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Democratizing democracy

Representative democracy is nowadays the most spread and legitimated political system in the world. In the last decades a wide consensus was created about representative democracy (free elections, universal suffrage, freedom of thought, etc.) as the best and most perfect form of government, this ideological vision becoming an almost absolute and unquestionable value. This thematic area includes the study of alternative forms of democracy, in which voting is neither the beginning nor the final goal of democracy: participative, deliberative and communitarian forms enacted both at local and national levels that directly interpellate representative democracy. The aim of the thematic area is to reveal the democratic diversity of the world, and explore the potential of these participative and deliberative experiences in the creation of new and more demanding forms of political articulation and decision.

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Boaventura de Sousa Santos – From the Alternative Development to Development Alternatives

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Democracy in Debate – Boaventura at Mário de Andrade Library

The Mário de Andrade Libraby in São Paulo, Brazil, has been organizing a series of lectures on the topic of democracy. The goal is, first of all, to address the strikes for social rights in Brazil by social movements. The democracy i...

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Which kind of State can deliver which kind of development?

Boaventura de Sousa Santos 17 February 2014 Title: Which kind of State can deliver which kind of development? Venue: Stein Auditorium, India Habitat Center, New Delhi. Audience: Professors, Researchers, Journalists, Activists and Students of various Universities (Public and Private, such as Jindal Global University (JGU) and Organizations ...

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The Memory of the Future

Lecture by Boaventura de Sousa Santos on 7 June 2013 at Fundação Mário Soares, Lisbon. Conference series: "Memory and Citizenship". Video in Portuguese: ...

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