Learning and practicing active democratic citizenship in the struggle against growing authoritarianism

Abstracts from the conference in which authors explore significant changes in policy, statecraft and patterns of mobilisation in relation to ALE. They return to the question of how neoliberalism relates to democracy and the practice of democratic citizenship, and open up the question of how to think about and respond to increasing authoritarianism. Authors also examine how neoliberalism relates to authoritarianism and consider how these phenomena might be usefully distinguished. The aim is to make a collective effort to find adequate terms for what has occurred in recent years and what is emerging from a period of rapid change in capitalism.