Dr. Pablo Ouziel

Pablo Ouziel holds a Post-Doctoral Fellowship with the Centre for Global Studies and the Department of Political Science at the University of Victoria and is a visiting professor at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. Pablo’s research interests include public philosophy, collective presences, horizontality, nonviolence and civic democracy. By standing within the tradition of public philosophy, the core of his work is centred on excavating networks of individuals governing themselves in numerous ways that supersede our current structures of representative government.

Pablo’s forthcoming book (2019) ‘Democracy Here and Now: The exemplary case of Spain’, makes the argument that if as researchers we want to study the broad field of democratization and democracies, we need to listen to individual self-descriptions in their own vernacular languages. This he suggests is a healthy way towards understanding particular lifeways and the important lesson that he has learned through his dialogues of reciprocal elucidation within Spain’s 15M.