Practices of Engagement: Comparing and Integrating Deliberation and Organizing

Rusch, Lara; Swarts, Heidi

doi:10.1080/10705422.2014.985411

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“…The coalition to save the HCSO and the work and perspectives of one of its key member organization, the CPA, provide an example of what Rusch and Swarts (2015) described as a melding of institution-based community organizing and "deliberative practice," both of which "are motivated by a belief in the necessity of democratic participation for legitimate policy outcomes" (p.13). As these authors further noted, "Both approaches to participation [institution-based community organizing and deliberative practice] are also, at their core, about supporting democratic social change.…”

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Closing the Loophole: A Case Study of Organizing for More Equitable and Affordable Access to Health Care in San Francisco

Fang

Minkler

Ivey

et al. 2018

Journal of Community Practice

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This paper presents in-depth case study of a successful hybrid political and community organizing campaign to ensure equitable access to health care through the perspective of a grassroots San Francisco community-based organization, the Chinese Progressive Association (CPA), which has been organizing low-income Chinese immigrants for over four decades. First, it outlines the Health Care Security Ordinance (HCSO), which, since its passage in 2006, has established a near-universal health care access program, helping to make health care accessible and affordable to individuals living and working in San Francisco. Then it presents the campaign to save the HCSO, focusing on CPA's participation in the HCSO coalition. Finally, it discusses health care as it relates to the San Francisco's affordability crisis and the political economic context in which it is taking place. Despite the limitations inherent in small case studies like this one, it nevertheless provides a valuable opportunity to better understand how one politically progressive city attempted to address the problem of grossly inequitable health care access through the lens of community organizing, advocacy, and coalition building. San Francisco, like many major American cities today, is being confronted with rapid gentrification and growing economic inequality-the backdrop to the HCSO. Through innovative experiments in social responsibility like the HCSO, however, the city has made leaps in health care access. It concludes with lessons learned from local organizing and advocacy to save the HCSO as these may inform other local efforts to promote health care for all.

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Closing the Loophole: A Case Study of Organizing for More Equitable and Affordable Access to Health Care in San Francisco

Fang

Minkler

Ivey

et al. 2018

Journal of Community Practice

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“…Urban governments which ìin their strategies for the construction and consolidation of political territories... tend to promote settings or opportunities for collective action of an interactive, negotiated type.î Consultations and contracts can ìmove away from situations that block decision-makingî and present ìpossibilities for generating choices that will be more efficient because they have been made jointlyî (Bobbio, 2000;as cited in Pinson, 2002, p. 480). The strategic intervention links deliberative processes like study circles to organizing campaigns involving community mobilization (Rusch & Swarts, 2015). The strategic intervention can play several key roles.…”

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From the “Greta Thunberg Effect” to Green Conversion of Universities: The Reconstructive Praxis of Discursive Mobilizations

Feldman

2021

Discourse and Communication for Sustainable Education

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This paper investigates how one could envision a discursive mobilization process to transform protest movements into agents that help reconstruct the universities as agents supporting material mobilizations leading to ecological reconstruction. After reviewing universities’ ecological footprints, the author shows how theories of mobilization and conjunctures could contribute to understanding how this transformation could occur. Discursive mobilizations advance values or ideas but stop short of innovation and production system changes. Material mobilizations affect deployment of human, technological, industrial and financial resources. Conjunctures involve linkages of political activity to spaces implicated in both kinds of mobilizations in a given historical time frame. The study shows many nations having both extensive climate activism and concentrations of university students creating a possibility for greening education centers based on various models for doing so. Yet, two key problems emerge. First, some nations lag in climate activism. Second, interest in a Green Deal or Green New Deal does not always match the level of attention to leading activist Greta Thunberg. The paper illustrates how such problems can be addressed by university-based campaigns linking activist cohorts, mobilization supporting green conversion of higher education and solidaristic, mutual aid exchanges among regions.

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“…The aim will be to mobilise strategic interventions. These are Innovative way of utilising interventions to link deliberative processes like study circles and organising campaigns involving community mobilisation (Rusch & Swarts, 2015). The strategic intervention can play several key roles in promoting green universities and communities by addressing various potential barriers to action and social change.…”

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Integrating Sustainability-Oriented Ecologies of Practice Across the Learning Cycle: Supporting Transformative Behaviours in Transgenerational, Transnational and Transdisciplinary Spaces

Adefila

Chen

Dang

et al. 2021

Discourse and Communication for Sustainable Education

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The article examines the complexities associated with effectively and comprehensively tackling the climate change crisis. Focusing on the need for education, the authors discuss a model of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) that supports the development of competencies, coalition building and the capacity to support and maintain positive action. Drawing upon principles highlighted by the United Nations, the paper outlines the breadth and depth of knowledge required to support transformative ESD. Firstly enhancing comprehensive knowledge that develops cognitive, affective and axiological dimensions and proficiency. This enhances critical engagement with information and enables individuals to act responsibly and align with others in coalition building. The second element refers to collaborative partnership that is crucial for changes to be effective. This has been one of the most challenging barriers preventing positive action on the catastrophe pf climate change. Finally, the paper emphasizes the need to develop the competencies for supporting collective action, which will enable sustained action across transnational, transdisciplinary and transnational boundaries.

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Practices of Engagement: Comparing and Integrating Deliberation and Organizing

Cited by 10 publications

References 36 publications

Closing the Loophole: A Case Study of Organizing for More Equitable and Affordable Access to Health Care in San Francisco

Closing the Loophole: A Case Study of Organizing for More Equitable and Affordable Access to Health Care in San Francisco

From the “Greta Thunberg Effect” to Green Conversion of Universities: The Reconstructive Praxis of Discursive Mobilizations

Integrating Sustainability-Oriented Ecologies of Practice Across the Learning Cycle: Supporting Transformative Behaviours in Transgenerational, Transnational and Transdisciplinary Spaces

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