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It's a crime many thought was a relic of decades past. But South Australian police have charged a man … with sacrilege.In an election campaign dominated by cost-of-living pressures, energy supplies, and an assertive China, is there any room for religion as a political issue?Paying extra on a loan is also known as usury. It's an ancient concept with Biblical roots.GUESTS:Professor JOSHUA ROOSE of the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation.Dr RENAE BARKER is a senior lecturer specialising in law and religion at the University of Western Australia.PETER KURTI of the Centre for Independent Studies. His paper, co-authored with Ian Harper is Interest, Usury and the Common Good.

In an election campaign dominated by cost-of-living pressures, energy supplies, and an assertive China, is there any room for religion as a political issue?GUEST:Professor JOSHUA ROOSE of the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation. 

Featuring:Greg Barton, Professor of Global Islamic Politics, Alfred Deakin Institute, Deakin UniversityLorraine Tan, Morningstar Director of Asia Equity ResearchApple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bloomberg-daybreak-asia/id1663863437Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0Ccfge70zthAgVfm0NVw1bTuneIn: https://tunein.com/podcasts/Asian-Talk/Bloomberg-Daybreak-Asia-Edition-p247557/?lang=es-esSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Shadi Rouhshahbaz (she/her) is an Associate Research Fellow at The Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation (ADI). She is a PhD student at the University of Melbourne and holds a Double-Joint Master's degree in International Development - Migration and Mediation from the Ca Foscari University of Venice and Paul Valery University, Montpellier 3. Shadi has worked with UN Women HQ, UNICEF and the United Network of Young Peacebuilders. Her research focuses on the intersections of foresight studies, youth, gender, peace and security, the Middle East and multilateral institutions. Shadi is committed to conducting research that influences policy by bridging the gaps between the lived experience of individuals and the required developments of systems and academia. We are grateful she shared her time with Trailblazer host Poppy Bell.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has had a busy week. From steering the country through an upgraded terror threat, to announcing a pay win for Early Childhood educators, there's a lot to catch up on in Australian politics.  Today the PM sits down with Claire Murphy for an exclusive interview to debrief the week and explain how new changes will make childcare affordable for all.  THE END BITS  Subscribe to Mamamia Want to try MOVE by Mamamia?Click here to start a seven-day free trial of our exercise app. GET IN TOUCH Share your story, feedback, or dilemma! Send us a voice note or email us at podcast@mamamia.com.au and one of our Podcast Producers will come back to you ASAP. CONTACT US Got a topic you'd like us to cover? Send us an email at thequicky@mamamia.com.au CREDITS Host: Claire Murphy  With thanks to:  Prime Minister Anthony Albanese  Professor Greg Barton, Chair in Global Islamic Politics, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation  Producer: Claire Murphy  Senior Producer: Taylah StranoAudio Producer: Thom LionBecome a Mamamia subscriber: https://www.mamamia.com.au/subscribeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

John MacKenzie chats with Professor Greg Barton, International Security Expert and Chair of Global Islamic Politics at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, about Defence Minister Richard Marles' meeting with China. Minister Marles spoke with Wei Fenghe, his Chinese counterpart, in Cambodia as a part of the ASEAN meeting to discuss the role of the Australian and Chinese military in the Asian-Pacific area. Professor Barton provided valuable insight into the matter.

Half of all Australians were born overseas or have a parent who was born overseas, and Australia is home to more than 250 ancestries and 350 languages. The new Labor government has invoked Australia's multiculturalism as a part of our national identity in its recent engagement with the region. But what is the role of Australia's multiculturalism in foreign policy? Are diversity and diasporas a source of soft power and engagement? Our panel examined how Australia's multiculturalism can inform foreign policymaking chaired by Dr Jennifer Hsu, Research Fellow in the Lowy Institute's Public Opinion and Foreign Policy Program. Panel guests include: Dr Melissa Phillips is a Lecturer in Humanitarian and Development Studies in the School of Social Sciences at Western Sydney University. She has previously worked for the United Nations and international NGOs in South Sudan, North Africa, and the Middle East, and recently co-edited Understanding Diaspora Development: Lessons from Australia and the Pacific. Jason Chai is the Director of Market Access and Government Affairs for Cochlear Asia-Pacific. He is a former Australian diplomat and has worked for the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, as well as at senior government levels, including as a Chief of Staff to a Victorian Minister of Trade and Investment. Alfred Deakin Professor Fethi Mansouri holds a research chair in Migration and Intercultural Studies and the UNESCO Chair for comparative research on cultural diversity and social justice. He is the founding Director of the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation at Deakin University. He is the editor of the Journal of Intercultural Studies and since 2010 has served as an expert adviser to the United Nations on cultural diversity and intercultural relations. Recorded on 10 Aug 2022

