This paper discusses a genuinely new political alternative. It is about the alter-globalization movement (AGM) founded on municipalized -yet global- democracy, horizontalism, and decentralization. The paper starts from the assumption that for a long time, the most important political innovations have not come from the traditional centres of political power, but they have instead been invented by the “newest social movements”. It tackles some of the topical debates on global, world and cosmopolitan citizenship in the light of a conceptualization of translocal citizenship that, in the long run, may prove to be the single most subversive thing the AGM has ever recuperated.
Keywords: alter-globalisation movement • translocal citizenship • direct democracy • municipalisation
