Spaces Of Democracy

Author : Clive Barnett,Murray Low
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2004-08-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781412931397

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Spaces of Democracy by Clive Barnett,Murray Low Pdf

′This volume successfully exposes the "ghostly presence" of democracy in the field of geography and shows the value of thinking about democracy geographically. It is a major contribution to serious examination of a normative political issue from a geographical perspective. This is welcome above all because geography is a field whose cultural and economic branches, though often claiming the appellation "critical", are currently dominated by unexamined radical political fantasies′ - John Agnew, University of California, Los Angeles In an historically unprecedented way, democracy is now increasingly seen as a universal model of legitimate rule.This work addresses the key question: How can democracy be understood in theory and in practise? In three thematically organised sections, Spaces of Democracy uses a critical geographical imagination (informed by thinking on space, place, and scale) to interrogate the latest work in democratic theory. Key ideas and concepts discussed include globalization and transnationalism; representation; citizenship; liberalism; the city and public space; and the media. This volume comprises commissioned work by leading academics investigating democracy. Historical and comparative, animated by wider debates on globalization, it will facilitate the critical discussion of core questions on citizenship, the state, and democracy. Spaces of Democracy is essential reading for students of human geography, political science/international relations, and political sociology.

Author : Marcel Hénaff,Tracy B. Strong
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0816633878

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Public Space and Democracy by Marcel Hénaff,Tracy B. Strong Pdf

Moving from classical Greece to the present, Public Space and Democracy provides both historical accounts and a comparative analytical framework for understanding public space both as a place and as a product of various media, from speech to the Internet. These essays make a powerful case for thinking of modern technological developments not as the end of public space, but as an opportunity for reframing the idea of the public and of the public space as the locus of power.

Author : Leah R.E. Levac,Sarah Marie Wiebe
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781487519896

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Creating Spaces of Engagement by Leah R.E. Levac,Sarah Marie Wiebe Pdf

There is a growing need for public buy-in if democratic processes are to run smoothly. But who exactly is "the public"? What does their engagement in policy-making processes look like? How can our understanding of "the public" be expanded to include – or be led by – diverse voices and experiences, particularly of those who have been historically marginalized? And what does this expansion mean not only for public policies and their development, but for how we teach policy? Drawing upon public engagement case studies, sites of inquiry, and vignettes, this volume raises and responds to these and other questions while advancing policy justice as a framework for public engagement and public policy. Stretching the boundaries of deliberative democracy in theory and practice, Creating Spaces of Engagement offers critical reflections on how diverse publics are engaged in policy processes.

Author : John Parkinson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780199214563

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Democracy and Public Space by John Parkinson Pdf

In an online, interconnected world, democracy is increasingly made up of wikis and blogs, pokes and tweets. Citizens have become accidental journalists thanks to their handheld devices, politicians are increasingly working online, and the traditional sites of democracy - assemblies, public galleries, and plazas - are becoming less and less relevant with every new technology. And yet, this book argues, such views are leading us to confuse the medium with the message, focusing on electronic transmission when often what cyber citizens transmit is pictures and narratives of real democratic action in physical space. Democratic citizens are embodied, take up space, battle over access to physical resources, and perform democracy on physical stages at least as much as they engage with ideas in virtual space. Combining conceptual analysis with interviews and observation in capital cities on every continent, John Parkinson argues that democracy requires physical public space; that some kinds of space are better for performing some democratic roles than others; and that some of the most valuable kinds of space are under attack in developed democracies. He argues that accidental publics like shoppers and lunchtime crowds are increasingly valued over purposive, active publics, over citizens with a point to make or an argument to listen to. This can be seen not just in the way that traditional protest is regulated, but in the ways that ordinary city streets and parks are managed, even in the design of such quintessentially democratic spaces as legislative assemblies. The book offers an alternative vision for democratic public space, and evaluates 11 cities - from London to Tokyo - against that ideal.

