This talk aims to provoke discussion about the long-term, ‘deep’ effects of green politics on the language and institutions and ‘imaginary’ of democracy. Some of these effects are more obvious than others, he points out. In half a generation, green-minded intellectuals, movements and political parties have helped ensure that such matters as chemical pollutants, nuclear [...]
ABC 24 talks to Professor John Keane about Julian Assange’s bid for Senate. Professor Keane spent a day with Julian Assange at the Ecuadorian embassy in London. 3 April 2013. Original Link here -> Lunch and dinner with Julian Assange, in prison
If you were told that the Islamic world was the birthplace of the democratic system would you believe it? What about the claim that South Australia played a leading role in the development of democracy?
New Reasons Why Media and Democracy Matter in the Early Years of the Twenty-First Century Insights 2012: Inaugural Lecture Series, Thursday 31 May 2012 Listen to Audio
The internationally renowned democracy expert, Professor John Keane, joined a special Sydney Writers’ Festival panel discussion on Thursday 17 May in the University of Sydney’s Great Hall on the future of the Occupy movement.
702 ABC Sydney _ May 17, 2011 The Spanish Indignados movement began a year ago and is said to be the forerunner to the Occupy movement that began in New York last September. Since then we have seen the Occupy movement spread across the world, from Armenia to Mexico to Malaysia to Australia. Some occupations have closed [...]
During my first encounter with him, in Prague in 1984, when everything seemed hopeless, I was struck by the man’s hedgehog resilience. Here was a rarity: an unusual figure, intense but witty, a clear-headed thinker and a wonderful writer, a courageous individual blessed with a razor-sharp sense of irony; a chain-smoking man of letters whose [...]
An interview about Vaclav Havel with The World Today’s Eleanor Hall, ABC Radio, 19 December 2011 Listen to Audio Transcript As mourners gather in Prague’s Wenceslas Square to pay respect to their late former president, tributes to Vaclav Havel have been pouring in from leaders around the world. US president Barack Obama says the man [...]
John Keane was guest of Radio Australia (ABC) on 21 November 2011 to talk with Isabelle Genoux about the global occupation movement. Listen to Audio
55 years ago the British government commenced nuclear testing in the South Australian outback. It was named “Operation Buffalo” and it took place at the remote Maralinga site. Four fission bombs were tested and British and Australian servicemen were exposed to the fallout. Today the Maralinga area is a “No Go” zone and the local aboriginal people feel the area [...]