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Event 24
Erica Benner in conversation with Geoffroy Gerard
Is Democracy in danger?
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Fundación Cajasol - Sala Machado
Political debates in many countries focus on the immense polarization and the necessary fight against populisms that seek to undermine democracy. Contributing to this are the outcomes of certain elections, climate change, and advances in artificial intelligence, which leave us with a sense of helplessness. Therefore, it is important to reconsider what tools those defending true democracy —one that grants representation and rights to all, without exclusion— might have.
In this event Erica Benner will explain why she believes that the fight against autocracy must involve mobilizing people, but that there is no need to frighten them with visions of dark characters. She argues, “We need to counterattack by thinking more creatively. We must focus on ordinary people and engage them, regardless of their position, rather than only thinking of those already polarized.”
She was born in Tokyo and grew up both in Japan and the United Kingdom. She is a political philosopher who has held academic positions at St Antony’s College at Oxford, the London School of Economics, and Yale University. She is the author of books such as Be Like the Fox: Machiavelli’s Lifelong Quest for Freedom, nominated for Book of the Year by The Guardian. Her latest work is Adventures in Democracy: The Turbulent World of Popular Power. She is president of the European Society for the History of Political Thought.
Benner will be in conversation at the event with Geoffroy Gérard, general manager of the IE Foundation.
Event in English with simultaneous interpretation into Spanish