(Real) social democracy is not just unknown to several generations of voters, but it is contradictory to their individualist or ethnicized worldview. So far the analyses and prospects do not look promising.
In our series on the Polish left, an interview on the future of politics in Europe and beyond with the sociologist, founder of the Krytyka Polityczna movement in Poland, and director of the Institute for Advanced Study in Warsaw.
We want young scientists to develop a personal sense of wonder.
Those few cold months camped outside St Pauls were a fragile attempt to create a political subject beyond the terrain of politics as usual.
In our current moment, we are witnessing a global, if contradictory, conversation about what public-ness might mean.
Project COBRA is an EU project which advocates the position that local communities have the capacity to identify their own "best practices" and share them with others.
In Romania traditional livelihoods and rare animal species are about to give way to a bizarre, private project to introduce American buffalo. It's part of a rural exodus, and EU law will make future land grabs even easier.
In order to navigate our increasing interdependence, we need a mental map to help us decide what sort of a rapport we wish to have with billions of others with whom we share our planet and destinies, but not our citizenship. And for that we need forums.
The issues change almost on a weekly basis, but the problem only becomes worse - the AKP’s slide into the grey area between majoritarian democracy and authoritarianism.
