, recognition and interaction practices,
democratic legitimacy in pluralistic spaces, theorizing
reciprocal condition setting,
relative authority test,
several practices in concert,
democratic legitimacy in pluralistic spaces,conditional authority
background,
in Europe,
democratic self-and-other-determination. See also democratic joining hands
democracy never in isolation, xx
democratic reciprocity,
evolutionary nature of, xx
interdependence and mutual engagement, xvii
responsibility for own relationships, xx
ecocycle,
egocycle
background of,
thwarting,
elections (closed democracy), 27
empowerment in populism
external other role, 69
people as community, 68
right wing populism and nationalism,
as thin-center ideology, 67
environmental crisis and democracy. See also Gaia crisis
climate crisis, 61
Cross-Border Commons, 147
people affected, 59
plastic waste exports, 155
UCSD Community Stations mission,
European Court of Justice (ECJ),
European representative democracy
agonistic model,
Brexit and,
class essentialism,
collective subject construction,
crisis of neoliberalism,
populist movement in,
post-democracy in,
post-Marxist,
exile criticism,
analysis ‘out of place,’, 112
filiative and affiliative forms of cultural connections, 114
imperial experiences of past, 112
jealous nature of,
situations compel reflection,
state of contradictions, 113
and struggles of migrants,
tension between concept and experience, 113
exile criticism and political theory
bounded state obsession counter to experience,
critical disposition rather than theory of politics,
global justice, 120
history of,
lack of political theorist interest in,
versus liberal democratic theory,
limitations of a notion state,
question of identification to a community,
questions asked different from cosmopolitan, , 123
true humanism,
fake news in representative democracies,
feast (Gitxsan)
dynamics,
hosting logistics, 289
lines of authority, 290
planning,
significance of, 289
work that ceremony does,
Federalist Papers, 366
15M activists, , 378
filiative culture connections, 114
formal democratic practices, defined, 128
freedom of the moderns
contestation as a virtue,
cultural validation most important practice, 329–
norm contestation standpoints,
and sustainable normativity,
Freud, Sigmund, 96
Gaia democracy
democratic legitimacy in pluralist spaces,
globalization and global governance,
norm contestation as glue for globalized world,
Political Equator, 149
tree canopies, 164
Gaia democracy and environmentalism. See also more-than-human world
commitment to participatory democracy,
embodied in ecological and life sciences, 354
embodied in traditional ecological knowledge and wisdom (TEKW), 354
Gaia hypothesis, 355
Gaia democracy and environmentalism traditions
gift-gratitude-reciprocity worldview, ,
reconnecting and animating,
transition to the vicious systems, 362
Gaia hypothesis,
gift-gratitude-reciprocity worldview
defined,
four phases of,
Gitxsan Indigenous democracy and voting,
Gitxsan Indigenous democracy institutions, feast,
Gitxsan Indigenous democracy lessons
belonging, 296
conviviality rather than consent,
facticity of political community, 301
kinship as way of coming into relationship with others,
participation and citizenship,
religious law influences,
responsibility to give to society,
work that ceremony does,
Gitxsan Indigenous democracy practices
community building,
community importance, 285
culture of conviviality,
having to rebuild Indigenous law,
House importance,
interconnected lifeways,
kinship relations,
Lindberg on,
non-state society governance structure,
outsider acceptance,
peace agreement,
relationship systems,
social identity, 293
Global Summit of Refugees, 49
globalization
and global governance,
norm contestation as glue,
Gramsci, Antonio, , 152
great transformation
causing sustainability crisis, 363
enclosure of common lands, 363
human labor movement to corporate and automated systems, 364
internet surveillance capitalism, 364
privatization of property by corporations,
violent modernization processes,
great-disembedding process,
grounded normativity
defined, 237
in Indigenous relational networks, ,
norm contestation in global democracy,
producing Indigenous relational networks,
