Democracy and Resilience: From Neoliberal Governance to Post-Liberal Democracy?
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11210%2F25%3A10497608" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11210/25:10497608 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=8fGvGpkd7l" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=8fGvGpkd7l</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.31577/filozofia.2025.80.2.7" target="_blank" >10.31577/filozofia.2025.80.2.7</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Democracy and Resilience: From Neoliberal Governance to Post-Liberal Democracy?
Original language description
The paper explores the relationship between resilience thinking and democratic theory, a topic often overlooked in both fields. While resilience thinking shares ontological and epistemological commitments with neoliberal governance, it should not be equated with neoliberalism, particularly in its critical form. The paper examines David Chandler's concept of post-liberal democracy, which builds on a critical understanding of resilience. However, it argues that resilience thinking limits human agency due to its ontological assumptions. As a result, post-liberal democracy departs from key democratic concepts such as collective will, popular sovereignty, deliberation, and representation. This is due to resilience thinking's rejection of the modernist liberal framework of autonomous subjects and its debasement of the social. The paper concludes that while resilience cannot be reduced to neoliberalism, resilience thinking promulgates an impoverished notion of democracy, making it less stimulating for democratic theory than its widespread use in the social sciences might imply.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/LX22NPO5101" target="_blank" >LX22NPO5101: The National Institute for Research on the Socioeconomic Impact of Diseases and Systemic Risks</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Filozofia
ISSN
0046-385X
e-ISSN
2585-7061
Volume of the periodical
80
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
SK - SLOVAKIA
Number of pages
14
Pages from-to
238-251
UT code for WoS article
001493753900006
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-105002861262