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Podcast: New Books in Political Science
Episode: Time to Rethink Democracy: Participatory and More-Than-Human Perspectives
Description: This is a special episode that features a conversation between Sonia Bussu and Hans Asenbaum on democracy, capitalism, climate and the practices and prospects of participatory, deliberative and more-than-human democracy to transform their relationship. Can we rethink democracy beyond the liberal-democratic institutions that were created as part of the bargain for fossil-fuel-driven, Western-centric economic growth? What does and could democratic participation look like? What does it mean to include the non-human in our understanding of democracy?
Sonia Bussu is Associate Professor in Public Policy at the University of Birmingham. She researches participatory democracy and in her work s...