Marianne Maeckelbergh is Lecturer in Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology at Leiden University, Netherlands and is the author of The Will of the Many: How the Alterglobalization Movement is Changing the Face of Democracy (Pluto Press, 2009). She has been active in grassroots politics since the early 1990s and is currently working on the film series www.globaluprisings.org.
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Published in: HomeExperiments in democracy and diversity within the Occupy Movement(s)
Horizontal democracy attempts to ensure equality by embracing diversity and conflict. Within these political...