Postdemokratie und Engaged Citizenship. Optionen zivilgesellschaftlichen Protests am Beispiel des europäischen Attac-Netzwerkes

The article deals with the European Attac network as a learning platform through which engaged European citizenship is constituted in a context described as post-democratic: The discursive success, which puts the critique of neoliberalism and some of Attac‘s claims in a mainstream position, is confronted with the fact that these critiques and claims have not found any expression in politics yet. Fundamental considerations have emerged from this case study concerning the following questions: How can current dilemmas for engaged citizenship in Europe be understood against the background of the post-democratic thesis? What kind of light do further approaches, such as a governmentalist perspective, shed upon the described education processes?