#genetics #genomeediting #crispr #mutants Dr. Jiankui He created the world's 1st genetically modified twins, lulu & nana, CRISPR the gene-editing tool allows for precise editing of the DNA, while the world debates on the pros & cons of genetic editing there are bio-hackers that are experimenting on themselves as well as working on creating genetically modified animals & food. Eben Kirksey is an anthropologist, writer, and storyteller. He is a politically savvy activist who occasionally engages in artistic experiments, Eben attended the University of Oxford as a British Marshall Scholar and earned his Ph.D. from the University of California at Santa Cruz. Currently, he is Associate Professor (Research) at Alfred Deakin Institute in Melbourne, Australia. He is the author of various books including The Mutant Project (2020), a book that follows some of the world's first genetically modified people, https://eben-kirksey.space http://ebenkirksey.blogspot.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/eben-kirksey-917b61165 https://twitter.com/eben_kirksey https://www.deakin.edu.au/about-deakin/people/eben-kirksey Click the link below to buy- "The Mutant Project" https://www.amazon.in/Mutant-Project-Inside-Global-Genetically/dp/1250265355

Cuckoo smurfing — what it is, how to spot it, how to make sure it doesn't happen to you. An Australian philanthropic foundation marks 135 years of helping people in need. What has changed in that time? Plus, Australian researchers find that business leaders are more optimistic about their company's profit outlook when the sun is shiningGuests:Marcus Erikson, Director of Intelligence, AUSTRACStacey Thomas CEO, The Wyatt TrustAmanuel Elias, Alfred Deakin Institute, Deakin University

Cuckoo smurfing — what it is, how to spot it, how to make sure it doesn't happen to you. An Australian philanthropic foundation marks 135 years of helping people in need. What has changed in that time? Plus, Australian researchers find that business leaders are more optimistic about their company's profit outlook when the sun is shining Guests: Marcus Erikson, Director of Intelligence, AUSTRAC Stacey Thomas CEO, The Wyatt Trust Amanuel Elias, Alfred Deakin Institute, Deakin University

In this week's episode, Michael chats with Will Smith, from Deakin University in Melbourne, about his recent book project, Mountains of Blame (link), which explores the impact of environmental governance and climate change on the Philippine island of Palawan.  Research and lecture summary: 01:50 Advice for researchers and recommendations: 18:00 Will Smith's Top Recommendations: Mao's Bestiary by Liz Chee (link) The Sovereign Trickster by Vincent Rafael (link)

Today I welcome medical anthropologist Emma Kowal, author of Trapped in the Gap: Doing Good in Indigenous Australia. Emma Kowal is Professor of Anthropology at the Alfred Deakin Institute at Deakin University. She is a cultural and medical anthropologist who previously worked as a medical doctor and public health researcher in Indigenous health. Her research interests lie at the intersection of STS and Indigenous studies and have recently focused on the many iterations and resonances of ‘Indigenous DNA'. She has authored over 100 publications including the monograph Trapped in the Gap: Doing Good in Indigenous Australia and the collection Cryopolitics: Frozen Life in a Melting World. Her current book project is entitled Haunting Biology: Science and Indigeneity in Australia.  

In this episode, Rebecca Megson-Smith talks to Eben Kirksey, American anthropologist and Associate Professor at Alfred Deakin Institute in Melbourne, Australia. Rebecca and Eben discuss his latest book 'The Mutant Project: Inside the Global Race to Genetically Modify Humans', the work of Dr. Jiankui He, who created the first genetically modified babies, and the moral dilemmas this work has since raised, with a particular focus on the values behind gene-editing and the implications for society. Intro music: Cold by yoitrax | @yoitrax Music promoted by www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US

In the sixteenth episode of Doing Disasters Differently: The Podcast, hosted by corporate2community founder and disaster resilience specialist Renae Hanvin, she will be chatting to Mark Duckworth, Senior Research Fellow at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation at Deakin University working in the Centre for Resilient and Inclusive Societies (CRIS).

