Relocating Politics -The Plurality Of The “Local”
Relocating Politics -The Plurality Of The “Local”

Summary/Abstract: As Arjun Appadurai recently claimed, “some essential principles and procedures of the modern nation-state – the idea of a sovereign and stable territory, the idea of a containable and countable population, the idea of a reliable census, and the idea of stable and transparent categories – have come unglued in the era of globalization” . This is particularly true for Europe as the historical geopolitical site where the nation-state and its conceptual frame came into being. The challenge we face, as political theorists, is today a radical one. There is a need not only for rethinking our political lexicon and the categories which support it, but for relocating politics itself.

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