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Interdisciplinary Research in the

Social Sciences and Humanities
Latinx Research Center

University of California, Berkeley
Chochenyo Ohlone Unceded Land

THE DEMOCRACY LAB

Research in the Humanities

University of California, Berkeley

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UPCOMING EVENTS

TRANSFORMATIVE JUSTICE + DEMOCRACY

The relationship between transformative justice and decolonizing campuses, cities, and nations, is an integral part of our research on democracy. Such research begins with the recognition that slavery and other forms of violent subjugation, extraction, and displacement have long time been tied to the nominal cause of democracy in the United States and other parts of the world. Citizenship, elections, and practices of representation continue to be dependent on unequal and violent systems of exclusion. Thus, to work towards a transformation of these systems and a genuine practice of democracy, as scholars we situate our work alongside public demands to organize for racial justice in land back, reparations, and political-cultural movements to further decolonize our neighborhoods and institutions of learning.

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