COVID disaster payments for Melbourne residents who are unable to work will be part of a new national scheme available to other states if lockdowns last for more than a week. The latest blow to Victoria's economy follows GDP figures which show that Australia's economy has bounced back from the pandemic recession. Plus, the economic costs of racism and Australian researchers find that business leaders are more optimistic about their company's profit outlook when the sun is shining - investors might want to check the weather forecast before making financial decisions.Guests:Danielle Wood, CEO, Grattan InstituteAssociate Professor Edward Podolski, Deakin University Business SchoolAmanuel Elias, Alfred Deakin Institute, Deakin University

Last week eight innocent people were shot dead in Atlanta, six of whom were women from Asian backgrounds, allegedly killed by a young white man.  Local police were keen to shut down any suggestions that the attack was racially motivated, but many Asian people say this is just another example of systemic racism that has accelerated during the pandemic. The Quicky investigates whether hideous stereotypes may have led to this assault, and how a long history of crude assumptions and misconceptions about Asian women continues to cause serious harm. Subscribe to The Quicky at... https://mamamia.com.au/the-quicky/ CREDITS  Host/Producer: Claire Murphy Executive Producer: Siobhán Moran-McFarlane Audio Producer: Ian Camilleri Guests: Patricia Park - Author of the novel RE JANE, and Assistant Professor of Literature at the American University in Washington D.C. Dr Jessica Walton - Senior Research Fellow at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation at Deakin University in Melbourne CONTACT US Got a topic you'd like us to cover? Send us an email at thequicky@mamamia.com.au Mamamia acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land we have recorded this podcast on, the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation. We pay our respects to their Elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode Chris and Courtney talk with Thao Phan about her research on AI, Robotics and algorithmic cultures. Specifically, discussing her work on  technologies like Amazon's Echo and Apple's Siri and how they continue histories of racialised, gendered and classed labour in the domestic sphere. They also discuss the ethics of AI and how much of the ethics research is funded by the companies producing the ethical questions. Thao is a Research Fellow at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation at Deakin University. She is a feminist STS researcher who analyses the technologization of gender and race in algorithmic culture. She is also the Co-founder and Convenor of the Australasian STS grad network (or AusSTS) and the program coordinator for the Deakin Science and Society Network. ReferencesThe materiality of the digital and the gendered voice of Siri (2017) TechnoscienceAmazon Echo and the Aesthetics of Whiteness (2019) CatalystEconomies of virtue: the circulation of "ethics" in AI and digital cultureRe Bioethicist serving on pharma board see Leigh Turner's pieceMusic & AudioThe Jetsons: Rosie the Robot First AppearanceMusic City Plaza - Dan Bodan

Dr. Neale is a Senior Research Fellow at the Alfred Deakin Institute at Deakin University. There, he studies human geography and cultural anthropology. We use his paper, Fuzzy Boundaries: Simulation and Expertise in Bush Fire Management, to help frame our discussion. Tune in to hear our insights about the safety community and Dr. Neale's thoughts on bush fire management. Topics:Dr. Neale's PhD thesis.How he gained access to the F-band community.The tension between people in front-line occupations and safety professionals.Improvising and standardizing.The tension between individuals and bureaucracy.How to be an effective communicator.What happens after a big fire season.Becoming a fire behavior analyst. Quotes:“When you're interacting with somebody, what is your expertise based in?”“There's no one way of doing it right and any attempt to wrangle these people, these professionals into being all one type of person, they will resist it.”“The theme that expresses itself in a particular part of people's work, expresses itself in many other parts of their work; it's not a contained problem…” Resources:Fuzzy Boundaries: Simulation and Expertise in Bush Fire ManagementFeedback@safetyofwork.com

