Democracy

What is algorithmic governmentality? What transformations are the tech revolution catalysing in society and politics? In this in-depth conversation, legal philosopher Antoinette Rouvroy questions the drive to rationalise all aspects of life through data and sets out possibilities for alternatives.

How can Extinction Rebellion move from insurrection to renewal?

After 40 years of neoliberalism tearing at the social fabric, what form will the 21st-century counter-movement take?

A Green New Deal is good, but an ecofeminist one is even better.

Time is running out, but political ecology has the answers. A different world, a good life for all.

Rather than insisting on external limits, environmentalists should call for society to make its own. The way forward is to organise an alternative project based on different view of the good life.

While the future of enlargement is unclear within the EU, in Ukraine the push to move closer to the EU and NATO has kept momentum.

What will the coming months and years bring for the Polish political scene?

Majoritarian systems always disenfranchise somebody. Instead, what politics should do empower people and communities to come to decisions as one.

Writing from Malta, Michele Kipiel argues that a democratic debate over what 5G technology is for and who controls it is both vital and urgent.