Social Movements and the Crisis of Democracy: A roundtable discussion of Democracy Reloaded

  • 6 March 2020
  • 3.30pm-5.30pm

A roundtable event discussing the crisis of democracy, social movements, the post-political, and Cristina Flesher Fominaya鈥檚 forthcoming book Democracy Reloaded: Inside Spain鈥檚 Political Laboratory from 15-M to Podemos (Oxford University Press 2020).

Please see speaker details below.

Contact and booking details

Name
Cristina Flesher Fominaya
Email address
c.f.fominaya@lboro.ac.uk
Booking required?
No
Simon Tormey

With the participation of:

, Professor of Politics and Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Law, University of Bristol. Professor Tormey works on political theory, European politics, social critique and continental thought. Recent books are The End of Representative Politics (Polity, 2015), The Refiguring of Democracy (Routledge, 2017), and Populism (Oneworld, 2019). His current research concerns the nature of the crisis of democratic societies, the rise of populist and outsider movements and parties, and the impact of ICT and new social media on participation and mobilisation.‌

Ramon A. Feenstra

, Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Sociology at the Universitat Jaume I of Castellón (Spain). He works on democracy theory and communication ethics and has published the following books: y (Rowman and Littlefield, 2019),  (co-authored with Simon Tormey, Andreu Casero and John Keane, Routledge, 2017), and the  (2019).

Ruth Kinna

Chaired by Ruth Kinna, (POLIS)Professor Kinna is a political theorist and historian of ideas with research interests in anarchism, nineteenth and early twentieth-century socialist thought, utopianism and contemporary radicalism. Her book was published in 2000 by University of Wales press; she has since published  (Oneworld, 2005/2009), (University of Edinburgh, 2016) and  (Pelican, 2019). 

Cristina Flesher Fominaya


Cristina Flesher Fominaya, is Excellence 100 Reader in Social Politics and Media (POLIS). She publishes widely on European and global social movements, hybrid parties, digital politics and media, collective identity, democracy, autonomy, and political participation, recent books include   (2nd Edition) (Red Globe 2020  (2018), and  (2018).