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Speaker
Hans Asenbaum, University of Canberra
Chair
Melisa Ross, University of Bremen
In this instalment of our House Series, our 2022 Rising Star Award winner Hans Asenbaum discusses how societal judgments limit freedom of expression in democratic engagement – and explores the role of anonymity in countering this issue.
When we participate in political debates or protests, we are judged by how we look, which clothes we wear, by our skin colour, gender and body language. This results in exclusions and limits our freedom of expression.
In this lecture, our 2022 Rising Star Award winner Hans Asenbaum suggests the politics of becoming, which explores disidentification as a radical democratic approach to counter this issue by embracing anonymity and interrupting everyday identity assemblages.
FREE to attend and open to all, the lecture brings together democratic, feminist, queer, anarchist, and new materialist assemblage theories to conceptualise the 'fugitive self' in democratic engagement, emphasising the role of digital communication in shaping and reassembling identities.
Introduced in 2020 as part of our 50th Anniversary celebrations, the Rising Star Award recognises exceptional PhD students and early career researchers. It serves as a platform for networking and skill development, bolstered by ECPR support.
The prize is awarded annually to an individual with a particularly promising future in the realm of politics and international relations. The recipient, affiliated with an ECPR Member institution, benefits from a year’s free access to a selection of our events. Meet our previous prize winners.
Hans Asenbaum is Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance at the University of Canberra. His research interests include radical democracy, queer and gender studies, digital politics, and participatory research methods. In 2022 he received the ECPR Rising Star Award.
Hans is the author of The Politics of Becoming: Anonymity and Democracy in the Digital Age (Oxford University Press, 2023) and co-editor of Research Methods in Deliberative Democracy (with Ercan, Curato and Mendonça, Oxford University Press, 2022). His work has been published in the American Political Science Review, New Media & Society, Politics & Gender, and the International Journal of Qualitative Methods.
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