Crisis of Politics, Crisis of Democracy?
Debate
Free
For some years now, the framework within which politics has traditionally been inscribed has seemed to be in crisis. There is more and more talk of the scant identification of citizens with their political leaders and institutions. The debate proposed in this symposium goes beyond questioning specific aspects of political life and aims to focus, rather, on the place that politics should occupy in a society that has undergone profound transformation.
Globalisation and its effects on the traditional foundations of the state (territory, population, sovereignty) makes it more necessary than ever before to talk about how the collective dimension of this new society should be structured.
In order to open up debate on these matters, and on the occasion of the launch of the book Elementos de Nueva Política (Elements of the New Politics, Barcelona, CCCB, 2003), the CCCB proposes the following panel discussions on 10 and 11 February 2004.
Tuesday, 10 February
"Democratic Disaffection and the New Politics"
Joan Subirats, Professor of Political Science at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, and editor of the book Elementos de Nueva Política (Barcelona, CCCB, 2003).
"Is There a New Left for a New Politics?"
Fernando Vallespín, Professor of Political Science at the Autonomous University of Madrid.
A discussion with the co-authors of the book Elementos de Nueva Política (Barcelona, CCCB, 2003): Germà Bel (Professor of Applied Economics at the University of Barcelona), Quim Brugué (lecturer in Political Science at the Autonomous University of Barcelona), Joan Font (lecturer in Political Science at the Autonomous University of Barcelona), Ricard Gomà (lecturer in Political Science at the Autonomous University of Barcelona), Josep Ramoneda (director of CCCB) and Ferran Requejo (Professor of Political Science at the Pompeu Fabra University of Barcelona).
Wednesday, 11 February
"Responses to the Crisis of Traditional Political Representation"
Pascal Perrineau, Professor at the Institut d'Études Politiques de París, director CEVIPOF (research laboratory of the Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques), and author of Le désenchantement démocratique (París, Ed. Aube, 2003).
"Politics as Dissidence"
Paolo Flores d'Arcais, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Rome, La Sapienza, and director ofthe review Micromega.
Presented and moderated by Josep Ramoneda, director of the CCCB.
Presenters: Josep Ramoneda
Moderators: Josep Ramoneda
Participants: Joan Subirats, Fernando Vallespín, Germà Bel, Quim Brugué, Joan Font, Ricard Gomà, Ferran Requejo, Josep Ramoneda, Pascal Perrineau, Paolo Flores d’Arcais