S1E4: Can Lib­er­al Democ­ra­cies Right the Wrongs of Racial and Gen­der Injustices?

Democracy in Question, Podcast
26. November 2020
23:41 min listen

We have recent­ly seen mil­lions of peo­ple tak­ing to the streets to protest social, polit­i­cal and envi­ron­men­tal injus­tices. Even a glob­al pan­dem­ic couldn’t stop pro­test­ers across the world from show­ing their sup­port to the Black Lives Mat­ter move­ment. In this episode, we’re joined by Pro­fes­sor Nan­cy Fras­er (The New School) and ask: can lib­er­al democ­ra­cy pro­vide the dis­trib­u­tive jus­tice cit­i­zens seem to crave?

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Shalini Randeria

Shalini Randeria is Rector and President of the Central European University (Vienna/Budapest). Before, she was Professor of Social Anthropology and Sociology at the Graduate Institute Geneva, and Rector of the Institute of Human Sciences (IWM) in Vienna from 2014 to 2021. She has published widely on the anthropology of globalisation, law, the state and social movements. Her empirical research on India also addresses issues of post-coloniality and multiple modernities.

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