🎭 #DemocraticTransformations No.20
🌎 @turkanfirinci argues that by embodying #HannahArendt’s ideas of freedom and action, 🪧 youth #ClimateActivists are transforming utopias from rigid blueprints into living practices of collective possibility. 👇
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🎭 #DemocraticTransformations No.18
🌍 In Africa, the imposition of Western democratic ideals reveals liberal democracy’s contradictions.
💡@MebratuDugda invites a radical reimagining, through decolonial praxis and epistemic rupture. #Decolonisation 👇
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🎭 #DemocraticTransformations No.17
🗳️ While regimes in #Africa do hold elections, many still fail to deliver on their democratic promises. @MebratuDugda argues for a non-adversarial form of #Democracy which emphasises inclusivity and cooperation. ow.ly/kISY50W0Fu0
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🇺🇸 #Harris may be the 1st Black woman to run for President, but her identity plays a minor role in public perception. @Hans_Asenbaum @DelDemUCan argues that her indefinability is creating a new progressive identity politics.bit.ly/4et1s8a
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🎭Black, Queer, Trans, Disabled Lives Matter! Read the prize-winning blog by @TheBrandonMack! 🏆
I'm delighted that this year's The Loop Best Blog prize goes to a text in the #DemocraticTransformations series! Congratulations, Brandon! #BlackLivesMatter
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🎉 Congratulations to our winner of the Loop Best Blog prize 2023, @TheBrandonMack!
🎭 Read the winning article from our #DemocraticTransformations series, selected by our jury @Faloulah, @ChrisHJGilson & @dmpullan
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🎉 Congratulations to our winner of the Loop Best Blog prize 2023, @TheBrandonMack!
🎭 Read the winning article from our #DemocraticTransformations series, selected by our jury @Faloulah, @ChrisHJGilson & @dmpullan
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🎭 #DemocraticTransformations 15
🇵🇱 In the EU's most homophobic country, #Poznań stands out as a beacon of queer acceptance
🏳️🌈 @TomaszGola00 of @UCLSSEES highlights the role of local NGOs, cultural receptivity & proactive governance in its transformation bit.ly/3y4whjx
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Read the latest #DemocraticTransformations
@ECPR_TheLoop 🎭 by the brilliant @deseonu
Dayo draws on Afrofuturism and creative artistic practices to unleash racially minoritized young people's democratic potential.
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🎭 #DemocraticTransformations No.14
Many young people are at the forefront of demanding positive change, such as #RacialJustice.
@deseonu draws on her research with racially minoritised young people to show how #Afrofuturism can resist the impact of racism
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🎭 #DemocraticTransformations 13
🧋In a globalised world, national borders are no constraint on mobilisation, say Kreutz & Makrogianni in a blog from @PRXJournal
🇹🇭 Thailand's #MilkTeaAlliance shows how online communities can form in reaction to repression
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A FULL HOUSE 🔥
Thank you to the #Canberra community for participating in such a lively discussion on #DemocraticTransformations last night.
We're looking forward to hosting our next politics-in-the-pub soon. Send us a DM for topic ideas ✉️
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LIVE ✨ from Verity Lane in #Canberra: Our first public event of 2024 on #DemocraticTransformations 🎭
Tonight, we will collectively brainstorm plans of action to spark systemic change.
To learn more, visit @ECPR_TheLoop: theloop.ecpr.eu/?s=…
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If you happen to live within striking distance of 🇦🇺 Canberra, do sign up for this fascinating event celebrating @Hans_Asenbaum’s terrific 🎭#DemocraticTransformations series on The Loop 👇🏾
29 Jan 2024
Excited for the launch event of @ECPR_TheLoop’s DEMOCRATIC TRANSFORMATIONS series. With the wonderful Melissa Williams, @kredman500 hosted by @NicoleCurato
Discussing
Democratic innovations 🗣️✋
Abolition #BlackLivesMatter
Nonhuman participation 🐙🤖
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🎭 #DemocraticTransformations No.12
Liberal democracies protect our freedom to express our identities. But @AlfMoore argues that the rigidity of ‘#IdentityWars’ reminds us of another vital aspect of democracy: the freedom > from < expressing our identity
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🎭 #DemocraticTransformations No.11
The 'popularity trap' of #SocialMedia tricked us into believing we were transforming #democracy. @paolapierri argues that a 'politics of presence' in the digital age needs to advance the visibility of marginalised people
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We need to stitch new political identities to confront neoliberal capitalism. @NigriVeloso's ethnographic work explores the carnivalesque identity transformations of the Brazilian mental health movement.
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🎭 #DemocraticTransformations No.10
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🇧🇷 🪧@NigriVeloso explores the transformative carnival protests of the Brazilian #MentalHealth movement
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To engender democratic transformations, we need to design digital spaces that are informed by democratic values argues @seejenspeak
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ICYMI: Our very own @Hans_Asenbaum is editing an @ECPR_TheLoop series on #DemocraticTransformations
Check out the growing collection here:
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🎭 #DemocraticTransformations No.9
How should we understand recent transformations to the spaces of democratic action? Jennifer Forestal outlines the spatial characteristics needed for democratic politics, and reminds us just how fragile those spaces are
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