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GUEST:
John Keane

HOST:
Eloy Viera Cañive


Synopsis:

From the arisal of a civil society to its concepts, also in totalitarian contexts, in this conversation between an Australian expert and Cuban lawyer, in simultaneous translation into Spanish, Keane talks about the past, but also about hope, and the future.

Bio:

John Keane is professor of Politics at the University of Sydney and the WZB (Berlin). He is recognized worldwide for his creative thinking about democracy, and is the author of a series of important books, including The Life and Death of Democracy (Simon & Schuster, 2009), When Trees Fall, Monkeys Scatter (2017) and The New Despotism (Harvard University Press, 2020). His co-authored book To Kill A Democracy: India’s Passage to Despotism (Oxford University Press) is forthcoming next month. He was nominated for the Premio Balzan 2021 and the Premio Holberg for his outstanding global contributions to human sciences.

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Approximations to Concepts of Civil Society

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