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Inaugural Lecture Series - Upcoming Lectures

Not in my Name: representation and its discontents

Date: Thursday 5th November 2009
Time: Refreshments 5:30pm, Lecture 6:00 to 7:30pm
Location: Woolley Theatre N395, Woolley Building.
Cost: no charge

Is 'representative democracy' an oxymoron? If we believe in governing ourselves, why do we let others govern for us or on our behalf? What are the alternatives to being represented of being 'present' in the form of our absence? In this talk Simon Tormey examines the notion of democracy 'after' representation. What would it look like? How might it work? What examples can we find for thinking about 'post-democracy'? Looking at examples from social movements, indigenous resistances and developments in
mobilisation and activism, he offers a novel thinking through of the
possibilities and potentialities of a democracy contra l'etat.

Simon Tormey was appointed Professor and Head of the School of Social and Political Sciences in the Faculty of Arts in February 2009. Prior to his appointment he was Head of the School of Politics and IR at the University of Nottingham, UK. He was also foundation Director of the Centre for Social and Global Justice at Nottingham which he helped create in 2005. He is the author of numerous books and articles, including most recently Anti-Capitalism: A Beginner¹s Guide and Key Thinkers from Post-Marxism to Critical Theory. He is an editor of the journal Contemporary Political Theory and of a Manchester UP monograph series.

He is married to Veronique and they have three children. He is keen cyclist (cycling from Lindfield daily), wine buff and footy fan and much to the ire of colleagues chose Manly-Warringah to support as his closest club.

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