Description
The panel will explore how recent movements and new social actors are responding to crises of democracy, liberalism and structural inequalities in countries across the Mediterranean, Middle East and Asia. It will include papers that engage with different forms of mobilisation, social spaces and political legitimacy at the time that democratic politics is characterised by increasingly illiberal rhetoric, nationalism and change. Democratic politics is subject to conflicting developments; it comprises commitments to non-violent strategies and hope as well as rearticulation of new hegemonic frontiers that bolster populist and authoritarian movements. While exploring how democracy and hegemony require different global perspectives, the panellists will seek to draw on critical perspectives such as postcolonialism, poststructuralism, feminist and constructivist theories.
