Zygmunt Bauman: globalisation, politics and Europe Ian Varcoe - openDemocracy - 0 views
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Reading Bauman helps people to insulate themselves from these false solutions to their difficulties.
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might say that the problem for people today is how to resist consumer society, to find ways of caring for others, and to find a new politics that is above the nation-state. The globalisation phenomenon requires this if it is to be encountered by humanity in a more balanced form than at present when its negative side predominates over its positive side. The European integration project may offer some guidance.
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The european project as a hope for a better globalisation ... but does it have the right bottom-up legitimacy to be that? is it not too much of an elitist project?
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The political institutions of this are parliamentary democracy and the public sphere; the former has been eroded and the latter hollowed out.
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This makes me think of Simon Zadek at AccounAbility, who believes that the future of democracy will be found in the accountability of non-state instituions, like business and NGOs. Davos and CSR, not EU and UN.
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How, I wonder ...