‘We Are All Beranselo’: Political Subjectivation as an Unintended Consequence of Activist Citizenship

Bojan Baća

Europe-Asia Studies, 2017, vol. 69, issue 9, 1430-1454

Abstract: Drawing on Jacques Rancière and Engin F. Isin, this essay discusses the success of a citizen-led mobilisation in rural Montenegro that eschewed the country’s predominant ethnopolitical identity cleavages by using innovative repertoires of contention. As a result, this grassroots movement unintentionally brought into being a transcendent political subjectivity that was based on civic principles rather than ethnic values. The essay explores how the Beranselo movement embodied a democratic practice radically different from already available institutional practice of politics, in the process transforming the local ethnos into a demos and creating a dynamic of cross-ethnic, civic-minded mobilisation, organisation, and solidarity.

Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1080/09668136.2017.1388357

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