Such a fantastic initiative!

"Our selves are characterized by inner multiplicity", write Hans Asenbaum and Taina Meriluoto is @MeriTaina on BlueSky. Read their work to journey from the politics of presence to the politics of becoming. berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/…

"The commercial stranglehold on academic publishing is doing considerable damage to our intellectual and scientific culture" theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

A line from an experience of Athens' latest in democracy art: The show’s opening statement is jarring: the journey towards democracy, the wall panel claims, “begins with identifying the opponent” amp.theguardian.com/artanddesign/a…

"I've been quite impressed with the amount of intellectual work and activism that has developed and is taking on an explicitly anti-capitalist frame." - Nancy Fraser berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/…

How to Democratise the Economy? Combining Democratic Theory and Critical Political Economy, our (Nick Vlahos The Butterfly Collector 🦋) introduction to a special volume for Democratic Theory on "Democratising the Economy", check it out here

Check out the interview with Nancy Fraser before diving into the articles - it really helps to set the mood for what colleagues dig into.

How can we foster a closer conversation between the fields of democratic theory and critical political economy? PUBLICATION ALERT 📢 The latest issue of Democratic Theory is out now. Special Issue edited by Nick Vlahos Adrian Bua & The Butterfly Collector 🦋. berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/…

a much needed perspective in democratic theory! Citizen Participation - [email protected] Sonia Bussu also on @[email protected] Nick Vlahos The Butterfly Collector 🦋

Read "Worker Cooperatives for a Democratic Economy: A Conversation with Critical Theory" in the latest Open Access special issue of Democratic Theory, by Neal Harris and Robin Jervis: bit.ly/3LG3h4K

This portfolio of published essays from 2010-2021 was offline for a while due to tech issues I couldn't understand. Thanking friends for designing this site years ago and for the kind help of people so much smarter than I on getting it live again! jeanpaulgagnon.work

We're ending the week with 📸 to celebrate the newly launched Honours programme of University of Canberra's Faculty of Business, Government and Law Business, Government & Law @ UC. Led by The Butterfly Collector 🦋, our Centre is proud to develop innovations in research-led teaching 🌟

I learned from many of the colleagues we love that good work takes time. I made this post more than 2 years ago, and am pleased to share the book will be published in 2025 with University College London Press (Chicago UP will market and distribute in NA) in open access.

My university's budget problems have made the front page of this morning's Canberra Times. Here's an article on how to democratize universities. It's from 2020, things have changed, but many ideas, like sentinels in stone, remain in their salience. arena.org.au/the-democratic…

The “crisis” of democracy is a crisis of representation. New parties are arising from this moment. The danger that they pose is not that they are antidemocratic, but that they are antiliberal. Adam Przeworski journalofdemocracy.org/articles/who-d…

👀 New study by Andrej Zaslove and Maurits Meijers: "We find that citizens with higher populist attitudes are not less supportive of key institutions of liberal democracy, but reject mediated representation through political parties." journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…

'Democratic deliberation cannot take its starting point from an assumed common rationality or common interests but from the fiction of the possibility to understand each other.' Learn more about identity politics and deliberation here 👇 tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.108…

30 years ago interviewers said a gender elective would not look good on my uni transcript- surprise I made a whole career on it - reflections in my new article: Would teaching gender as core, not boutique, move us closer to the SDG gender equality goal? tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

🎉 Congratulations to our winner of the Loop Best Blog prize 2023, Brandon Mack! 🎭 Read the winning article from our #DemocraticTransformations series, selected by our jury Marianna Karakoulaki, Chris Gilson & Danielle Pullan bit.ly/4d4wXnm