"Feminist Democracy: Reconstruction of Autonomy, Identity and Citizenship" - PhD Dissertation Defense by Aia Beraia
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Public defense of the doctoral dissertation “Feminist Democracy: Reconstruction of Autonomy, Identity and Citizenship” by the doctoral student of the doctoral programme Philosophy, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Ilia State University, Aia Beraia, will be held on April 29, at 10:00, under the Cotutelle Agreement between University of Münster (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster) and Ilia State University.
The joint project gives the doctoral student an opportunity to defend a dissertation based on the cotutelle principle and obtain a double doctoral degree and diplomas from both universities.
The project aims to offer the new model of democracy through reconstructing several foundations of actual liberal democracies. There are various symptoms that liberal democracy is in crisis – among them are the decline of electoral participation, the rise of far-right movements and the strengthening of illiberal regimes. As a response to this global crisis, the author proposes ‘feminist democracy’ – the model which is constructed by looking into the theoretical flaws and weaknesses of normative liberal theory, the foundational ideas of liberal democracy, and offers their reconstruction in feminist terms. Following this aim, the objectives are to reconstruct the ideas of autonomy, identity and citizenship. Thus, the research aims to create a normative theory of democracy. The proposed normative theoretical framework of the dissertation consists of the ideas of relational autonomy and collective autonomy, ‘identity’ as an ethical- normative concept and a feminist-republican model of citizenship in heterogeneous societies.
Supervisor from the University of Münster: Professor Thomas Gutmann
Supervisor from Ilia State University: Associate Professor Tamar Tskadadze
Working language: English
Time: April 29; 10:00
Venue: Ilia State University, S800, 3 G. Tsereteli str.
2025