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Ethnography
No full textThis chapter takes a close look at the role of ethnography in the study of deliberative practice. It describes ethnography as both a perspective and a toolbox. As a perspective, ethnography is a fitting methodology to fulfil critical theory’s task of rendering political power visible, particularly in its subtle and insidious forms. The ethnographic perspective is also responsive to developments in deliberative theory, such as the recognition of the role of passions, silences, and performativity in political communication. As a toolbox, ethnography offers a range of data-gathering and analytical techniques to make sense of public deliberation, while placing the positionality of the researcher at the centre of this approach. Finally, this chapter examines ethnography’s tensions with deliberative democracy’s normative commitments and draws on the authors’ extensive experience in ethnographic fieldwork to prompt reflections about the practical and ethical challenges of this approach
Improving deliberative participation: connecting mini-publics to deliberative systems
Full text linkThis article argues for the assessment of deliberative mini-publics as a dynamic part of a wider deliberative system. The approach draws primarily on Dryzek's (2009) deliberative capacity building framework, which describes the democratic process as ideally involving authentic deliberation, inclusiveness in the deliberative process, and consequentiality or deliberation's influence on decisions as well as positive impact on the system. This approach is illustrated using the comparative assessment of two mini-public case studies: the Australian Citizens' Parliament and Italy's Iniziativa di Revisione Civica (Civic Revision Initiative). The application of deliberative capacity as a standard for evaluating mini-publics in systemic terms reveals differences between the cases. The deliberative capacity of both cases overlap, but they do so for different reasons that stem from the interconnections between their specific designs and other components of the deliberative system
Norms
No full textThis chapter retraces the place of power in the normative theory of deliberative democracy. It describes deliberative democracy’s ambivalent relationship with power—it promises to humble coercive forms of power, yet it produces its own, productive form of power for this, which does not always come without problems. The chapter thus explores the nuances of both coercive and productive forms of power, responds to critiques of deliberative theory as either powerless or too powerful, and introduces a typology of deliberative democracy’s relationship with four different types of power, to culminate in a theory of deliberative power that centres on the power of justification to curb and legitimate uses of power in an inevitably imperfect world.</p
Deliberation in democracy's dark times
No full textThis piece reflects on the on the legacies of democratic deliberation, particularly mini-publics in responding to issues of disinformation, bigotry and nativism that has entered the political mainstream today. It aims to provoke conversations about the limitations of mini-publics in promoting democratic renewal and reconsider the functions of these forums in democracy's 'dark times.' Author Biography Nicole Curato is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance at the University of Canberra. She holds the Australian Research Council's Discovery Early Career Research Fellowship for her work on democratic innovations in sensitive political contexts. Lucy J Parry is a Research Associate at the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance at the University of Canberra. She currently works at Webster Private University in Vienna. She also works closely with Participedia to document and analyse democratic innovations around the world and has been involved in the organisation of deliberative processes in the UK and Australia. Her research has been published in Environmental Values, Agricultural Systems and British Politics.</p
Deliberation in democracy's dark times
No full textThis piece reflects on the on the legacies of democratic deliberation, particularly mini-publics in responding to issues of disinformation, bigotry and nativism that has entered the political mainstream today. It aims to provoke conversations about the limitations of mini-publics in promoting democratic renewal and reconsider the functions of these forums in democracy's 'dark times.' Author Biography Nicole Curato is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance at the University of Canberra. She holds the Australian Research Council's Discovery Early Career Research Fellowship for her work on democratic innovations in sensitive political contexts. Lucy J Parry is a Research Associate at the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance at the University of Canberra. She currently works at Webster Private University in Vienna. She also works closely with Participedia to document and analyse democratic innovations around the world and has been involved in the organisation of deliberative processes in the UK and Australia. Her research has been published in Environmental Values, Agricultural Systems and British Politics.</p
Dr. Nicole Maurantonio - Faculty Author Interview
No full textDr. Nicole Maurantonio, Associate Professor of Rhetoric & Communication Studies and American Studies, discusses her book, Confederate Exceptionalism: Civil War Myth and Memory in the Twenty-First Century, published recently by the University Press of Kansas. In a time of contentious debates and protests surrounding the removal of Confederate monuments, this book considers how so-called “neo-Confederates” can distance themselves from the actions of white supremacists while also clinging to the very symbols and narratives that tether the Confederacy to histories of racism and oppression in the United States
Manon Labrecque : Corps en chute
No full textThis publication, the outcome of several interviews conducted by Gingras with the artist, documents Labrecque’s videos, performances and drawings, some of which were produced following a visit to Mongolia. Gingras deals with Labrecque’s approach to treating imagery, and describes the various states of the body she explores in her works: the body as machine, as communicator, as catalyst, the obsessive body… The author also points to a number of analogies with the work of Bruce Nauman. Texts in English and French. 14 bibl. ref
Craft Talk: Nicole Walker
No full textNicole Walker is the author of Processed Meats: Essays on Food, Flesh and Navigating Disaster from Torrey House Press, The After-Normal: Brief, Alphabetical Essays on a Changing Planet from Rose Metal Press and Sustainability: A Love Story from Mad Creek Books/OSU Press. Her previous nonfiction includes Where the Tiny Things Are, Egg, Micrograms, and Quench Your Thirst with Salt. Barrow Street Press published her poetry collection, This Noisy Egg. She edited for Bloomsbury the essay collections Science of Story with Sean Prentiss and with Margot Singer, Bending Genre: Essays on Creative Nonfiction. She has written several essays for The New York Times and is a noted author in several editions of Best American Essays. She edits the Crux series at University of Georgia press and nonfiction at Diagram and teaches creative writing at Northern Arizona University
Karina Nicole González Spanish Language Picture Book Award 2024 Acceptance Speech
No full textAuthor Karina Nicole González gives an acceptance speech for Los coquíes aún cantan illustrated by Krystal Quileshttps://educate.bankstreet.edu/spanishlanguageaward/1009/thumbnail.jp
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