Emergency Politics – Jonathan White (Lecture Series on the Disruptive Condition)
Lecture
03. May
From economics to international security, pandemics to climate change, we live in an age of emergency politics.
Not only do governments make policy in the name of managing urgent threats, but opponents criticise them for missing the real threats and fighting the wrong emergency. This presentation will consider some of the distinctive problems this creates for democracy, whether emergency politics should be embraced by progressives nonetheless, and how democracy might adapt to these demanding conditions.
- Wednesday, 3 May
- 6 pm
- Room: C 40.704
Jonathan White is Professor of Politics at the London School of Economics. He has held visiting positions at the Berlin Institute of Advanced Studies, Harvard, Stanford, the Humboldt University, Hertie School, Sciences Po Paris, and the Australian National University. Books include Politics of Last Resort: Governing by Emergency in the European Union (Oxford University Press, 2019), The Meaning of Partisanship (with Lea Ypi, Oxford University Press, 2016), and Political Allegiance after European Integration (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011). He was awarded the 2017 British Academy Brian Barry Prize for Excellence in Political Science.
This event is organised by the research initiative "The Disruptive Condition" of the Center for Cultural Studies (CCS). The event will be held in English.
