The Discourse of Anti-Instrumentalism: Exploring a Conceptual Model Through the Case Study of the We Won't Let Belgrade D(r)own Initiative

<span class="abs_content">The main focus of our paper is on a specific form of democratic discourse, used in different types of social engagement actions (petitions, speeches, intellectual engagement, ad hoc citizens' protests, social movements etc.), that attempts to politicize...

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Autores principales:	Irena Fiket, Marjan Ivkovic, Gazela Pudar Draško, Jelena Vasiljevic
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Materias:	anti-instrumentalist discourse deliberative democracy neoliberal instrumentalism social engagement we won't let belgrade d(r)own initiative Political science (General) JA1-92
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:d0ba9d01efc34cd5a1efc90de99204902021-11-21T15:11:41ZThe Discourse of Anti-Instrumentalism: Exploring a Conceptual Model Through the Case Study of the We Won't Let Belgrade D(r)own Initiative1972-76232035-660910.1285/i20356609v12i3p898https://doaj.org/article/d0ba9d01efc34cd5a1efc90de99204902019-11-01T00:00:00Zhttp://siba-ese.unisalento.it/index.php/paco/article/view/21282https://doaj.org/toc/1972-7623https://doaj.org/toc/2035-6609<span class="abs_content">The main focus of our paper is on a specific form of democratic discourse, used in different types of social engagement actions (petitions, speeches, intellectual engagement, ad hoc citizens' protests, social movements etc.), that attempts to politicize a certain issue by challenging the neoliberal principle of instrumentalism which argues that democratic procedures can legitimately be abandoned in the name of the greater efficiency of socio-economic development. Therefore, we start from identifying the discourse of "neoliberal instrumentalism" and its relative success in delegitimizing the welfare state and mechanisms of democratic decision making and we formulate a conceptual model of a democratic counter-narrative named "anti-instrumentalist discourse". Through empirical analyses of discourse used by We Won't Let Belgrade D(r)own initiative, that mobilized against the Serbian government's urban project Belgrade Wa-terfront we try to illustrate the applicability and the heuristic value of the proposed model. The data for the analyses were collected through 1) desk analysis of available secondary data on the Belgrade Waterfront project, 2) official statements and proclamations of the We Won't Let Belgrade D(r)own initiative, 3) semi-structured interviews with four core members of the initiative.</span><br />Irena FiketMarjan IvkovicGazela Pudar DraškoJelena VasiljevicCoordinamento SIBAarticleanti-instrumentalist discoursedeliberative democracyneoliberal instrumentalismsocial engagementwe won't let belgrade d(r)own initiativePolitical science (General)JA1-92ENPartecipazione e Conflitto, Vol 12, Iss 3, Pp 898-918 (2019)
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topic	anti-instrumentalist discourse deliberative democracy neoliberal instrumentalism social engagement we won't let belgrade d(r)own initiative Political science (General) JA1-92
spellingShingle	anti-instrumentalist discourse deliberative democracy neoliberal instrumentalism social engagement we won't let belgrade d(r)own initiative Political science (General) JA1-92 Irena Fiket Marjan Ivkovic Gazela Pudar Draško Jelena Vasiljevic The Discourse of Anti-Instrumentalism: Exploring a Conceptual Model Through the Case Study of the We Won't Let Belgrade D(r)own Initiative
description	<span class="abs_content">The main focus of our paper is on a specific form of democratic discourse, used in different types of social engagement actions (petitions, speeches, intellectual engagement, ad hoc citizens' protests, social movements etc.), that attempts to politicize a certain issue by challenging the neoliberal principle of instrumentalism which argues that democratic procedures can legitimately be abandoned in the name of the greater efficiency of socio-economic development. Therefore, we start from identifying the discourse of "neoliberal instrumentalism" and its relative success in delegitimizing the welfare state and mechanisms of democratic decision making and we formulate a conceptual model of a democratic counter-narrative named "anti-instrumentalist discourse". Through empirical analyses of discourse used by We Won't Let Belgrade D(r)own initiative, that mobilized against the Serbian government's urban project Belgrade Wa-terfront we try to illustrate the applicability and the heuristic value of the proposed model. The data for the analyses were collected through 1) desk analysis of available secondary data on the Belgrade Waterfront project, 2) official statements and proclamations of the We Won't Let Belgrade D(r)own initiative, 3) semi-structured interviews with four core members of the initiative.</span><br />
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author	Irena Fiket Marjan Ivkovic Gazela Pudar Draško Jelena Vasiljevic
author_facet	Irena Fiket Marjan Ivkovic Gazela Pudar Draško Jelena Vasiljevic
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title	The Discourse of Anti-Instrumentalism: Exploring a Conceptual Model Through the Case Study of the We Won't Let Belgrade D(r)own Initiative
title_short	The Discourse of Anti-Instrumentalism: Exploring a Conceptual Model Through the Case Study of the We Won't Let Belgrade D(r)own Initiative
title_full	The Discourse of Anti-Instrumentalism: Exploring a Conceptual Model Through the Case Study of the We Won't Let Belgrade D(r)own Initiative
title_fullStr	The Discourse of Anti-Instrumentalism: Exploring a Conceptual Model Through the Case Study of the We Won't Let Belgrade D(r)own Initiative
title_full_unstemmed	The Discourse of Anti-Instrumentalism: Exploring a Conceptual Model Through the Case Study of the We Won't Let Belgrade D(r)own Initiative
title_sort	discourse of anti-instrumentalism: exploring a conceptual model through the case study of the we won't let belgrade d(r)own initiative
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