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Hans Asenbaum
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Senior research fellow @ Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance, Uni Canberra. He/him 🏳️‍🌈 Author of The Politics of Becoming. Open Access https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-politics-of-becoming-9780192858870?cc=us&lang=en&
Participatory democracy and participatory research share common principles but are often treated as separate domains. Our new paper brings them together.

🙏 @sbussu.bsky.social @oliverescobar.bsky.social scobar.bsky.social @clodaghharris.bsky.social

OA 👉 doi.org/10.1017/S175...
May 14, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Happy to see this in print! In Politics, I argue that democratic innovations can benefit from participatory, deliberative, agonistic, feminist & transformative theory. I develop 5 lessons for democratic innovations.

🔑 OA doi.org/10.1177/0263...

@deldemucan.bsky.social @politicsjournal.bsky.social
February 28, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Decolonizing Deliberative Democracy!

The brilliant @mendoncarf.bsky.social @margemufmg.bsky.social and I argue against decolonization as a box-ticking exercise. A decolonizing ethos needs to be situated at the heart of DD. We propose 6 moves.

OA copy here 👇
philpapers.org/archive/MEND...
January 16, 2025 at 10:31 AM
What an incredibly productive month! Thank you for your visit, @meritaina.bsky.social Including joint paper submission, project workshop, and more-than-human interactions! 🦘🤖

Looking forward to all our future collaborations! 🫶
November 21, 2024 at 5:43 AM
Which role does #KamalaHarris' identity as a Black woman play in the US presidential election? A surprisingly small one!

Read my new blog in @ecprtheloop.bsky.social

theloop.ecpr.eu/not-a-race-r...

#USElection2024 #Harris_Walz2024 #HarrisWalz2024
October 3, 2024 at 9:27 AM
CAN DELIBERATIVE DEMOCRACY BE DECOLONIZED?

This is such an important debate! Find out about the different takes on this question of Nicole Curato, Genevieve Fuji Johnson, Bonny Ibhawoh, Ricardo Mendonça & me, edited with Friedel Marquardt

www.delibdem.org/_files/ugd/2...
January 29, 2024 at 11:17 PM
New special issue in Democratic Theory with @meritaina.bsky.social

✨DEMOCRATIC SELF-TRANSFORMATIONS✨

Check out the brilliant contributions. It's open access!

www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journal...

@moyalloyd.bsky.social
November 10, 2023 at 8:03 AM
🆕 Democratic Transformations on ECPR's The Loop

Read this brilliant piece by Olimpia Burchiellaro

🏳️‍🌈 Capitalism is co-opting diversity!

💰⚖️ Identity struggles need to connect to questions of economic justice.

👉 theloop.ecpr.eu/how-capitali...
November 7, 2023 at 10:21 PM
Excited to launch this series at ECPR blog The Loop!

In the face of current crises, we need deep, structural Democratic Transformations!

But how do we get there? And what is our role as researchers?

Please, join the conversation! DM me.

Read 👉 theloop.ecpr.eu/identity-war...

@ecpr.bsky.social
November 2, 2023 at 8:28 AM
DON'T MISS THE KICKOFF of the Centre for Deliberative Democracy seminar series Identity, Democracy, and Self-Tansformation!

Tomorrow none other than Anne Phillips calls for the abolition of the legal status of gender.

🇬🇧 8am
🇩🇪 9am
🇦🇺 7pm

Sign up here www.canberra.edu.au/events/Home/...
October 30, 2023 at 7:15 AM