'Democratic Entanglements Across Spacetime' with Dr Edda Sant and Dr Jonas Thiel, 12 February 2025
- piersvonberg
- Feb 3
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We are delighted to host Dr Edda Sant (University of Manchester, U.K.) and Dr Jonas Thiel (Manchester Metropolitan University, U.K.) to discuss their recent paper 'Democracy as intra-action: Some educational implications when we diffract John Dewey’s, Karen Barad’s and Ernesto Laclau’s work', Educational Philosophy and Theory (2024).
Their abstract:
This paper comprises two parts. In part 1, we will revisit our recent 2024 article in Educational Philosophy and Theory. Here, we explored democracy as intra-action. Following the structure of our article, we will begin by reexamining Dewey’s famous sentence that ‘democracy is more than a form of government; it is primarily a mode of associated living’. We then diffract this sentence through Laclau’s conflictual understanding of democracy and Barad’s agential realist notion of intra-action. Last, we revisit our three suggested educational consequences of these diffractions: (a) “democracy and education could be understood as emerging together involving entanglements that cut across micro-macro levels of scale”; (b) “democratic processes always contain exclusions carrying risks for educators” and (c) “‘living’ needs to trouble the well-worn human/non-human binary and consider wider natural cultural phenomena”. This builds the basis of Part 2. Here, we tentatively outline further posthuman material-discursive developments and their implications for democracy and democratic education.
Wednesday 12 February, 1pm GMT
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