Following the terrorism attack where three people died in a knife attack in Nice last week, Michael is joined by Professor Greg Barton, Chair in Global Islamic Politics, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship & Globalisation at Deakin University, to discuss why France has this problem with terrorism compared to other countries.  ‘The people of France have lived through so many terrorist attacks in recent decades. This is not just the awful violence associated with the rise of ISIS, but a seemingly endless series of attacks going back to the Strasbourg-Paris train bombing in June 1961 that killed 28.’  ‘In 2014, the rise of ISIS saw the beginning of a different kind of terror attack in France. Assault weapons featured in the Charlie Hebdo and kosher supermarket attacks of January 2015 and in the attack on the Bataclan theatre in November 2015.’  ‘For France’s six million Muslims, the current sadness is compounded by dread and fear as every Islamist terror attack triggers a fresh wave of public questioning about their loyalty to the republic and its values.’ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Acknowledgement of countryNews headlines with Cait Kelly Priya gives a brief overview of the war between Armenia and Azerbaijan in Nagorno Karabakh/Artsakh. They provided the following resources for listeners to find out more. https://helparmenians.carrd.co/ bit.ly/artsakh-solidarity  Marisol Salinas, host on 3CR's Mujeres Latinoamericanas show joins us to speak about Mapuche political prisoners, Mapuche resistance and the upcoming referendum in Chile. Since this interview protests have sparked in Chile and protestors have set two churches alight including San Francisco de Borja which is regularly used by Carabineros police force.  Eileen Chong is a poet based in Sydney. She is the author of eight books, the latest being Rainforest, a collection of 52 poems, published in 2018 by Pitt Street Poetry. Her work has been shortlisted for many prizes, including twice for the Prime Minister's Literary Awards. Her next book, A Thousand Crimson Blooms, will be published by the University of Queensland Press in April 2021. Today she reads a selection of four poems: three shorter poems from her forthcoming book, and one longer poem, in five parts, from Rainforest. Dr Monique Mann and Dr Jake Goldenfein join Scheherazade to discuss facial recognition and their recent report on regulating biometrics in Australia. Monique is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology and member of the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation at Deakin University. Monique's socio-legal research concentrates on the intersecting topics of algorithmic justice, police technology, surveillance, and transnational online policing. Jake Goldenfein is a law and technology scholar based at Melbourne Law School where he teaches digital platform regulation. He is also an investigator at the Australian Research Council funded Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society.

The Covid-19 pandemic has strained the cohesiveness of our society. People are becoming more and more divergent in their views, and more and more distrusting of opposing views. A lot of people feel more marginalised and categorised while some seek strongly to find someone to blame for this crisis.What will the effect of this be for society in the future? Joining Waleed to discuss this is Professor Michele Grossman, Research Chair in Diversity and Community Resilience at the Alfred Deakin Institute and Dr Rebecca Huntley, Principal at Vox Populi Research. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

Labour updates from the Asia Pacific Region.Interview with James Barry, academic and research at the Alfred Deakin Institute, focussing on religious and ethnic minorities in the Middle East.  James talks to us about the current outbreak of conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan.Asia Pacific Currents is a program of Australia Asia Worker Links.

La encuesta elaborada por el Alfred Deakin Institute muestra que sólo el 38% de víctimas de delitos de odio formaliza su denuncia ante policía o entorno.

Dr.Ali Mozaffari is a Fellow of the Australian Research Council (DECRA) in the Alfred Deakin Institute, at Deakin University, Australia and an Adjunct Research Fellow with the Australia-Asia-Pacific Institute, at Curtin University, Australia. The focus of his work is on the politics of heritage, social movements and the making of cultural heritage, heritage and the built environment, and histories and design of architecture in Iran and more broadly in West Asia. One of the keynote speakers at 2019 Iranica Conference in an interview about his topic in the conference and his recent works. - آقای دکتر علی مظفری عضو شورای تحقیقات استرالیا (DECRA) در انستیتوی آلفرد دیکین، دانشگاه Deakin و پژوهشگر موسسه استرالیا-آسیا و اقیانوسیه ، در دانشگاه کرتین، استرالیا است. محور کاری او شامل مباحثی از جمله سیاست های میراث فرهنگی، جنبشهای اجتماعی و ساختار میراث فرهنگی و همینطور تاریخ و طراحی معماری در ایران و در غرب آسیا است.

