Season 5, Episode 15: On Direct Democracy - A Conversation with Prof. Scott Henkel

Watch & Listen to Ahmed Bouzid’s conversation with Professor Scott Henkel, Director of the Wyoming Institute for Humanities Research, the Wyoming Excellence Chair in the Humanities, and Associate Professor in the Departments of English and African American and Diaspora Studies at the University of Wyoming. Prof, Henkell is the author of the path breaking "Direct Democracy: Collective Power, the Swarm, and the Literatures of the Americas," which received the C.L.R. James Award for Best Published Book for Academic or General Audiences from the Working-Class Studies Association in 2018 -- and in this conversation we focus on the concepts of Direct Democracy and The Swarm and discuss their relevance to our current moment.
Key Terms: Direct Democracy, The Swarm, Haiti, Revoluton
Key links:
Prof. Scott Henkel' University of Wyoming page: www.uwyo.edu/e...
Wyoming Institute for Humanities Research: www.uwyo.edu/h...
Book -- Direct Democracy: Collective Power, the Swarm, and the Literatures of the Americas (Caribbean Studies Series) Hardcover - May 25, 2017
www.amazon.com...