Nouvelle formes de mobilisation politique
New forms of political mobilisation
The various protests, occupations and viral internet campaigns that have seized the imagination of the media and many citizens since the Arab uprisings in 2010-2011 challenge the current system of power by articulating alternative political manifestos and practising (re)newed forms of politics.
The consequence is that political mobilisation can now take the more traditional forms of holding placards, addressing politicians and decision-makers through protest, lobbying or raising awareness, but also organising a political alternative on the ground through alternative currencies, public agoras, protest picnics, flash-mobs, public-space university courses etc.
The awakening of a new form of political consciousness faces many challenges, but there are two crucial ways that many of these challenges can be understood: how can different experiences be translated from a context to another? How can these practices be politically effective in different political contexts?
Transeuropa Festival addresses these challenges through its peculiar format, both discussing those issues in the different activities planned in the 14 cities, and proposing itself as a way of enacting and imagining new forms of transnational participation.
