Event location: Leipzig University
Event date and time: 20/11/2024 17:00:00
Watch the latest Druckfrisch book launch that spotlighted The D-Word: Perspectives on Democracy in Tumultuous Times, edited by Christi van der Westhuizen, Siphiwe Dube, and Zwelethu Jolobe.
This collection offers critical perspectives from the Global South and the European periphery on the challenges democracy faces today, bridging national and conceptual divides across fields such as political studies, queer studies, political sociology, philosophy, socio-legal studies. Academics enter into conversation with activists and scholar-activists.
📽️ Watch the discussion: https://youtu.be/1H0g7hEX6Bs
Panellists include:
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Christi van der Westhuizen (Nelson Mandela University)
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Rachid Boutayeb (Doha Institute for Graduate Studies)
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Svetluša Surová (Minority Issues Research Institute, Slovakia)
Moderated by Constanze Blum (Leipzig University, Germany), with Ulf Engel (Leipzig University) as discussant.