The publications Alexandria and Polyhedros invite you to the presentation of the e book by Giorgos Siakantaris “What Democracies will exist in 2050?” Publish-democracy, post-politics, transitions”, which is able to happen on Wednesday, July 3 at 8 pm within the backyard of Polyedros.
The e book will likely be mentioned by:
Sia Anagnostopoulou, Member of Parliament for Achaia (New Left), Panteion College Professor, Kostas Zachariadis, PG Member (Syriza-PS), Christos Bouras, Rector of the College of Patras, Marinos Skandamis, Dr. Authorized – Govt Pasok and the creator Giorgos Siakantaris.
The occasion will likely be moderated by Apostolos Anastasopoulos, Journalist, of the “Peloponnisos” newspaper
The creator discusses, a few years earlier than this additionally entered the Greek political system, the phenomenon of post-politics within the functioning of democracies. What Democracies will likely be like in the course of the twenty first century is determined by whether or not politics will reach offering solutions to post-politics.
The e book analyzes 5 main developments associated to the risks that threaten consultant liberal democracies as we knew them till the tip of the twentieth century.
These are:
– The marginalization of events and parliamentary establishments for the sake of govt and management energy and supranational organizations that aren’t accountable to residents.
– The so-called “democracy of advocacy”, the transition from the party-cartel to the party-supermarket and from there to the post-party and the technocratic occasion, in addition to the transformation of the Left-Proper distinction.
– The phenomena of the “presidentialization” of the manager energy, the “judiciary”, the brand new constitutionalism, the interventions within the Unbiased Authorities and the resistances to the authoritarianization of the political techniques.
– The transition of Democracies and nationalisms from the pre-globalization period to that of nationwide populism, elitist populism (excessive Heart), the sharpening of non secular sentiments and Islamic terrorism. Simplistic divisions similar to “popularism-anti-popularism” and “friends-enemies of Democracy” are additionally criticized right here.
– The strengthening of the Far Proper and Trumpism because of reactions and fears within the face of downward social mobility, theories of “meritocracy”, local weather disaster, immigration and technological adjustments (synthetic intelligence).
Is there a means out? Draft response to the findings of the e book.
Giorgos Siakantaris is a health care provider of sociology, creator, essayist, e book critic and columnist for the newspapers To Vima and Ta Nea. He’s additionally a member of the editorial board of The Books’ Journal and a contributor to the Bookpress web site. He was scientific director at “ISTAME Andreas Papandreou” and scientific supervisor of the “Political Laboratory for Social Democracy”. He’s an govt of MOD SA (Organizational Unit for the Administration of Growth Applications). He has been a professor of sociology on the TEI of Kalamata, the Faculty of Engineering Ikaros and the Faculty of Police. His works are: The lengthy absences. Greek democracy on protection (Polis, 2011), Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Thinker of Enlightened Democracy (Polis, 2012) and The Primacy of Democracy. Social democracy after social democracy (Alexandria, 2019).
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