Connais-tu vraiment la démocratie ?

Le 20 juillet 1969, lors de la mission Apollo 11, les astronautes américains Neil Armstrong et Buzz Aldrin deviennent les premiers hommes à marcher sur la Lune. Après un long voyage dans l’espace, leur module lunaire se pose sur le sol lunaire. Armstrong descend le premier et pro ...  عرض المزيد

Marianne est un symbole inventé pendant la Révolution française pour représenter la liberté et la République. Elle porte un bonnet phrygien, signe des anciens esclaves libérés, et incarne les valeurs de liberté, d’égalité et de fraternité. On trouve son buste dans les mairies, su ...  عرض المزيد

Elections loom large in our everyday understanding of democracy. Yet we also acknowledge that our familiar electoral apparatus is questionable from a democratic point of view. Very few citizens have access to the kinds of resources that could enable them to stand for election; co ...  عرض المزيد

How can everyday people help foster and protect democracy? Detailing her work fighting for people power as an activist in Madagascar, Ketakandriana Rafitoson discusses how citizen assemblies — meetings where ordinary citizens get educated about democracy — empower communities ...

“Remember Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes exhausts and [destroys] itself. . .It is in vain to Say that Democracy is … less proud, less selfish, less ambitious or less avaricious than Aristocracy or Monarchy. It is not true in Fact and no where appears in history. Those ...  عرض المزيد

Cultivating Democracy: Politics and Citizenship in Agrarian India (Oxford UP, 2021) by Dr. Mukulika Banerjee offers a groundbreaking rethinking of democracy, moving beyond its institutional frameworks to focus on its lived, everyday dimensions. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in ...  عرض المزيد