Sustainable citizenship for a technological world: negotiating deliberative dialectics

Kurian, Priya; Munshi, Debashish; Bartlett, Robert V.

doi:10.1080/13621025.2014.905284

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“…While liberal citizenship emphasises maximising individual liberty [7,8], republican citizenship in contrast places emphasis on responsibility and civic virtue [9,10]. However, it is increasingly observed that there are manifestations of different kinds of citizenships concurrently existing within communities that are complex and diverse [5]. This is also true within the paradigm of green citizenship.…”

Section: Theorisations Of Green Citizenshipmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This perspective includes more actors, arenas and complex clusters of relationships. Kurian et al [5] propose moving beyond dichotomies such as rights and responsibilities, public and private, etc., in their conceptualisation of sustainable citizenship. For example they argue that the focus on either rights or responsibilities in classical theorisations of citizenship is too simplistic and that both rights and responsibilities are important in the context of sustainability.…”

Section: Theorisations Of Green Citizenshipmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Micheletti and Stole [6] state that sustainable citizenship has the potential to challenge and change the underlying structural causes that have caused global environmental destruction and social injustice while Kurian et al [5] calls for a commitment to deliberative democratic politics that allow a clash of ideas leading to the emergence of a deliberated set of shared values (p. 437). This requires moving beyond traditional sites and norms of citizenship and participating in actions both in the private and public sphere that promotes sustainability and social justice.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…There are considerable challenges in leading lifestyles that promote and embody sustainability within a system that is environmentally exploitative. Yet, it is noteworthy that there are groups of young people who are managing to carve a space for themselves as "sustainable citizens" [5,6]. It is important to look at the experiences and actions of such young people to understand the factors and conditions that lead to and sustain behaviour conducive to sustainable lives.…”

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Shaping of sustainable citizenship among young people of Kulhudhuffushi, Maldives and Hamilton, New Zealand: context, conditions and experiences

Jaufar

2021

Sustain Earth

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Background Engagement of young people is essential for achieving sustainable outcomes both locally and in the global context. Democratic processes appear to be the most facilitative mechanism to hold governments to account with governments becoming more receptive to pro-environmental policies when there is input from citizens to do so. While there is concern about a general lack of participation in traditional forms of political processes, particularly among young people, there are those who are carving a space for themselves as active citizens within a system that is often times contradictory to their lives. In this context, this paper looks at the lived experiences of a small sample of active young people in Kulhudhuffushi island of Maldives and Hamilton, New Zealand to examine the contexts and conditions that lead to and sustain these forms of sustainable citizenship. Results In-depth interviews conducted with young people in both locations found similarities within both groups in terms of motivating factors, knowledge and support networks, lifestyle practices, and conceptualisations of citizenship. Early exposure to natural environments, role models and participation in actions and networks helped to create active citizenship, while lack of conducive spaces and cultural attitudes impeded activism. Conclusion The results show that providing opportunities for early interactions with nature, and participation in actions and activist networks is vital for fostering and sustaining active citizenship. Additionally local and national groups and institutions need to facilitate spaces conducive for organising and alternative narratives, as well as promoting a counter culture to the current carbon heavy system. The findings contribute to literature on listening to youth voices in environmental and climate activism.

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Section: Theorisations Of Green Citizenshipmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Theorisations Of Green Citizenshipmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Theorisations Of Green Citizenshipmentioning

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2021

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“…They include formal and informal discursive arenas, from everyday talk (Mansbridge, ) to deliberative fora explicitly set up to bring different parties together to debate a particular issue (Hendriks, ; Marques & Maia, ; Parkinson, ). Kurian, Munshi, and Bartlett () suggest that deliberation is a dialectical process, where actors contest each other's positions in relation to the “constitutional dialectics” of a particular matter (e.g. public/private or state/non‐state in the context of sustainable citizenship), in the process discovering not only areas of conflict, but also shared values that might form the basis for agreement (Jacobs et al, ).…”

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The Role of Public Relations in Deliberative Systems

