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Category Archives: Participation
The Social Psychology of Citizenship, Participation and Social Exclusion
From the accumulated research on citizenship in social psychology outlined above, we know that articulating a voice within a broader community requires some form of ontological claim: a sense of who we are; our entitlement to speak; and why we … Continue reading
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Citizen Participation, Agency and Voice
Citizen participation, by now one of the main topics on the institutional agenda in many European countries, involves different fields of public action, mostly on a local level – social inclusion, urban renewal, development, the environment, health/social services, etc. It … Continue reading
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Untangling Complexity – Designing for Shared Understanding
The next phase of the digital revolution will be defined by products and services that facilitate shared understanding, allowing concerted participation around complex issues. In working to show the way, civic designers will need to call upon the powers of … Continue reading
Posted in Complexity, Participation, Systems, Understanding
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Vers une Démocratie d’Enquête
Dans son discours du 8 octobre dernier, M. Bartolone, le président de l’Assemblée nationale, l’a annoncé : « Nous expérimenterons […] pour la première fois une consultation numérique des citoyens sur un projet de loi. Ce ne sera pas simplement … Continue reading
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Resilience Management in Social-ecological Systems: A working hypothesis for a Participatory Approach
Approaches to natural resource management are often based on a presumed ability to predict probabilistic responses to management and external drivers such as climate. They also tend to assume that the manager is outside the system being managed. However, where … Continue reading
Democratizing the Classroom: Sequencing Discussions and Assignments to Promote Student Ownership of the Course
This article explores a radical pedagogical method for democratizing the classroom that generates rich, engaged, student-led discussions. The approach is grounded in the notion that democratic participation in the classroom is a worthy goal of radical pedagogy, that students must … Continue reading
Posted in Classroom, Democracy, Democratic education, Participation, Student
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Mobility in Urban Social Events – Towards Organizational Transvergence
The paper explores the emergence of territories that are constituted through spontaneous assembling of self-organized communities resulting in what we term urban social events. A concrete event is employed, namely Embros, an open occupation of an abandoned public building in … Continue reading
Posted in Community, Creativity, Participation, Territories, Transformative organizing
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Overcoming ‘Tragedies of the Commons’ with a Self-Regulating, Participatory Market Society
Our society is fundamentally changing. These days, almost nothing works without a computer chip. Processing power doubles every 18 months and will exceed the capabilities of human brains in about ten years from now. Some time ago, IBM’s Big Blue … Continue reading
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Children’s life world as a perspective on their citizenship
The latest childhood studies present children’s citizenship as a process of engaging in matters related to children themselves in their everyday lives. However, only a few studies have been conducted on what those issues are and what they actually tell … Continue reading
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Tanzânia – Nova Constituição com Participação Direta do Povo
Desde ano passado, grupos distritais, organizações da sociedade e ex-governantes opinam sobre como devem ser legislação, estrutura da gestão e políticas públicas do país africano. No forno da Tanzânia, uma nova constituição começa a ser cozinhada e, para sua elaboração, … Continue reading
