This event is part of CIVICA's Democracy in the 21st Century Seminar Series.
The topic of democratic resilience has become a salient research area in democratic studies in the past couple of years, even though it is still in a relatively early stage of development. The bulk of this literature has focused on providing in-depth case studies and broader empirical analyses, with some prescriptive conclusions usually drawn on their bases. However, extensive conceptual assessments of democratic resilience have been fairly rare, with only a handful of exceptions (e.g. Boese et al.: 2021; Holloway and Manwaring: 2022; Volacu and Aligică: 2023).
The aim of this seminar is to engage with a variety of questions related to the conceptualization of democratic resilience. These will range from the different and sometimes incompatible ways in which it has been defined, to the relation between our understanding of democracy and that of democratic resilience, and to the pitfalls raised by adopting either excessively maximalist or excessively minimalist perspectives when it comes to spelling out the centrally defining elements of democratic resilience.
Speaker: Alexandru Volacu
Associate Professor, University of Bucharest
Director of the Bucharest Center for Political Theory
Member of the Justice Everywhere cooperative of political theorists
*The link to the online event will be provided after registration.
This event is part of a seminar series organised in the framework of CIVICA – The European University of Social Sciences. The CIVICA alliance brings together ten leading European higher education institutions in the social sciences. The alliance's mission is to create an inter-university campus for collaborative teaching, research, and innovative learning, while fostering academic excellence and global civic engagement. CIVICA was selected by the European Commission as one of the pilot European Universities in 2019 and confirmed as a successful alliance in 2022 for its full roll-out under the Erasmus+ programme. Read more on civica.eu.
