How does the dominant understanding(s) of the demo(i)cratic subject in the EU, and of democracy more broadly, shape the EUâs democratic innovations on âcitizen participationâ? What are the politically and normatively preferable alternatives, both in terms of the conceptualisation of the democratic subject in the EU and in the ensuing political practices? The book addresses these questions combining a political theory with a political sociology perspective, contrasting the âdemocracy without politicsâ approach of the EU in the context of the Conference on the Future of Europe with that of ongoing transnational activist processes. In doing so, it develops an agonistic alternative to âthe people(s)â as the political imaginary of democracy in the EU, which is based on the idea of the âdecolonial multitudeâ. Thus, the book puts forward a diagnosis of current debates on EU democratic legitimacy as well as proposing an alternative.
