No dia 16 de janeiro, André Santos Campos (Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, NOVA) será o orador de um seminário do Grupo de Investigação RIGoP com o tema Intergenerational Justice and Semi-Future Democracy. A partir das 11h, na sala 1 do ICS-ULisboa & online.

Abstract:

The last few decades have been the centre stage of valuable work on intergenerational relations. These debates have given rise to copious literature in an entirely new subfield of political theory, which is usually called ‘intergenerational justice’, the object of which is the moral and political status of the relations between present and past or future people or between present people who identify differently due to their age. This subfield does not unfold at the theoretical level alone but is elicited by challenges that justify talking about responsibilities between people situated differently in time, such as public debt, the funding of pensions, reparations for past wrongs, and especially climate change. In this survey presentation, I outline some of the key challenges faced by contemporary democracies that arise specifically from time-related categories. First, I focus on overlapping generations and discuss some difficulties and possible solutions. Second, I focus on future generations and analyse a few proposals and experiences concerning franchise reform and institutional design. In the end, I present and explain the notion of semi-future in light of which democracies can face these different challenges by acknowledging their inherent multitemporality.