93-009 DIGITAL: Contemporary challenges of democratic political representation: in between theory and practice/Desafios contemporâneos da representação política: entre teoria e prática

Lehrende: Livia de Souza Lima

Veranstaltungsart: Seminar

Anzeige im Stundenplan: Contemp. challenges

Semesterwochenstunden: 2

Credits: 3,0

Unterrichtssprache: Englisch

Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl: - | 30

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[last-v02, v02-geo, m03, master-wb]
Die Angabe der Credits (3,0) bezieht sich auf die Anzahl der Leistungspunkte, wenn die Veranstaltung im WAHLBEREICH besucht wird.

Kommentare/ Inhalte:
In this seminar we will examine the theoretical debate about political representation in light of the classical and current discussions about the phenomena. In the first part of the seminar we will work with the concept of political representation and the different understandings of it in the literature. Followed to that, we will discuss the more recent debate about the phenomena and how it came to be understood as a bedrock of democracy rather than a contradiction to it. From this discussion on we will cover the later considerations about the possibilities of recovering the value of political representation to democratic arrangements and how the present social issues should be incorporated to the theories and studies of representative institutions and relationships.

Against the backdrop of social distinctions among criteria of race, gender and class, the seminar will focus particularly on the present challenges to democratic representation. Here for example we will debate contemporary pressing issues about political representation such as the presence of historically excluded groups from institutional decision-making arenas, consider and present some cases where representation and representativeness are being claimed by subaltern groups.

Learning Goals:

-understand the main theoretical approaches about political representation

-discuss the different normative patterns for democratic political representation

-apply the theoretical discussions to existing representative relationships

Languages:
English, Portuguese and Spanish depending on the group dynamics.
The seminar is multilingual and we specially encourage the participation of Portuguese and Spanish speakers in our meetings.

Idiomas:
O seminário será multilingual e nós encorajamos especialmente a participação de falantes de Português e Espanhol em nossos encontros.