Asara Viviana, Dr.
Assistant Professor
WU Vienna University of Economics and Business
Institute for Multi-Level Governance and Development
Welthandelsplatz 1/D4
1020 Vienna, Austria
Access to the institute ONLY via the third floor - main entrance (Entrance A - wheel chair accessible).
Viviana Asara is Assistant Professor at the Institute for Multi-Level Governance and Development. Her research focuses on environmental politics and sociology, social movements and movement-parties, degrowth, political ecology, and democracy. In July 2015 she obtained her PhD summa cum laude in Environmental Science from the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA) of the Autonomous University of Barcelona, with a thesis entitled “Democracy without growth: The political ecology of the Indignados movement”. She has a master's degree in Environmental Policy from the University of Cambridge and a master’s degree (summa cum laude) in Political Science from the University of Bologna (“Laurea Specialistica”).
Contact hours
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Publications
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Journal article
| 2020 | Asara, Viviana. 2020. The Limits of Liberal Democracy: Prospects for Democratizing Democracy. Democratic Theory. 7 (1), 73-85. Read more |
| 2020 | Asara, Viviana. 2020. Untangling the radical imaginaries of the Indignados¿ movement: commons, autonomy and ecologism. Environmental Politics. Read more |
| 2019 | Asara, Viviana, Centemeri, Laura, Corrado, Alessandra, Dal Gobbo, Alice, Ghelfi, Andrea, Pellizzoni, Luigi, Torre, Salvo. 2019. Commentary to Gennaro Avallone¿s Interview to Jason W. Moore. Sociologia Urbana e Rurale. 120 22-46. Read more |
| 2019 | Asara, Viviana, Centemeri, Laura. 2019. Sulla desiderabilità del lavoro neghentropico. L¿importanza dei processi di costruzione di senso nella comprensione delle dinamiche del capitalismo e della sua critica. Etica & Politica (Ethics & Politics). XXI 139-146. Read more |
| 2019 | Asara, Viviana. 2019. The Redefinition and Co-Production of Public Services by Urban Movements. The Can Batlló Social Innovation in Barcelona. PArtecipazione e COnflitto (PACO). 12 (2), 539-565. Read more |
| 2016 | Asara, Viviana. 2016. The Indignados as a socio-environmental movement. Framing the crisis and democracy. Environmental Policy and Governance 26 (6), 527-542. Read more |
| 2015 | Asara, Viviana, Otero, Iago , Demaria, Federico , Corbera, Esteve. 2015. Socially sustainable degrowth as a social-ecological transformation: repoliticizing sustainability. Sustainability Science 10 (3): S. 375-384. Read more |
| 2013 | Asara, Viviana, Profumi, Emanuele, Kallis, Giorgos. 2013. Degrowth, Democracy and Autonomy. Environmental Values 22 (2): S. 217-239. Read more |
Chapter in edited volume
| 2020 | Varvarousis, Angelos, Asara, Viviana, Akbulut, Bengi. 2020. The Making of a New Commons in Southern Europe: Afterlives of the Movements of the Squares. In: Sustainable Community Movement Organizations: Solidarity Economies and Rhizomatic Practices, Hrsg. Francesca Forno and Richard R. Weiner, 57-71. Abingdon: Routledge. Read more |
| 2019 | Asara, Viviana. 2019. Die Grenzen der liberalen Demokratie: Aussichten auf eine Demokratisierung der Demokratie. In: Was stimmt nicht mit der Demokratie? Eine Debatte mit Klaus Dörre, Nancy Fraser, Stephan Lessenich und Hartmut Rosa, Hrsg. Hanna Ketterer und Karina Becker, 139-151. Berlin: Suhrkamp. Read more |
| 2018 | Spash, Clive L., Asara, Viviana. 2018. Ecological Economics: From nature to society. In: An Introduction to Pluralist Economics: Rethinking Economics, Hrsg. Liliann Fischer, Joe Hasell, J. Christopher Proctor, David Uwakwe, Zach Ward Perkins, Catriona Watson, 120-132. London: Routledge. Read more |
| 2017 | Asara, Viviana. 2017. Social movements and resistance. In: The Routledge Handbook of Ecological Economics: Nature and Society, Hrsg. Clive Spash, 173-182. Abingdon: Routledge. Read more |
| 2014 | Asara, Viviana, Muraca, Barbara. 2014. Indignados (Occupy). In: Degrowth: a vocabulary for a new era, Hrsg. Giacomo D'Alisa, Federico Demaria and Giorgos Kallis, S. 169-172. New York and London: Routledge. Read more |
Research report, expert opinion
| 2017 | Exner, Andreas, Cepoiu, Livia, Weinzierl, Carla, Asara, Viviana. 2017. Performing Smartness Differently. Strategic Enactments of a Global Imaginary in Three European Cities . Vienna:Vienna University of Economics and Business. Read more |
Teaching
You can find all classes in the WU Course Catalogue
Fields of research
Detailled information available at FIDES-Database
social movements
democracy and governance
degrowth
political ecology
political thought and philosophy
social-ecological transformation
ecological economics