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Workshop

Political Legitimation in Times of Transformation

Manchester/Online, 10-11 September 2020

Thursday 10th September

11:30 – 12:00 – Welcome and Introductions

12:00 – 13:30 – Daniel Hausknost (WU Vienna): “Opacity and Transparency: A Constructivist Approach to Understanding Political Legitimacy” Discussant: Alejandro Pelfini

14:00 – 15:30 – Ugur Aytac (Amsterdam) & Paul Raekstad (Edinburgh): “Shifting the Focus: A Transformative Conception of Political Legitimacy”, Discussant: Eric Fabri

16:00 – 17:30 – Eric Fabri(Brussels/Oxford): “What does radical democracy imply for property rights?” Discussant: Adrián Beling

Friday 11th September

11.00 – 12.30 – Adrián Beling (FLACSO Argentina): “Circular politics. Politicizing the cultural performativity of politics” Discussant: Marit Hammond

13.00 – 14.30 – Marit Hammond (Keele): “A Culture of Deliberation: Experiments in Performance and a New Sustainability Politics” Discussant: Ugur Aytac

15:00 – 16:30 – Alejandro Pelfini (FLACSO Argentina): “Locked into the patterns of extractivism: new legitimation strategies of the extractivist-informational capitalism in South America” Discussant: Daniel Hausknost

16:30-17:00 – Concluding Discussion; Closing

CONTACT

The workshop is part of this year’s Manchester Centre for Political Theory #MANCEPT workshop series. This online session convened by CUSP researchers Daniel Hausknost (Vienna University of Economics and Business): daniel.hausknost@wu.ac.at, and Marit Hammond (Keele University): m.hammond@keele.ac.uk.

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