The Politics of Time and Space: (Counter)Hegemonic Mobilisations in Europe

Abstract

We live in times of crisis. And while some have been arguing whether it is a permacrisis or a polycrisis, we focus on something that emerges in the context of crisis – hegemony. Ernesto Laclau famously stated that the concept of hegemony alludes to an absent totality and to (contingent) attempts at recomposition and rearticulation which made it possible for (political) struggles to be given a meaning. Lying at the intersection of philosophy, political science, psychology, and geography, this panel brings together researchers disentangling a connection between the politics of meaning-making, space- and us-building. Its contributions focus on the transnational phenomenon of mobilisation – citizen, populist, and even authoritarian mobilisations – in both physical and virtual spaces, as well as across a variety of European countries. By focusing on cases of (counter)hegemonic mobilisations through the politics of time and space in a wider Europe, the interdisciplinary collection of papers in this panel sheds light on affective practices of building a collective subjectivity in virtual and physical spaces alike. In doing so, it specifies how in practice (counter)hegemonic actors engage in the ongoing struggle over the interpretation of the “Us” across spatial and discursive boundaries.

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Cynical Soberness or Mild Lunacy? Adorno on the Emotional Economy of Authoritarianism	View Paper Details
Populist Politics of Time and Space: The Case of Far-right Protest in Dresden	View Paper Details
Symbolic Appropriation of Time and Space: The Case of Russia's Occupation of Ukrainian Territories	View Paper Details
Space for the people: building and governing a multifunctional participatory public space in Maunula, North Helsinki	View Paper Details