Hans Asenbaum is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance at the University of Canberra. After receiving his PhD in 2019 at the Centre for the Study of Democracy at the University of Westminster, he held a position as a Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies in Potsdam, Germany. His work focuses on radical democracy, democratic innovations, inclusion, marginalization and social identities. Hans is a co-convenor of the PSA Participatory and Deliberative Democracy Specialist Group and an associate editor of Democratic Theory.

The Politics of Becoming presents a striking and creative reworking of key aspects of democratic theory and practice, inviting the reader to rethink what presence, democratic spaces, equality, pluralism, and freedom now can and should mean. This revelation of ways to be democratic is essential reading for anyone interested in the contemporary prospects for democracy.

• 1: Becoming Subject to Change: An Introduction 2: Becoming Assemblage: Democratic Spaces 3: Becoming Present: Feminist Interventions 4: Becoming Multiple: Identity, Interrupted 5: Becoming Anonymous: Absence as Presence 6: Becoming Cyborg: New (Inter)faces 7: Unleashing the Democratic Microverse: Towards Systemic Transformation

Hans Asenbaum is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance at the University of Canberra. After receiving his PhD in 2019 at the Centre for the Study of Democracy at the University of Westminster, he held a position as a Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies in Potsdam, Germany. His work focuses on radical democracy, democratic innovations, inclusion, marginalization and social identities. Hans is a co-convenor of the PSA Participatory and Deliberative Democracy Specialist Group and an associate editor of Democratic Theory.

The Politics of Becoming presents a striking and creative reworking of key aspects of democratic theory and practice, inviting the reader to rethink what presence, democratic spaces, equality, pluralism, and freedom now can and should mean. This revelation of ways to be democratic is essential reading for anyone interested in the contemporary prospects for democracy.

• 1: Becoming Subject to Change: An Introduction 2: Becoming Assemblage: Democratic Spaces 3: Becoming Present: Feminist Interventions 4: Becoming Multiple: Identity, Interrupted 5: Becoming Anonymous: Absence as Presence 6: Becoming Cyborg: New (Inter)faces 7: Unleashing the Democratic Microverse: Towards Systemic Transformation

Hans Asenbaum is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance at the University of Canberra. After receiving his PhD in 2019 at the Centre for the Study of Democracy at the University of Westminster, he held a position as a Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies in Potsdam, Germany. His work focuses on radical democracy, democratic innovations, inclusion, marginalization and social identities. Hans is a co-convenor of the PSA Participatory and Deliberative Democracy Specialist Group and an associate editor of Democratic Theory.

The Politics of Becoming presents a striking and creative reworking of key aspects of democratic theory and practice, inviting the reader to rethink what presence, democratic spaces, equality, pluralism, and freedom now can and should mean. This revelation of ways to be democratic is essential reading for anyone interested in the contemporary prospects for democracy.

• 1: Becoming Subject to Change: An Introduction 2: Becoming Assemblage: Democratic Spaces 3: Becoming Present: Feminist Interventions 4: Becoming Multiple: Identity, Interrupted 5: Becoming Anonymous: Absence as Presence 6: Becoming Cyborg: New (Inter)faces 7: Unleashing the Democratic Microverse: Towards Systemic Transformation