vocabulary illegible in minority rights,
grounded relationality, 156
Hermeneutics of the Subject, 160
Indigenous democracy
Canadian nation-to-nation relationship, 154
concept of interbeing,
Gitxsan,
Gixsan governance,
indigenous-other-determination,
oldest form of democracy,
participatory nature of,
potlache system,
relational networks,
settler states political history of membership,
struggles for,
Trans Mountain Pipeline (TMP),
worldviews in traditions, 160
Indigenous resurgence networks
colonial states attempts to stifle Indigenous relationships,
defined, 237
practice-based, ,
relational,
Indigenous resurgence networks stories
bus difficulties,
and colonial concretization,
community solidarity and tiny houses,
as generative democratic movements,
inclusiveness of, 252
place-based ethics of responsibility, 254
political praxis through politics from below, 253
salmon fish farm,
Indigenous resurgence networks theory
grounded normativity,
grounded normativity producing,
politics of recognition and self-determination from below, , 253
as prefigurative political project, 239
shift from powerlessness,
institutional hijacking in representative democracies, 85
institutions, democratic
in closed democracy, 28,
in closed democratic picture, 28
community-based democracies and populism,
Gitxsan feast,
non-state, 210,
overthrow of, 26
revolutionary limits,
intermediary organizations, 131
interregnum, 168
intra-action concept, 159
MEXUS: Geographies of Interdependence,
minority rights vocabulary used for Indigenous people
normative vocabulary illegible,
R v. Sparrow (Canada),
Secession Reference (Canada),
United States v Kagama, 231
modes of citizenship, 41
more-than-human world. See also Gaia democracy and environmentalism
going outside to formulate strategies, xix
judgement is perspectival, xix
legal order flows from creation story, xvii
natural world determines how people live, xx
vastness of natural world, perspective of human world, xix
Mutual Aid, 358
Neighbourhood houses (NHs),
norm contestation in global democracy. See also democracy ‘beyond the state’; protest
agonistic, 315
contestation as a virtue,
contingent on local practice, 326
cultural background knowledge, 327
cycle-grid model, 318
defined, 313
dual quality of norms, 313,
freedom of the moderns,
mapping contestations, 326
mechanisms of change according to guiding norms of global order, 322–
modern constitutionalism challenges,
norms and societal multiplicity,
opportunities in, 313
practices of validation, 326
role of fundamental norms in forefront, 310
standpoints,
sustainable normativity,
tension between foundational frame and universal validity,
place-based ethics of responsibility,
pluralism
democratic legitimacy,
European Court of Justice (ECJ) over conflicting national legislation,
pluralism in open democratic picture, 33
pluralism in representative democracy
aggregative versus deliberative democracy,
political parties in,
Secession Reference (Canada), 230
Political Equator, 149
political history of membership
categorical differences in legal vocabularies, 219
defined,
descriptivism,
function of, 214
Indigenous population struggles,
internal perspectives, 217
laws different in kind,
practical reality of legal system adjustments,
process cases,
process of determining membership,
social actor interpretation of laws, 220
theoretical lens,
political history of membership in settler states
legal vocabulary not legible,
minority rights vocabulary used for Indigenous people,
R v. Sparrow (Canada),
Secession Reference (Canada),
United States v Kagama, 231
political theorist
collective goodness versus fascist narrative,
as curator for social justice,
horizontal community engagement,
lack of intervention in exile criticism,
in solidarity with people struggling against,
politics of recognition and self-determination from below
Gaia democracy,
Indigenous resurgence networks, , 253
populism and democracy. See also community-based democracies and populism
centre-left sense of community,
conflictual consensus viewpoint,
levels of institutional scale,
populism as central part of democracy viewpoint, 57
populist antipluralism opposition viewpoint,
populist idea of community, 65
