A vivid dialogue between the extraordinary Professor Mogobe B Ramose and Professor Boaventura de Sousa Santos, held on the 5th of March 2014 at Freedom Park in Pretoria, South Africa. Trailer: ...
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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.
Below, some contributions to expand the discussion.
Projects
Is Big Data Shaping Democracy? A Critical Perspective.Rationalities of Alternative Democratic Relations: Proveniences from Bolivian Indigenous DemocraciesExtreme Events, Catastrophes and The Racialisation of The Exploited: The Real Nature of The StateGandhian Democratisation: An Account Against Political ColonisationBeyond The Polls: Political Languages and Practices ff The 15m MovementOther contributions
Inaugural Session of ALICE International Colloquium "Epistemologies of the South" by Boaventura de Sousa Santos: ...
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Video in Spanish. Si pudieras hablarle a la Madre Tierra (Pachamama), ¿qué le dirías? O mejor: ¿qué nos estará diciendo ella a nosotros? Hicimos estas preguntas a las y los participantes en el taller de la Universidad Popular de los Movimientos Sociales (UPMS) en Bolivia (octubre de 2013), realizado en el ámbito del Proyecto ALICE. E...
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Text of the closing talk by Boaventura de Sousa Santos in the public presentation of the first report of the Observatory for Crisis and Alternatives, held on 11 December 2013 at the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon.
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