Professor Greg Barton, Research Professor and Chair of Global Islamic Politics at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation talks about Australia and Australians getting involved in events in Papua. - Profesor Greg Barton, Profesor Riset dan Ketua Politik Global Islam di Institut Alfred Deakin untuk Kewarganegaraan dan Globalisasi, berbicara tentang Australia dan warga Australia terlibat dalam peristiwa di Papua.

Greg Barton, Research Professor and Chair of Global Islamic Politics in the Alfred Deakin Institute at Deakin University, and Ida Pengelingsir Agung Putra Sukahet, General Chairperson of the Indonesian Forum for the Harmony of Religious People, discuss the impact of the Sri Lanka Easter bombings on future security and harmony. - Greg Barton, Profesor Riset dan Ketua Politik Islam Global di Institut Alfred Deakin Universitas Deakin dan Ida Pengelingsir Agung Putra Sukahet, Ketua Umum Asosiasi Forum Kerukunan Umat Beragama Indonesia, membahas dampak serangan bom pada hari Paskah di Sri Lanka terhadap keamanan dan harmoni di masa depan.

We’re back, live from Tim's lounge! Episode eleven see the podcast return to a roundtable format with two outstanding anthropologists who’ve both recently published books about land rights and development in Papua New Guinea: Monica Minnegal and Victoria Stead. Monica is Associate Professor in Anthropology at the University of Melbourne many years working with Gubor and Bedamuní people in Papua New Guinea, studying the impacts of modernity on their understandings and practices. Most recently, Monica is the author, with Peter Dwyer, of Navigating the Future: An Ethnography of Change in Papua New Guinea (ANU Press, 2017). Victoria is DECRA Research Fellow at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation. Her research has a strong Pacific focus, and she is the author of Becoming Landowners: Entanglements of Custom and Modernity in Papua New Guinea and Timor-Leste (University of Hawaii Press, 2017). Some further reading: Minnegal M and Dwyer PD. (2017) Navigating the future: An ethnography of change in Papua New Guinea, Canberra: ANU Press. Stead V. (2017) Becoming landowners: Entanglements of custom and modernity in Papua New Guinea and Timor-Leste, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. Minnegal M, King TJ, Just R, et al. (2003) Deep identity, shallow time: sustaining a future in Victorian fishing communities. The Australian Journal of Anthropology 14: 53-71. Minnegal M, Lefort S and Dwyer PD. (2015) Reshaping the social: A comparison of Fasu and Kubo-Febi approaches to incorporating land groups. The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology 16: 496-513. Stead V. (2015) Homeland, territory, property: Contesting land, state, and nation in urban Timor-Leste. Political Geography 45: 79-89. Stead V. (2018) History as Resource: Moral Reckonings with Place and with the Wartime Past in Oro Province, Papua New Guinea. Anthropological Forum.

The emergence of bioethics in Australia: contesting life, death, and the purpose of medicine. Christopher Mayes is a Research Fellow in the Alfred Deakin Institute at Deakin University and Research-Affiliate in Sydney Health Ethics at the University of Sydney. He is the author of The Biopolitics of Lifestyle: Foucault, Ethics, and Healthy Choices (Routledge, 2016) and his forthcoming book, Unsettling Food Politics: agriculture, dispossession, and sovereignty in Australia (Rowman & Littlefield International), examines contemporary political and ethical discourses of food and agriculture in Australia.

2017 ICAS OCEANIA CONFERENCE - Forging Alliances and Intersections Dr Yamini Narayanan on Cow Protectionism And Indian Animal AdvocacyAudio provided by Progressive Podcast Australia https://progressivepodcastaustralia.com/Dr Yamini Narayanan is an ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) Senior Fellow at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation.Her work explores the notion that that religion influences urban development in India, and must inform policy. India's scale and speed of urbanisation makes its sustainable urban development critical globally, yet modernist urban planning has failed to address slum growth, poverty, gender inequality and ecological crises.More recently, her research has begun investigate to the ways in which animals – particularly those regarded as heritage or sacred icons in India, such as cattle – are invoked as symbols of human identity politics and/or as resources for growth in cities. Animals have a significant yet invisible role of in city building, and urban religion can be complicit in enabling animal exploitation for urban development. Her work now also seeks to develop frameworks for multi-species inclusive urban planningInstitute for Critical Animal Studieshttp://www.criticalanimalstudies.org/Dr. Yamini Narayanan http://www.deakin.edu.au/about-deakin/people/yamini-narayananDr. Yamini Narayanan article Dairy, Death and Dharma:The devastation of cow protectionism in India https://www.animalliberationcurrents.com/dairy-death-dharma/

