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Engaged research and citizenship at the nexus of the local and the global, of practice and theory.
Democratic Multiplicity
Edited Volume
University of Cambridge Press | August 2022
Edited by:
James Tully, Keith Cherry, Fonna Forman, Jeanne Morefield, Joshua Nichols, Pablo Ouziel, David Owen and Oliver Schmidtke.
CTI is proud to announce the publication of Democratic Multiplicity. This edited volume brings together an interdisciplinary and intergenerational team of scholars to discuss a variety of ways of thinking about, enacting and practicing democracy. Rather than presenting a typology of discreet forms of democracy, however, the volume argues that diverse democratic traditions coexist in the same social spaces, shaping one another in complex ways. As a result, traditional, state-based democratic institutions must be re-understood as only one small part of the democratic picture, and must be theorized alongside and in interaction with heterodox democratic traditions.
Contributors:
James Tully, Simon Laden, David Owen, Lasse Thomassen, Oliver Schmidtke, Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Chantal Mouffe, Pablo Ouziel, Jeanne Morefield, Fonna Forman, Rebeccah Nelems, Robin Celikates, Joshua Nichols, Stacie Swain, Phil Henderson, Jeremy Webber, David Held, Antje Wiener, Keith Cherry
COVIDA Student Contribution
A crisis at the heart of the Union: Warsaw, Brussels and the Rule of Law
An article by Francis Javier Dichupa
COVIDA COLLECTIVE / University of Victoria
November 2021
The COVIDA Collective is a team of emerging undergraduate scholars working under CTI mentorship to offer fresh analyses of contemporary global issues. This COVIDA student blog post explores the current conflict between the Polish Constitutional Tribunal and the European Union, dissecting the stakes for both players, and assessing how the rise of authoritarian politics within EU member states is challenging the democratic character of the European integration project.
British Columbia Office of Human Rights Commissioner & the Cedar Trees Institute
Since the spring of 2020, the Cedar Trees Institute has been in dialogue with the BC Office of the Human Rights Commissioner (BCOHRC), working to collectively envision more community-centered, relational, and decolonizing approaches to Human Rights Assessments (HRA’s).
This dialogue continues to bear fruit, and we are proud to announce that two of our COVIDA undergraduate students have been hired to conduct further research with BCOHRC.
In addition, CTI members Rebeccah Nelems, Pablo Ouziel and Keith Cherry were invited to co-present CTI’s work on relational and decolonizing HRA’s to the University of Alberta’s conference The Charter at 40: From Isolation to Inclusion: Navigating the Post-COVID World.
Building on this work, Nelems, Ouziel and Cherry are currently developing a paper for the Review of Constitutional Studies, published by the Center for Constitutional Studies. The paper aims to further explore the tension between the liberatory aspirations of human rights codes and their ongoing role in processes of colonization, dispossession, and imperialism. We believe that taking this tension seriously can inform how contemporary human rights organizations conceptualize, operationalize, and measure human rights moving forward.