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The Dark Sides: Illiberalism, Post-Truth, Resistance

Citizenship
Democracy
Democratisation
P505
Claudia Wiesner
Fulda University of Applied Sciences
Anna Björk
Demos Helsinki
Democracy and Social Contracts in Times of the Anthropocene Concepts, Challenges, Practices

Building: Faculty of International and Political Studies, Floor: 1, Room: 142

Thursday 16:15 - 18:00 CEST (10/09/2026)

Abstract

The panel will focus on the "dark sides" of social cohesion and social contracts and the ways both are contested. It will put an emphasis on illiberalism and post-truths, and the related strategies of resistance.

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