Edwards

2015

J Commun

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This article reframes public relations' contribution to democracy in light of the recent turn to deliberative systems in democratic theory. I consider the problematic that public relations poses to normative models of deliberative democracy, and how that problematic has been addressed in public relations theory thus far. I suggest that deliberative systems provides a more robust basis for theorising public relations' role in deliberation and propose an analytical approach for understanding the complex and sometimes contradictory role of public relations in deliberative democracy. The framework provides a starting point for locating public relations' engagement in deliberative systems and evaluating its effects.Keywords: public relations, organizational communication, deliberation, deliberative systems, democracy The Role of Public Relations in Deliberative SystemsThe role of public relations in deliberative democracy has long been a focus of debate. The instrumental approach to public relations poses a problem for understanding it as a positive force in democratic deliberation. Deliberative theorists emphasise the importance of rational, reasonable, open and inclusive debates among citizens to reaching legitimate decisions about how society should be governed (Chambers, 2012;Dryzek, 2000). These requirements distinguish deliberation from being 'mere talk' and from distortion through manipulation or coercion (Parkinson, 2012;Schudson, 1997). They are secured through a PUBLIC RELATIONS IN DELIBERATIVE SYSTEMS 3 number of normative conditions including the need to set aside vested interests, to prioritise rational argument and to include all those affected by the issue under discussion (Dryzek & Niemeyer, 2010;Habermas, 1996;Jacobs, Cook, & Delli Carpini, 2010). Such conditions inevitably lead to critiques of public relations, given that the motivation to use it is usually associated with some form of organizational self-interest (e.g. improving reputation, relationships or sales), and that emotional appeals are widely used in campaigns alongside, or instead of, rational argument. Combined with evidence of poor public relations practice, the profession is easily framed as the cause of various pathologies of deliberation (Bohman, 2000;Stokes, 1998): government communicators may be seen to mislead the public about policy decisions; issues management campaigns may mislead policymakers about public opinion; and media relations practitioners may manipulate the media agenda such that media discourses represent 'pseudo-preferences' of the public rather than real ones. More generally, the profession could be accused of engaging in 'plebiscitary rhetoric ' (Chambers, 2009, p. 328), where the aim is to win the argument and gain power rather than reflexively engage with other actors in order to pursue a legitimate consensus.Attempts to reclaim the place of public relations in democracy emphasise its ability to generate social capital that connects individuals, groups and organizations, its value to activist groups, ...

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Educating for participatory active citizenship: an example from the ecological activist field

Cruz

Malafaia

Silva

et al. 2023

Environ Dev Sustain

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Based on a short-term ethnography with a grassroots group of young environmental activists in the city of Porto, Portugal, this paper describes and problematizes their use of participatory methodologies to engage individual, community and organizational actors in tackling the problems of global climate change. By initiating what they call a “friendship network” that seeks to achieve democratic and participatory forms of activism, the group brings together both experienced and circumstantial activists (Ollis & Hamel-Green in Aust Adult Learn 55:202–219, 2015) in order to foster plural and situated learning (Lave & Wenger, Situated learning legitimate peripheral participation, 1991). The group does so by promoting the commitment of all actors (including opposite-minded ones) to the co-creation of a 4-day-municipal event on the theme of environmental sustainability. In order to gain a deeper understanding of the strategic mechanism of the group and their actions as a nucleus, we firstly examine some of the groups’ views on civic and political participation (Stack, in Citizenship Studies 16:871–885, 2012) and, secondly, describe and discuss the methodologies they intentionally use to put citizenship-in-action and to foster the activation of ‘standby citizens’ (Amna & Ekman, in Amnå, E., & Ekman, J., Eur Political Sci Rev 6:261–281, 2014). This ethnography enabled us to learn how the group strives to achieve its goals by placing itself in-between the institutional sphere and the public realm: the ethnographer had the opportunity to observe their attempts to, on the one hand, influence decision-making by acquiring a degree of insider status in institutions that legislate and, on the other hand, to engage with large publics, encouraging citizens’ voices and involvement in processes of co-participation focused on promoting ecological consciousness and political change.

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Sustainable citizenship for a technological world: negotiating deliberative dialectics

Cited by 21 publications

References 57 publications

Shaping of sustainable citizenship among young people of Kulhudhuffushi, Maldives and Hamilton, New Zealand: context, conditions and experiences

Shaping of sustainable citizenship among young people of Kulhudhuffushi, Maldives and Hamilton, New Zealand: context, conditions and experiences

The Role of Public Relations in Deliberative Systems

Educating for participatory active citizenship: an example from the ecological activist field

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