Politiken des Lebens

Politiken des Lebens: Technik, Moral und Recht als institutionelle Gestalten der menschlichen Lebensform [Politics of Life: Technology, Morality and Right as Life Forms] is a volume that brings together texts that deal with the challenges of modern biopolitics

What We Mean when We Say … Local Self-Government

Local self-government is a form of direct democracy that aims to involve citizens in making important decisions regarding the immediate environment of their place of residence. Socialist Yugoslavia had a highly developed system of local self-government in the form of Local Communities (mesna zajednica) that gave citizens the opportunity to directly decide on achieving common goals and meeting common needs in urban, suburban and rural residential areas.