Popular University of Social Movements (UPMS) workshop of Leiria. It took place in February 2013 under the subject Letters to the Europeans. ...
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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
The President of the Icelandic Constituent Assembly, Salvor Nordal, gave a testimony on the experience of shared and participative constitutional drafting. His reflection expanded on how new technologies reinvigorated the constitutional process and to the drafting of the constitutions of Bolivia and Ecuador by facil...
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Boaventura de Sousa Santos speacks in an interview on 25th April to the Spanish Radio www.cadenaser.com on "suspended democracy". Audio in spanish. ...
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Original title "Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Cientista e Ativista Social".
This video shows some moments of the “Disquiet Questions of Our Times...
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