Tag: Democracy

  • 96 – Digital Cities and Democracy

    96 – Digital Cities and Democracy

    In this episode Ross Beveridge, co-founder of our Podcast, and guests discuss the topic of digital cities and democracy.Digitalisation is transforming cities, urbanization and urban life – but how is it changing urban politics?  What issues of justice and democracy are at stake in the advance of digital technologies?  What are the power implications of…

  • 84 – How Cities Can Transform Democracy

    84 – How Cities Can Transform Democracy

    Rediscovering Urban Politics  This talk by Ross Beveridge and Philippe Koch provides a novel way of thinking about the relationship between democracy and the urban based on two main arguments. First, across the globe claims for and forms of urban collective self-rule signal that the city retains democratic significance in a very specific sense: as…

  • Episode 73 – The Far Right and the City

    Episode 73 – The Far Right and the City

    Tune in for our new episode on the far-right and the city! In this discussion, members of the Terra-R (Territorialisations of the Radical Right) network examine the developments of the radical right in Germany beyond simplistic urban-rural and East-West attributions, and outline the current and future challenges for academia and civil society alike. The aim…

  • Episode 66 – Book Review Roundtable: How Cities Can Transform Democracy

    Episode 66 – Book Review Roundtable: How Cities Can Transform Democracy

    We live in an urban age. It is well known that urbanization is changing landscapes, built environments, social infrastructures and everyday lives across the globe. But urbanization is also changing the ways we understand and practise politics. What implications does this have for democracy? This incisive book argues that urbanization undermines the established certainties of…