populist promise of empowerment,
post-democracy,
undemocratizing backlash, 156
post-foundationalist politics,
post-Marxism,
poverty trap, 166
precipitation whiplash, 144
protest. See also norm contestation in global democracy
in closed picture democracy, 27
conditional practices from bottom-up to upset power,
Gaia democracy, 372
Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, The, 223
Public Scholars, 141
R v. Sparrow (Canada)
background of legal fiction,
locking Indigenous people into minority status, 228
marshall law vocabulary,
wording of constitutional provision,
reciprocal condition setting,
Refugee Tales, 51
reifying standpoint, 319
relative authority test,
Representation of the Intellectual, 115
representative democracy
in Brazil,
civic engagement,
in Europe,
major family of democracy, 2
political parties in,
representative democracy challenges
authoritarianism, 83
competitive powers, 85,
democratic disconnection and deficit,
ecocentric and individualist lifeways,
inequalities, , 62,
juridical systems,
non-cooperation,
populism,
representative democracy criticism
dichotomy of liberalism and colonialism,
exile criticism,
rethinking standpoints, 319
revolution and democracy reasons
anti-hegemonic and anti-populist logic,
generative nature of,
guise of self-misunderstanding,
historical reasons, 175
Indigenous and migrant struggles,
institutional limits,
as part of a continuum,
permanent struggle of, 179
philosophical reasons,
political reasons, 175
and prefigurative politics,
questioning accepted practices, 178
self-limitation,
self-reflexivity, 181
without metaphysical foundations, 179
right wing populism and nationalism in Europe, 104
Rights of Man, The, 365
rigidity trap, 166
Sand County Almanac, 353
scalar model, 328
Schumpeter, Joseph, 97
Secession Reference (Canada)
presumption of plurality, 230
vocabulary of democratic constitutionalism,
settler colonialism
defined,
enclose Indigenous relationships,
settler states political history of membership,
Smith, Adam, 142
social promotion
defined, 131
to fill vacuum left by the retreat, 131
and importance of local knowledge and practices,
intentions of, 131
So-long-as decisions,
Spielraum, 42
sui generis in Indigenous law,
tent canopies
hegemony,
individualist features,
relational canopy,
worldviews as canopies of political understanding,
Tiny House Warriors,
Trans Mountain Pipeline (TMP) resistance movement
history of,
importance of Indian sovereignties,
land/water defenders as protesters,
resistance strategy,
Tiny House Warriors,
tree canopies
conceptualization, 156
ecocycle,
as varied assemblages of people and lifeways, 164
worldviews,
Trudeau, Justin
government purchase of Trans mountain, 266
leveraging reinstatement of Trans Mountain Pipeline,
Overton window,
support of Indigenous objections to pipelines, 263
Tsawalk, 160
Turtle Island democracy. See also nonviolence
authority of modern treaties,
conditional forms of authority, 337
legal order from creation story, xvii
lessons from the natural world, xviii
potlache system,
practices from bottom-up,
several practices in concert,
UCSD Community Stations
civic programming content,
defined, 129
design, 136
founding intention to ‘localize the global,’, 135
UCSD Community Stations locations
UCSD-Alacrán Community Station,
UCSD-CASA Community Station,
UCSD Community Stations mission
cross-border citizenship culture, ,
Cross-Border Commons, , 147
elastic civil identity,
environmental insecurity,
localizing the global,
MEXUS: Geographies of Interdependence,
Political Equator, 149
trust building and complexity management,
UCSD-Alacrán Community Station,
UCSD-CASA Community Station,
unfreedom of the moderns
overcoming dilemma by taking modern freedoms as profoundly contested, 317
six features of,
two forms of,
union decline,
United States v Kagama, 231
Uribe, Carlos, 133
vicious social systems features
democratic disconnection and deficit,
great transformation,
vicious social systems, transitions from other systems, 362
violence,
acceptance of state, 89
colonial, 275
mnemonic, 175
radical political, 150,
revolutionary,
Said on, 113
settler, 119
Visiting Economists Syndrome, 131
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