Antoni Aguiló

Antoni Aguiló is a political philosopher and professor at the Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, where he also works as a researcher for the Núcleo de Estudios sobre Democracia, Ciudadanía y Derecho (DECIDe) [Centre of Studies in Democracy, Citizenship and Rights]. His main fields of research and action include epistemologies of the South, political processes of participation, social theories and movements for anti-hegemonic democracy (particularly the 15M) and radical democracy. Aguiló is the co-coordinator of the “democratising democracy” area within “ALICE – Strange Mirrors, Unsuspected Lessons: Leading Europe to a new way of sharing the world experiences”, a project made possible by the European Research Council.

Demodiversity: the fight for other kinds of democracy

Demodiversity: the fight for other kinds of democracy

Strengthening demodiversity involves a twofold approach. First, one must denounce the limitations of liberal democracy, which has been exposed as an inefficient, opaque political system that perpetuates inequalities, bows to private interests and is largely sustained by corruption, conformism, fear and apathy.
Second, it is necessary to recover alternative democratic experiences discredited by the arrogant and flawed understanding of democracy that prevails throughout academia and society at large.