With the title "Civil Disobedience and citizenship ', Professor Javier de Lucas pronounced Tuesday a lecture to the Royal Economic Society of Friends of the Country. The event will be held at 19:30 in the auditorium of the historic building of the Conservatory of Music, located in the Plaça de Sant Esteban 3, València.
Javier de Lucas, who is Professor of Philosophy of Law at the University of Valencia and researcher at the Institute for Human Rights, will be presented by the librarian of the society and also a professor at the University, Bas Nicholas Martin.
Professor Lucas is planning to start his lecture posing the relation between democracy and dissent as a key to the understanding of participatory democracy deficits, which are more evident in times of crisis. For Javier de Lucas, if the future of democracy involves the design of a new model, this model is the extension of plural and inclusive character, and in both cases, dissent is capital.
On this basis, professor Lucas will develop an argument facing disqualification of civil disobedience and social movements who exercise, as, inter alia, the Platform of People Affected by the Mortgage. In his presentation, the positions of the father of theories on civil disobedience, Henry David Thoreau, will be revisited, an exponent of anarcho-liberal conception, to focus on the concept of network, which sociologist Manuel Castells knew how to detect as one of the keys to our societies. A key that in these changing times, according to Lucas, presents us with practices of disobedience, resistance and dissent that, paradoxically, represent ways of solidarity and participation.
Javier de Lucas, who has been director of the College of Spain in Paris, led to the creation, in 2005, of the Human Rights Institute of the University of Valencia (HDI), which continues to develop its research. Currently led by Professor Consuelo Ramon, the HDI has received from the Ministry of Education an Excellence Mention for its doctoral program Human Rights, Democracy and International Justice. The HDI obtained in 2008 an aid within the Consolider-Ingenio 2010 program, as part of a project in which twelve Spanish universities participate. The program Consolider-Ingenio 2010 is the main method of financing for the National Plan for Scientific Research, Development and Technological Innovation 2008-2011 for high quality projects. It was the first time that a team of researchers from the legal field received aid of this kind, mainly aimed at scientific contexts away from the Humanities and Social Sciences.
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