Welcome to episode 18 in Season 2 of Real Democracy Now! a podcast. This episode is part 4 of the series where my guests share their views in response to the question: If you could change one thing about our system of democracy what would it be? And it is also the last episode in Season 2 about representative democracy. I’ll be taking a break to put together Season 3 looking at Elections, voting and alternatives.   First up let’s hear from Professor Nadia Urbinati’s response to this question. Nadia is is a Professor of Political Theory and Hellenic Studies at Columbia University. She is a political theorist who specialises in modern and contemporary political thought and the democratic and anti-democratic traditions. I spoke with Nadia about the development of representative democracy in episode 2 of Season 2.   Next is Dr Simon Longstaff is the Executive Director of the Ethics Centre here in Sydney Australia. Simon was my guest in episode 17 of Season 2 talking about the relationship between democracy and ethics.   Lewis Adams who was a juror on the Infrastructure Victoria Citizens’ Jury in 2015 and a guest on Episode 17 in Season 1.   Nancy Thomas is the Director of the Institute for Democracy and Higher Education in the Jonathan M Tisch College of Civic Life at Tufts College. My interview with Nancy will be published in a later season of the podcast.    Helene Landemore is Associate Professor of Political Science at Yale University. Her research interests encompass democratic theory, theories of justice, Enlightenment thinkers, and the philosophy of social sciences.   Jean-Paul Gagnon from the University of Canberra. Jean-Paul is a philosopher of democracy specialising in democratic theory. I spoke with Jean-Paul in Episode 6 in Season 2 about his work identifying the many adjectives associated with democracy.   Harm van Dijk is one of the founders of the G1000 in the Netherlands. I spoke with Harm in Episode 15 in Season 1 about the design of the G1000 there.   The next person to answer the question is Professor James Fishkin who holds the Janet M. Peck Chair in International Communication at Stanford University where he is Professor of Communication, Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for Deliberative Democracy. I spoke with Professor Fishkin about deliberative polling in episode 16 in Season 1.   Andy Holdup who was a member of the Citizens’ Assembly South in Southhampton in the UK in 2015 and also a guest on episode 17 in Season 1.   And finally, we hear from Benjamin Isakhan who is Associate Professor of Politics and Policy Studies and Founding Director of POLIS, a research network for Politics and International Relations in the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalization at Deakin University, Australia. I spoke with Ben in episode 4 of Season 2 about non-Western democracy.    Thank you for joining me for Season 2 of Real Democracy Now! a podcast, looking at how representative democracy developed and how it operates. I’ll be back with Season 3 on Elections, voting and alternatives in September 2017. If you haven’t yet subscribed to the podcast, I’d suggest you do that now so that when Season 3 starts you’ll automatically have those episodes downloaded onto your podcast app. 

