Memoria 2002 - Fundación César Manrique

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Encounter:
Another world order
grass-roots participation); José Vicente Barcia, Getafe Town
Hall Integration Co-ordinator (Shared management: a
proposal to delve deeper into democracy. Territorial
management perspectives and experience); and Eloísa Acosta,
participation expert with the Cordoba Town Hall
(Participatory budgets. Cordoba, a case study).
The course aimed to conduct an in-depth review of existing
democracies, their limits, shortcomings and potential for
grass-roots regeneration.
The course stressed the concept of citizenship and social
participation in historic development. The definition of
citizenship has been monopolised by the State, reducing
citizens to mere subjects of representative democracy.
Nonetheless, new citizen demands and aspirations have placed
the citizen at the centre stage of democracy.
Some of the more prominent practical experiences in
participatory democracy dealt with in the course were: the
regeneration of the Trinitat Nova quarter in Barcelona
through co-operation between neighbourhood associations
and social agents; integration projects in the town of Getafe;
and the application of participatory budgets for certain areas
of municipal management in Cordoba.
From 13 to 15 November, the course entitled Another world
order was held at FCM headquarters under the leadership of
Francisco Jarauta, chair of philosophy at the University of
Murcia.
The following lecturers took part in the course: René Passet,
emeritus professor of economics at the University of Paris
(Logical consequences of neo-liberal globalisation); Francisco
Jarauta (Cosmopolitanism vs Empire), Ignacio Ramonet,
Editor-in-Chief of Le Monde Diplomatique (Militarisation of
globalisation); Mariano Aguirre, director of the Centre of
Research for Peace, Madrid (What comes after the collapse of
States); and Javier de Lucas, chair of philosophy of law with
the University of Valencia (Immigration: the mask of the
globalisation process).
The course addressed the transformations taking place in our
age from different angles, in terms of both systems of
representation and the way we think about the world.
In his lecture, course director Francisco Jarauta analysed the
growing predominance of economic logic at the expense of
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