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SUMMARY:Alternatives to Incarceration in Latin America and the Caribbean
DESCRIPTION:Drug laws and the region’s untenable prison crisis are at the center of the drug policy debate in Latin America and the Caribbean. The incarceration of low-level drug offenders for exceptionally long sentences has left the region’s prisons bursting at the seams; the impact is not only felt by those incarcerated\, but also by their families and communities. Cutting edge research by the Colectivo de Estudios Drogas y Derecho (Research Consortium on Drugs and the Law\, CEDD) and the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) sheds new light on the problem and efforts to address it through alternatives to incarceration. \nThe latest investigation carried out by CEDD\, which brings together researchers from 9 Latin American countries\, shows that despite the lively debate taking place across the region\, the number of people incarcerated for drug offenses continues to grow. The SSRC’s Drugs\, Security and Democracy (DSD) Program is carrying out an investigation on drug courts in Latin America and the Caribbean. The research to date offers an analysis and critique of drug courts as a public policy option that is increasingly under consideration by Latin American and Caribbean countries\, and the lessons to be learned from the U.S. experience. The session will conclude with a discussion of other alternatives to incarceration\, including measures taken prior to the initiation of a criminal proceeding.
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/alternatives-to-incarceration-in-latin-america-and-the-caribbean-2/
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SUMMARY:Lineages of the People: Embedded and transregional histories of contemporary populism
DESCRIPTION:Alte Mensa\, Wilhelmsplatz 1\, University of Göttingen\, Germany\nhttps://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/lineages-of-the-people-embedded-and-transregional-histories-of-contemporary-populism/565338.html\n\n  \nOrganizers\nSrirupa Roy\, Paula Chakravartty\, Gianpaolo Baiocchi \nInstitutions\nUniversity of Göttingen (Centre for Modern Indian Studies & Global and Transregional Studies Platform)\nSocial Science Research Council\, New York (InterAsia Program)\nNew York University (Urban Democracy Lab) \nOverview\nThe US presidential elections of November 2016 have shaken the enduring myth of American exceptionalism. For many international observers\, the surprise and shock of Donald Trump’s electoral victory and the ascendancy of populist politics have occasioned a strong sense of political déjà-vu. The Trump victory seems to fit well into a wider global series. India\, Turkey\, Indonesia\, Thailand\, the Philippines\, China under Xi Jinping\, Russia under Putin\, Egypt under Sisi: the populist style of politics is clearly the new commonsense in much of our world. \nThis international workshop explores the causes and the democratic consequences of this contemporary populist zeitgeist (Mudde 2004). We are specifically interested in developing embedded histories of populist politics that go beyond the “shock and exception” mode of analysis to examine how contemporary populisms build on\, refract\, and contest earlier projects of people-making and other\, non-populist notions of the people. What is the relationship between racial\, ethnic\, religious\, and class-based projects of boundary-making\, and the populist politics of “frontier-making” (Laclau 2006)? What are the social\, political\, and cultural repertoires that the populist “moral monopoly claim” of being the only representative of the “true people” (Müller 2016) draws upon? How do contemporary ideas of the people-versus-elites divide resonate with earlier\, equally Manichean binaries of the war on terror\, Cold War\, or colonialism? Did the phenomena of technocratic politics\, judicialized politics and other forms of non-electoral politics pave the way for the contemporary rise of populist outsiders? How have the legacies of economic reform that unfolded across much of the global South in the 1990s shaped the populist imaginaries of political reform in these regions two decades later? What exactly is the relationship between “truth” and “post-truth” – what are the political and institutional continuities between “fake news” and the media logics and news values of commercial\, mainstream media? \nWe will address these questions from a transregional perspective that widens the usual Euro-American terrain of populism scholarship to include Asia and the Middle East. The point is not to update the Fukuyama thesis of global convergence by asserting that all political roads must lead to populism and that a universal\, one-size-fits-all theory of populism is at hand. Nor is it to reverse modernization teleology and assert that America’s present is India’s (or Turkey’s) past; that the answer to the question of “why Trump?” can be found in Modi’s or Erdogan’s rise. Instead\, the relocation of the populism debate outside Europe and America can bring us to formulate the question of populist politics in new ways\, and move us from choice-centric and electoralist discussions of the “populist vote” to a consideration of the organizational contexts\, quotidian rhythms\, and historical pathways that shape populist political agency. \nParticipants\nSinem Adar\, University of Göttingen\nWalter Armbrust\, University of Oxford\nGianpaolo Baiocchi\, New York University\nAnuj Bhuwania\, South Asian University\nPaula Chakravartty\, New York University\nRiccardo Chesta\, European University Institute\nGholam Khiabany\, Goldsmiths College Cedric de Leon\, Tufts University\nManali Desai\, University of Cambridge\nDenise Ferreira da Silva\, Univ. of British Columbia\nGhassan Hage\, University of Melbourne\nYoav Halperin\, New York University\nRan Hirschl\, University of Göttingen\nSrirupa Roy\, University of Göttingen\nAradhana Sharma\, Wesleyan College\nOlle Törnquist\, University of Oslo\nCihan Tugal\, University of California-Berkeley\nGulay Türkmen\, University of Göttingen\nGabriel Vommaro\, National University of General Sarmiento\, Argentina \nChairs/discussants\nRupa Viswanath\, Dominic Sachsenmeier\, Matthias Koenig\, Andreas Busch\, Srirupa Roy: University of Göttingen\nPaula Chakravartty\, Gianpaolo Baiocchi: NYU\nFor more information\, contact:\nbirgit.priemer@cemis.uni-goettingen.de
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/lineages-of-the-people-embedded-and-transregional-histories-of-contemporary-populism/
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