Venia Legendid ühiskonnateaduste instituudis

06.11.2017 kell 03.00 - 06.30

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13.00-13.45 - Avaliku poliitika dotsendi kandidaat Triin Lauri. "Education in political science – neglected field?"
13.45-14.30 - Riigiteooria professori kandidaat Liisi Keedus. "Progress and Political Poetics"
14.30-15.15 - Riigiteooria professori kandidaat Leif Kalev. "Statehood in the era of crises of democracy and globalisation"
15.30-16.15 - Võrdleva poliitika dotsendi kandidaat Tõnis Saarts. "Comparative party system analysis in the new European democracies - integrating the sociological approach with the mainstream."
                      
Leif Kalev "Statehood in the era of crises of democracy and globalisation". The presentation summarises the results from the past five years. Based on research and publications I first discuss the transformation of critical perspectives on statehood and citizenship toward multidimensional approaches, relating these also to the current balances of globalisation and securitisation. Based on the experience in teaching and as high-raking public servant I subsequently discuss some aspects in the utilisation of politics and governance related knowledge in novel contexts and with a positive perspective, linked to the transformation of contemporary liberal democratic states.

Liisi Keedus "Progress and Political Poetics". Progressivism has never been systematically defined political concept, yet it continues to dominate the narrative schemes underlying contemporary European institutional structures and political mentalities. Explicitly or implicitly, it constitutes the political poetics of democratization, European integration, globalization and emancipatory movements.  In the past decade, however, Europe’s present – the reality of an enduring and agonizing crisis – has tuned the tension between our tenaciously progressivist political imagination and the newly disillusioned political experience close to the point of exhaustion. Europe has again ceased to be a continent of peace, political stability has collapsed into a struggle to maintain the status quo, dreams of material abundance into an explosion of social inequalities, commitment to freedom into triumphs of populist radicalisms. In this time of a radical need for redefinition of Europe’s self-identity, progressivist public discourse is failing to deliver its elusive promise – and this lecture aims to open the debate for an alternative political poetics.

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