Author : Timothy J. Shaffer,Nicholas V. Longo
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000980134

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Creating Space for Democracy by Timothy J. Shaffer,Nicholas V. Longo Pdf

Published in Association with and We live in divisive and polarizing times, often remaining in comfortable social bubbles and experiencing few genuine interactions with people who are different or with whom we disagree. Stepping out and turning to one another is difficult but necessary. For our democracy to thrive at a time when we face wicked problems that involve tough trade-offs it is vital that all citizens participate fully in the process. We need to learn to listen, think, and act with others to solve public problems. This collaborative task begins with creating space for democracy. This book provides a guide for doing so on campus through deliberation and dialogue.At the most basic level, this book describes collaborative and relational work to engage with others and co-create meaning. Specifically, dialogue and deliberation are processes in which a diverse group of people moves toward making a collective decision on a difficult public issue.This primer offers a blueprint for achieving the civic mission of higher education by incorporating dialogue and deliberation into learning at colleges and universities. It opens by providing a conceptual framework, with leading voices in the dialogue and deliberation field providing insights on issues pertinent to college campuses, from free speech and academic freedom to neutrality and the role of deliberation in civic engagement. Subsequent sections describe a diverse range of methods and approaches used by several organizations that pioneered and sustained deliberative practices; outline some of the many ways in which educators and institutions are using dialogue and deliberation in curricular, co-curricular, and community spaces, including venues such as student centers, academic libraries, and residence halls. All of the chapters, including a Resource Section, provide readers with a starting point for conceptualizing and implementing their own deliberation and dialogue initiatives.This book, intended for all educators who are concerned about democracy, imparts the power and impact of public talk, offers the insights and experiences of leading practitioners, and provides the grounding to adopt or adapt the models in their own settings to create educative spaces and experiences that are humanizing, authentic, and productive. It is an important resource for campus leaders, student affairs practitioners, librarians, and centers of institutional diversity, community engagement, teaching excellence and service-learning, as well as faculty, particularly those in the fields of communication studies, education, and political science.Click here for more information on AAC&U and Campus Compact.

Author : Sara M. Evans,Harry C. Boyte
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1992-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226222578

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Free Spaces by Sara M. Evans,Harry C. Boyte Pdf

What are the environments, the public spaces, in which ordinary people become participants in the complex, ambiguous, engaging conversation about democracy: participators in governance rather than spectators or complainers, victims or accomplices? What are the roots, not simply of movements against oppression, but also of those democratic social movements which both enlarge the opportunities for participation and enhance people's ability to participate in the public world? In Free Spaces, Sara M. Evans and Harry C. Boyte argue for a new understanding of the foundations for democratic politics by analyzing the settings in which people learn to participate in democracy. In their new Introduction, the authors link the concept of free spaces to recent theoretical discussions about community, public life, civil society, and social movements.

Author : Teresa Hoskyns
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-17
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317916222

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The Empty Place by Teresa Hoskyns Pdf

In The Empty Place: Democracy and Public Space Teresa Hoskyns explores the relationship of public space to democracy by relating different theories of democracy in political philosophy to spatial theory and spatial and political practice. Establishing the theoretical basis for the study of public space, Hoskyns examines the rise of representative democracy and investigates contemporary theories for the future of democracy, focusing on the Chantal Mouffe's agonistic model and the civil society model of Jürgen Habermas. She argues that these models of participatory democracy can co-exist and are necessarily spatial. The book then provides diverse perspectives on how the role of physical public space is articulated through three modes of participatory spatial practice. The first focuses on issues of participation in architectural practice through a set of projects exploring the ‘open spaces’ of a postwar housing estate in Euston. The second examines the role of space in the construction of democratic identity through a feminist architecture/art collective, producing space through writing, performance and events. The third explores participatory political democratic practice through social forums at global, European and city levels. Hoskyns concludes that participatory democracy requires a conception of public space as the empty place, allowing different models and practices of democracy to co-exist.

Author : Clive Barnett,Murray Low
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Citizenship
ISBN : 1446216306

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Spaces of Democracy by Clive Barnett,Murray Low Pdf

In an historically unprecedented way, democracy is now increasingly seen as a universal model of legitimate rule. Spaces of Democracy addresses the key question: How can democracy be understood in theory and in practise? In three thematically organised sections, Spaces of Democracy uses a critical geographical imagination (informed by thinking on space, place, and scale) to interrogate the latest work in democratic theory.

Author : Terry Tempest Williams
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781608992089

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The Open Space of Democracy by Terry Tempest Williams Pdf

Terry Tempest Williams presents a sharp-edged perspective on the ethics and politics of place, spiritual democracy, and the responsibilities of citizen engagement. By turns elegiac, inspiring, and passionate, The Open Space of Democracy offers a fresh perspective on the critical questions of our time.

