Global Crisis, New Mobilizations, and the Fate of Democracy: a reconsideration of notions from a world-systems perspective on post-socialism

Global Crisis, New Mobilizations, and the Fate of Democracy: a reconsideration of notions from a world-systems perspective on post-socialism

A discussion with  Agnes Gagyi 

Monday December 8

From 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.

Sociology Lounge

 

Dec. 8 event

 

New ‘global’ mobilizations linked to the economic crisis are frequently interpreted in the framework of a decline of representative democracy, and the consequent threats and promises of populism and participation. That framework tends to brace together mobilizations in different positions in global hierarchies. Agnes Gagyi’s, coming from a world systems perspective, is that this gesture implies an universalization of the democratic experience of core countries, and  hides rather than illuminates the global social dynamics connected to the movements. To support that argument, Gagyi will offer a non-core perspective on democratization and recent movements for democracy, from post-socialist Eastern Europe.

 Agnes Gagyi is a social movements researcher with a background in social anthropology and political economy. She writes on Eastern European politics and social movements in a long-term global historical perspective, inspired by world-systems analysis. She received her PhD in 2011 from the University of Pécs, is Adjunct Professor at the Eszterházy Károly College, Eger. She is presently carries out post-doctoral research at George Mason University, supported by a Fulbright grant, entitled “The Transnational History of Contemporary Hungarian Politics and Social Movements”.

 

This event is cosponsored by the Center for Place, Culture and Politics and the Department of Anthropology, Graduate Center, CUNY, and LeftEast (http://www.criticatac.ro/lefteast/)

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