Bayeh, Jumana – Oleinikova, Olga (eds.): Democracy, Diaspora, Territory: Europe and Cross-Border Politics

Abstract

This volume offers a profoundly new interpretation of the impact of
modern diasporas on democracy, challenging the orthodox understanding
that ties these two concepts to a bounded form of territory. Considering
democracy and diaspora through a deterritorialised lens, it takes the post-Euromaidan Ukraine as a central case study to show how modern diasporas
are actively involved in shaping democracy from a distance, and through
their political activity are becoming increasingly democratised themselves.
An examination of how power-sharing democracies function beyond the
territorial state, Democracy, Diaspora, Territory: Europe and Cross-Border
Politics compels us to reassess what we mean by democracy and diaspora
today, and why we need to focus on the deterritorialised dimensions of
these phenomena if we are to adequately address the crises confronting
numerous democracies. As such, it will appeal to scholars of sociology and
politics with interests in migration and diaspora, political theory, citizenship
and democracy.