|
Democracy - A Fragile Way of Life
|
|
Lecture
|
Shalini RanderiaTill van Rahden
|
|
Series: Lecture
After the Cold War ended, liberal democracy was taken for granted. Now it is in crisis: citizens distrust parliamentary politics, the people’s parties are losing members and votes, and social media are crowding out public debates. Challenging the sense of despair that informs recent studies on how democracy dies, Till van Rahden argued that it might prove more useful to explore what keeps it alive. A fruitful point of departure is the insight that democracy is not only a matter of elections and political parties, constitutions and parliaments, but is grounded in democratic experiences. The attention is less on how democratic government works, but on what equality, freedom, and justice feel like. A focus on democratic forms and aesthetics allows us to revisit the cultural and social foundations of democracy. No matter how stable a democracy may seem, it will wither and perish without ways of life that allow for and encourage democratic experiences.
Read more
|
Series: Lecture
After the Cold War ended, liberal democracy was taken for granted. Now it is in crisis: citizens distrust parliamentary politics, the people’s parties are losing members and votes, and social media are crowding out public debates. Challenging the sense of despair that informs recent studies on how democracy dies, Till van Rahden argued that it might prove more useful to explore what keeps it alive. A fruitful point of departure is the insight that democracy is not only a matter of elections and political parties, constitutions and parliaments, but is grounded in democratic experiences. The attention is less on how democratic government works, but on what equality, freedom, and justice feel like. A focus on democratic forms and aesthetics allows us to revisit the cultural and social foundations of democracy. No matter how stable a democracy may seem, it will wither and perish without ways of life that allow for and encourage democratic experiences.
Read more
|
|
War, Work and Want: How OPEC Caused Mass Migration and Revolution
|
|
Lecture
|
Ivan VejvodaRandall Hansen
|
|
Series: Lecture
|
Series: Lecture
|
|
The Limits of Migration Control
|
|
Lecture
|
Dariusz StolaIvan VejvodaRanabir Samaddar
|
|
Series: Lecture
Thanks to a historically unprecedented system of police control, transnational mobility from European communist states is probably the best documented social phenomenon of its kind and a unique experiment in the limits of the state control of mobility. This lecture presented some of the conclusions of Stola’s research project on migrations from communist Poland. These migrations underwent a marked evolution, from the movement of millions of people in the 1940s; to almost nil under the non-exit policy of the early 1950s; to the reemergence and gradual expansion of transnational mobility, especially within the Soviet bloc, between 1956 and 1980; to mass population flows in the late 1980s. Each trip outside the bloc, and indeed each trip abroad for most of the duration of communist rule, required applying for a permit from the Security Service. This procedure resulted in an archival collection of passport files that fills some 60 kilometers of shelf space. Despite the constraints, more than two million people eventually left Poland for good, and temporary movements occurred on a mass scale, pioneering forms of mobility that continued well after 1989. This lecture shed light on the key factors and currents of migration in communist Poland, as well as the evolution of the migration regime, from early imitation of the Soviet model to its eventual implosion.
Read more
|
Series: Lecture
Thanks to a historically unprecedented system of police control, transnational mobility from European communist states is probably the best documented social phenomenon of its kind and a unique experiment in the limits of the state control of mobility. This lecture presented some of the conclusions of Stola’s research project on migrations from communist Poland. These migrations underwent a marked evolution, from the movement of millions of people in the 1940s; to almost nil under the non-exit policy of the early 1950s; to the reemergence and gradual expansion of transnational mobility, especially within the Soviet bloc, between 1956 and 1980; to mass population flows in the late 1980s. Each trip outside the bloc, and indeed each trip abroad for most of the duration of communist rule, required applying for a permit from the Security Service. This procedure resulted in an archival collection of passport files that fills some 60 kilometers of shelf space. Despite the constraints, more than two million people eventually left Poland for good, and temporary movements occurred on a mass scale, pioneering forms of mobility that continued well after 1989. This lecture shed light on the key factors and currents of migration in communist Poland, as well as the evolution of the migration regime, from early imitation of the Soviet model to its eventual implosion.
Read more
|
|
Beyond the Leader: Looking at Grassroots Reasons for the Rise of Illiberalism
|
|
Lecture
|
Ludger HagedornMarlene Laruelle
|
I want to attend
|
Series: Lecture
|
Series: Lecture
|
|
Alien Logic
|
|
Lecture
|
Ayşe ÇağlarMartin BurckhardtTimothy Snyder
|
|
Series: Lecture
|
Series: Lecture
|
|
The Future of Work: Is Artificial Intelligence a New Road to Serfdom?
|
|
Lecture
|
Robert Skidelsky
|
|
Series: Lecture
|
Series: Lecture
|
|
Reflections on Mass Violence: War, Excess and Responsibility
|
|
Lecture
|
Ludger HagedornNergis Canefe
|
|
Series: Lecture
|
Series: Lecture
|
|
The Death and Rebirth of Democratic Internationalism: Controversies and Possibilities
|
|
Lecture
|
Claus OffeLudger HagedornMicheline Ishay
|
|
Series: Lecture
|
Series: Lecture
|
|
Destroying Democracy by Law
|
|
Lecture
|
Kim ScheppeleMisha Glenny
|
|
Series: Lecture
|
Series: Lecture
|
|
Can Beauty Save the World? On Historical Injustice, Reconciliation and the Role of Aesthetic Education
|
|
Lecture
|
Lea YpiMisha Glenny
|
|
Series: Lecture
|
Series: Lecture
|