HPS3 SeminarSeminar with Federico Zuolo

2. Juli 2025, 17:15 Uhr

INVITATION

Please be invited to the Hamburg Political Science Seminar Series - HPS³ in  Summer Semester 2025.

The HPS Seminar Series features international speakers presenting cutting-edge research in empirical political science and political economy. It takes place on Thursdays and Wednesdays . For further information about dates and speakers in SuSe 25 please refer to the HPS³ Website.

We welcome on 

July 02, 2025 17:15-18:45 CET in VMP9 B130

Federico Zuolo (University of Genoa) 
On Directness and Relevance: Civil Disobedience vs Direct Action

Abstract: Recent acts of civil disobedience in protest against politicians’ inaction about climate change have often targeted works of art to provoke public opinion on the issue. Such initiatives have attracted criticism from those who object to this form of political dissent. Can civil disobedience be indirect and target objects that are unrelated to the problem at stake? This paper argues that indirect civil disobedience should comply with a criterion of relevance according to which the target should be in some sense related to the problem denounced by the action. Such a requirement draws on Grice’s conversation maxims and ensures that civil disobedience be a proper communicative act. Relevance may be a component of disobedience without implying that radical protest should take the form of direct action.

All Welcome!

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