Democracy in Crisis?

1 credits · Undergraduate

Is democracy in crisis and does it have a future? How do we make sense of the rise of democratically elected but authoritarian figures like Trump, Putin, Modi, Bolsanaro? Are capitalism and social media the problem or the solution to failing democracies? Can democracy ever shed its racist, sexist, propertied and colonial foundations? This class aims to help you deepen these questions, and generate new ones.