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12 October 2022
16:30 - 18:30

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On-Campus
Building: 11, Level B
Room: 44

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Faculty of Business, Government and Law

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BGL Professorial Lecture

Topic:   Can there be a global deliberative democracy?

Speaker: Professor Nicole Curato, Political Sociology at the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance at the University of Canberra

Date of Event: Wednesday 12 October 

Time: 4:30 pm for a 5:00 pm start. Drinks and nibbles will be served from 4:30 pm. 

Venue: Building 11, Level B, Room 44, University of Canberra, Bruce, ACT 2617

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About this event:

For better or worse, deliberative democracy has become a dominant paradigm in the theory and practice of democracy. It is portrayed as radical alternative or necessary supplement to institutions of representative democracy by amplifying the considered judgment of ordinary citizens in collective decision-making.

This presentation interrogates the extent to which deliberative democracy can be a transformative democratic project. It argues that deliberative democracy’s radical potential is constrained by its ‘motivated silence’ on racist theory and subjugated knowledges. Following Robert Shillam’s work on decolonizing politics, this presentation makes a case for (1) recontextualizing deliberative theory by situating its origins in the Eurocentric teleological account of progress, (2) reconceptualising deliberative norms and practices that foregrounds the legacies of colonialism, slavery, and dispossession; and (3) reimagining a global deliberative democracy that amplifies ‘alternative epistemologies’ and connected practices of deliberative contestation around the world. This presentation will demonstrate how these theoretical arguments are instantiated in the Global Assembly on Climate and Ecological Emergency – the world’s first global deliberative citizens’ assembly.

Nicole Curato is Professor of Political Sociology at the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance at the University of Canberra. She is the author of Democracy in a Time of Misery (2019, Oxford University Press), the co-editor of Research Methods in Deliberative Democracy (2022, Oxford University Press) and the Journal of Deliberative Democracy. Aside from academic outlets, her work has also been published in The New York Times, The Guardian, and the Brookings Institution, among others.

This event is a part of the Professorial Lecture Series organised by the Faculty of Business, Government and Law at the University of Canberra.

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