Die 2015 einsetzende» Willkommenskultur «in Deutschland wird vielen Aktiven als
Sternstunde zivilgesellschaftlichen Engagements im Gedächtnis bleiben. Zugleich war und …

This article explores the terrain of social conflict as it developed across advanced capitalist
democracies throughout the 'age of austerity'that followed the global economic crisis. It …

Zusammenfassung Durch den Prozess einer Flucht wird gesellschaftliche Teilhabe
erschwert: Netzwerke der sozialen Interaktion gehen verloren, sprachliche Schwierigkeiten …

Since the outbreak of the global financial crisis that started in 2007/8, austerity measures
have been promoted in many European countries. Frequently justified as a form of crisis …

This article contributes to ongoing discussions about the practice of prefigurative politics by
urban social movements, and the relationship between prefiguration and other political …

The healthcare sector has been profoundly impacted by global neoliberal restructuring
which, in turn, has provoked campaigns of resistance from workers and users. Scholars' …

In the 1930s, Karl Loewenstein took an interest in the ease with which a fascist party came to
power within a parliamentary democracy. As he noticed, the Weimar Republic was …

This article examines the emergence of a grass-root movement that brings back the past in
order to prefigure communalist practices in the Basque Country. The movement comprises …

There have been historically high levels of social contestation throughout the contemporary
global political economy for over a decade now. Nevertheless, there are no obvious signs of …

Prefigurativism is the small-scale implementation of political and social models that are
imagined to be suitable for an ideal future society. In this article I analyze the assumptions of …