Welcome to Episode 13 of Season 2 of Real Democracy Now! a podcast. In today’s episode, we are talking at the democratic deficit again, this time focusing more on structural aspects of democracy.   First up I talk to Professor Nadia Urbinati. Nadia is a Professor of Political Theory and Hellenic Studies at Columbia University. She is a political theorist who specialises in modern and contemporary political thought and the democratic and anti-democratic traditions.  Nadia has written extensively on democracy including two books: Representative Democracy: Principles and Genealogy, Democracy Disfigured, and Mill on Democracy: From the Athenian Polis to Representative Government.    I first spoke to Nadia in episode 2 of Season 2 of the podcast where she spoke about the origins and components of representative democracy. Today Nadia talks about the democracy deficit as well as her book Democracy Disfigured, where she identifies three types of democratic disfigurement: the unpolitical, the populist and the plebiscitarian.   My second guest is Emeritus Professor Barry Hindess. Barry is Emeritus Professor in the School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University. Like many senior academics he has published more than he cares to remember, including Discourses of Power: from Hobbes to Foucault, Governing Australia: studies in contemporary rationalities of government (with Mitchell Dean), Corruption and Democracy in Australia, Us and them: elites and anti-elitism in Australia (with Marian Sawer)and papers on neo-liberalism, liberalism and empire and the temporalizing of difference.   I came across Barry’s 2002 paper Deficit by Design early in my PhD studies and it was my introduction to the idea that the structure of representative democracy was itself one of the key limitations for the system of democracy. Barry’s argument is "that the problem of democratic deficit is in fact the normal condition of the institutions of representative government… [concluding that] democratic deficit is an integral part of its design.” Barry is now retired so I am very grateful that he made the time to talk with me for this episode.     My third guest is Professor Wolfgang Merkel, who is the Director of the Research Unit: Democracy and Democratization at the WZB Social Science Research Centre Berlin, as well as heading up the Centre for Global Constitutionalism and a number of other projects. He has written widely on democracy, democratisation, social democracy and democracy & capitalism to name but a few in academic and non-academic publications. Professor Merkel is a co-project leader of the Democracy Barometer. This project developed an instrument to assess the quality of democracy in 30 established democracies and was the focus of my discussion with Professor Merkel in episode 2. 3   My fourth guest is Professor Leonardo Morlino who is a professor of political science and director of the Research Center on Democracies and Democratizations at LUISS, Rome. Prof. Morlino is a leading specialist in comparative politics with expertise on Southern Europe, Eastern Europe, and the phenomenon of democratization. Professor Morlino has been part of a few other episodes -  episode 2.3 explaining his analytical approach to evaluating democracy, episode 2.12 about trust and the democratic deficit and he will be on a future episode talking about the relationship between representative democracy and capitalism.   My fifth guest is Dr Roslyn Fuller, a Canadian-Irish academic and columnist, specialising in public international law, and the impact of technological innovation on democracy. Her latest book Beasts and Gods: How Democracy Changed Its Meaning and Lost Its Purpose explores the flaws of representative democracy and how they could be addressed through the application of ancient Athenian principles of demokratia (people power). Her work has appeared, among others, in OpenDemocracy, The Nation, The Toronto Star, Salon and The Irish Times, as well as in many scholarly journals. She is currently a Research Associate at Waterford Institute of Technology and founding member of the Solonian Democracy Institute.   Roslyn was also my guest in episode 2.2 talking about her research on democracy in ancient Athens and how we might apply Athenian direct today. Like Nadia Urbinati, Roslyn is concerned about the impact of money on democracy.    And finally, we hear from Associate Professor Ben Isakhan who is Associate Professor of Politics and Policy Studies and Founding Director of POLIS, a research network for Politics and International Relations in the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalization at Deakin University, Australia. He is also Adjunct Senior Research Associate, in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa and an Associate of the Sydney Democracy Network at the University of Sydney, Australia. Ben is the author of Democracy in Iraq: History, Politics, Discourse and the editor of six books including The Secret History of Democracy, and The Edinburgh Companion to the History of Democracy: From Pre-History to Future Possibilities. Ben was my guest on episode 2. 4 talking about non-Western democracy. Today he talks about the challenges to “brand democracy."     Thanks for joining me today. In the next episode of Real Democracy Now! a podcast I will be talking to Quinton Mayne, an Associate Professor of Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University about his research on satisfaction with democracy. I hope you’ll join me then.

