Dr Maria Brown from the Department of Arts, Open Communities and Adult Education, and Dr Michael Briguglio from the Department of Sociology at University of Malta presented findings of a study on pro-LGBTIQ rights movement in Malta at the international workshop 'Liberal Democracy in Crisis? Dialectics of Politicization and Depoliticisation'.
The hybrid event, held between 8 and 9 July 2021, was hosted by the Inter-University Centre Dubrovnik - Croatia. The event forms part of the work programme of of the 'Reappraising Intellectual Debates on Civic Rights and Democracy in Europe'.
The workshop discussion will inform the forthcoming publication Democracy in Stormy Times: Democratic crisis revisited, edited by Claudia Wiesner, Ruzha Smilova and Meike Schmidt-Gleim, to which Dr Briguglio and Dr Brown will contribute with the co-authored chapter "Repoliticising movements: The case of pro-LGBTIQ rights in Malta".
The event programme can be accessed .
