The politics of restlessness – Georg Diez interviews CHRISTIAN VOLK
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How does systemic change and protest work in a democracy in which protest has for some time now mainly been voiced by anti-democratic forces? How much unrest does a democracy need in order to change? And how can politics absorb the contradictory energies circulating in society and utilise them constructively?
In an interview with journalist Georg Diez, political scientist Christian Volk answersquestions about political resistance and civil disobedience beyond individual and populist sensitivities.
How much nervousness can democracy tolerate? Where do these tensions come from? How is our concept of democracy currently changing? Which forms of democracy do we need to preserve, which do we need to unlearn and relearn? And where will we be in five years’ time?
The journalist and author Georg Diez will be talking to SCRIPTS researchers on three evenings about the state and future of ‘nervous democracy’: about the transformation shock of democracy after 1989, about the tension between hysteria and reason using the example of the USA and about the politics of unrest, protest and revolt as essential elements of a living democracy.
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Christian Volk is a Professor of Political Science at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin and a Principal Investigator at the Cluster of Excellence Contestations of the Liberal Script (SCRIPTS). His research focuses on democracy, social theory, constitutional and critical state theory. He also conducts intensive research on forms of political protest and civil disobedience.
Georg Diez is an author, journalist, and curator who has worked as a cultural critic and political editor for prominent German media outlets, including Spiegel Online, Süddeutsche Zeitung, and Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung. His books tackle the societal tensions and the shift to the right, technology and opportunities for democracy. Diez was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard, served as editor-in-chief at The New Institute, and curated the exhibition Survival on the 21st Century. He is currently a fellow at ProjectTogether and the Max Planck Society, where he focuses on issues of democratic innovation.