Welcome to episode 4 of Season 2 of Real Democracy Now! A podcast. Today’s episode is about non-Western democracy. I’d like to thank David Schecter for bringing this area of democratic thinking and practice to my attention and for introducing me to my two guests: Associate Professor Benjamin Isakhan and PhD scholar Zelalem Sirna from Ethiopia. Both guests highlight the Eurocentric nature of much of the discourse on democracy and introduce us to some non-western examples of democratic practice.   Benjamin Isakhan is Associate Professor of Politics and Policy Studies and Founding Director of POLIS, a research network for Politics and International Relations in the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalization at Deakin University, Australia. He is also Adjunct Senior Research Associate, in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa and an Associate of the Sydney Democracy Network at the University of Sydney, Australia. Ben is the author of Democracy in Iraq: History, Politics, Discourse (Routledge, 2012 HB, 2016 PB) and the editor of 6 books  including The Secret History of Democracy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011 HB, 2012 PB – translated into Japanese 2012, and Arabic 2014), and The Edinburgh Companion to the History of Democracy: From Pre-History to Future Possibilities (Edinburgh University Press & Oxford University Press, 2012 HB, 2015 PB). He is a leading expert and regular commentator on Middle Eastern Politics, Democracy and Democratization across the Middle East, and Heritage Destruction in the Middle East.    Zelalem Sirna is a PhD scholar at the University of Coimbra in Portugal in the programme of Democracy in 21sy Century.  He earned his LL.B degree in law from the Haramaya University Ethiopia and his MPhil in Indigenous Studies from University of Tromso, Norway.  For his Masters, he undertook a comparative study of Gadaa, the traditional system of governance in Ethiopia and liberal democracy. For his Ph, he is looking at deliberative democracy, deliberative systems and the Gadaa system. As a sociology-legal researcher, is main works are focused on normative pluralism and the challenges it poses in 21st century.    The next episode will consider what my guests think is the one change they would like to see in our system of democracy. I ask all of my guests the same two questions: what for you is the essence of a real democracy and if you could change one thing about our current system of democracy what would it be. I’d love to hear your answers to these two questions and include your perspectives in future episodes. You can send your perspectives to me by email to essence@realdemocracynow.com.au or via Twitter or Facebook. 

MRelay 2016 jumped out of the blocks with the theme 'Cultivate'. We looked at the city as a place to nurture and, in turn, asked the question: how do we create a civic space that nurtures its inhabitants? Can we as citizens be both productive (and products of) a city? How do we take responsibility for moulding its environmental and cultural fabric? This session explored the power of collective consciousness and how human infrastructure can grow and maintain a healthy coexistence. From rooftop honey apiaries to asylum centre-run food trucks, to the promotion of gender equality and social enterprises, Melbourne is a resource for both edible and social opportunities. Through a myriad of interventions, all of us can acquire knowledge and develop skills that have longevity and impact on our community. Cultivate was hosed by Peter Maddison, director of Maddison Architects and host of acclaimed television series Grand Designs Australia. Speakers included Catherine Brown, CEO of the Lord Mayor’s Charitable Foundation; Jefa Greenaway, director of Greenaway Architects, chair of Indigenous Architecture + Design Victoria; Russell Shields, Food Justice Truck manager at the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre; Wendy Syfret, editor of i-D Australia; Amy Mullins, executive director of the Women’s Leadership Institute of Australia; Dr Michele Lobo, senior research fellow at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation; and Kate Dundas, award-winning landscape architect and urban designer and radio presenter on 3RRR.

The cow is a sacred animal in India with nearly 80% of its Hindu population abstaining from eating beef and worshiping the animal for its production of milk. Surprisingly enough, the country has become the world's largest exporter of beef products, exporting more than 2 million tonnes a year and consuming just as much. Why is India selling the sacred cow? Dr Yamini Narayanan (DECRA Senior Fellow at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation at Deakin University) talks to Matt Smith about this clash of ideals which have become a topic of controversy, corruption and murder in India.

The cow is a sacred animal in India with nearly 80% of its Hindu population abstaining from eating beef and worshiping the animal for its production of milk. Surprisingly enough, the country has become the world's largest exporter of beef products, exporting more than 2 million tonnes a year and consuming just as much. Why is India selling the sacred cow? Dr Yamini Narayanan (DECRA Senior Fellow at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation at Deakin University) talks to Matt Smith about this clash of ideals which have become a topic of controversy, corruption and murder in India.

The cow is a sacred animal in India with nearly 80% of its Hindu population abstaining from eating beef and worshiping the animal for its production of milk. Surprisingly enough, the country has become the world's largest exporter of beef products, exporting more than 2 million tonnes a year and consuming just as much. Why is India selling the sacred cow? Dr Yamini Narayanan (DECRA Senior Fellow at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation at Deakin University) talks to Matt Smith about this clash of ideals which have become a topic of controversy, corruption and murder in India.