In two weeks (December 5) the deadline closes for applying for our full professorships in political communication and journalism @cpc@UvA_ASCoR University of Amsterdam.
🇩🇪 Explore the details of the recently published German #minipublic report!
Uplifting participant feedback reaffirms the project's impact: More than a dialogue space, it is empowering #citizens to actively shape important issues.
I know you are not so keen about this site, but here is @Skolinkvisition ’s mega tread of today. It’s really worth following and if you are not that good at Swedish also translate. He’s offering a full seminar about how Swedish education ended up in the catastrophic state where it is today … referencing the historic policies and legislation changes over time and their consequences https://twitter.com/skolinkvisition/status/1726191071099793753?s=12&t=BZevthLbzbU4ykoSU5vmzA
Graeber, David; Wengrow, David. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (2021)
I have already finished reading this long and powerful book. Now I have to meditate on the ideas it brings...
"Over the course of these chapters we have instead talked about basic forms of social liberty which one might actually put into practice: (1) the freedom to move away or relocate from one’s surroundings; (2) the freedom to ignore or disobey commands issued by others; and (3) the freedom to shape entirely new social realities, or shift back and forth between different ones."
"The Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology (formerly
Cambridge Encyclopedia of Anthropology) is a growing teaching and learning
resource. Its goal is to facilitate access to scholarship in Social Anthropology
for experts and non-experts worldwide. All entries are written and peer-reviewed
by leading academics."
”Kommunal hissar vit flagg framför vård- och omsorgskoncernerna. Det här är exakt det budskap som till exempel intresseorganisationen Vårdföretagarnas lobbyister försöker att sälja in till regeringen. Nu får de hjälp av medarbetarnas organisation.”
How do elected representatives understand democracy and their own role in it?
In a new paper with @haefner and [email protected] in German Politics, we present results of a survey conducted among German legislators in state parliaments and the Bundestag in 2022.
@landwehr_c@haefner@politicalscience@stallbaum If „Democracy's resilience arguably depends on political elites' loyalty to the political system“ something is very wrong with the political system…
Doom thinking is unproductive, I know, but it is hard not to feel a type of existential dread when faced with the latest climate science research. The ongoing research on the AMOC (Atlantic Meridian Ocean Current), for example, provides more and more terrifying results.
Political scientists: I really feel that we need to be fully aware of this research and we need to integrate it more seriously in our own research programmes!