Conveners:
Howard Winant, Sociology, hwinant@soc.ucsb.edu
John SW Park, Asian American Studies, jswpark@asamst.ucsb.edu

We sponsor a series of forums that highlight key dimensions of the crisis of democracy both in the US and globally. We frame that crisis as having cultural and political dimensions, and as manifest in exclusionary practices in and from the public sphere, as well as in various state policies and instrumentalities.  We focus especially on problems of citizenship and identity at various frontiers and boundaries of the nation-state.