Author : Nilüfer Göle
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000567878

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Public Space Democracy by Nilüfer Göle Pdf

This volume takes a global view of the emergence of public protest movements over the last decade, asking whether such movements contribute to the globalization of civil society. Through a variety of studies, organised around the themes of public agency, public norms, public memory and public art, it considers the tendency of political contestations to move beyond national boundaries and create transnational connections. Departing from the approaches of social movements perspectives, it focuses on public space as a site of social "mixity" and opens up a new field for the study of politics and cultural controversies. An analysis of the paradigmatic change in the way in which society is made and politics is conducted, this study of the new enactment of citizenship in public space will appeal to scholars of sociology, anthropology, geography and politics with interests in protest movements and contentious politics, citizenship and the public sphere, and globalization.

Author : Jeffrey Hou,Sabine Knierbein
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-26
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317297437

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City Unsilenced by Jeffrey Hou,Sabine Knierbein Pdf

What do the recent urban resistance tactics around the world have in common? What are the roles of public space in these movements? What are the implications of urban resistance for the remaking of public space in the "age of shrinking democracy"? To what extent do these resistances move from anti- to alter-politics? City Unsilenced brings together a cross-disciplinary group of scholars and scholar-activists to examine the spaces, conditions, and processes in which neoliberal practices have profoundly impacted the everyday social, economic, and political life of citizens and communities around the globe. They explore the commonalities and specificities of urban resistance movements that respond to those impacts. They focus on how such movements make use of and transform the meanings and capacity of public space. They investigate their ramifications in the continued practices of renewing democracies. A broad collection of cases is presented and analyzed, including Movimento Passe Livre (Brazil), Google Bus Blockades San Francisco (USA), the Platform for Mortgage Affected People (PAH) (Spain), the Piqueteros Movement (Argentina), Umbrella Movement (Hong Kong), post-Occupy Gezi Park (Turkey), Sunflower Movement (Taiwan), Occupy Oakland (USA), Syntagma Square (Greece), Researchers for Fair Policing (New York), Urban Movement Congress (Poland), urban activism (Berlin), 1DMX (Mexico), Miyashita Park Tokyo (Japan), 15M Movement (Spain), and Train of Hope and protests against Academic Ball in Vienna (Austria). By better understanding the processes and implications of the recent urban resistances, City Unsilenced contributes to the ongoing debates concerning the role and significance of public space in the practice of lived democracy.

Author : Ragnar Audunson,Herbjørn Andresen,Cicilie Fagerlid,Erik Henningsen,Hans-Christoph Hobohm,Henrik Jochumsen,Håkon Larsen,Tonje Vold
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783110636628

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Libraries, Archives and Museums as Democratic Spaces in a Digital Age by Ragnar Audunson,Herbjørn Andresen,Cicilie Fagerlid,Erik Henningsen,Hans-Christoph Hobohm,Henrik Jochumsen,Håkon Larsen,Tonje Vold Pdf

Libraries, archives and museums have traditionally been a part of the public sphere's infrastructure. They have been so by providing public access to culture and knowledge, by being agents for enlightenment and by being public meeting places in their communities. Digitization and globalization poses new challenges in relation to upholding a sustainable public sphere. Can libraries, archives and museums contribute in meeting these challenges?

Author : James Anderson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2002-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134594542

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Transnational Democracy by James Anderson Pdf

Contemporary globalisation both challenges conventional forms of democracy and is opening up new needs and possibilities for democratisation beyond the territoriality of national states. These issues are explored by an international and multidisciplinary array of experts who focus on federalism, multicultural societies, the European Union and potential agents for the democratisation of global institutions.

Author : Clara Irazábal
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2008-01-17
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781134326242

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Ordinary Places/Extraordinary Events by Clara Irazábal Pdf

Clara Irazábal and her contributors explore the urban history of some of Latin America’s great cities through studies of their public spaces and what has taken place there. The avenues and plazas of Mexico City, Havana, Santo Domingo, Caracas, Bogotaì, SaÞo Paulo, Lima, Santiago, and Buenos Aires have been the backdrop for extraordinary, history-making events. While some argue that public spaces are a prerequisite for the expression, representation and reinforcement of democracy, they can equally be used in the pursuit of totalitarianism. Indeed, public spaces, in both the past and present, have been the site for the contestation by ordinary people of various stances on democracy and citizenship. By exploring the use and meaning of public spaces in Latin American cities, this book sheds light on contemporary definitions of citizenship and democracy in the Americas.

Author : Richard Sennett
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015047725463

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The Spaces of Democracy by Richard Sennett Pdf