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The University of Canberra
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ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Political Science | Political Theory and Political Philosophy | Citizenship | Political Science not elsewhere classified | Environmental Politics | Ethical Use of New Technology (e.g. Nanotechnology, Biotechnology) | Sociology and Social Studies of Science and Technology
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Civics and Citizenship | Political Systems | Social Impacts of Climate Change and Variability | Film and Video Services (excl. Animation and Computer Generated Imagery) | Technological Ethics | Expanding Knowledge through Studies of Human Society |
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Publications
Participation without Deliberation: The Crisis of Venezuelan Democracy
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Date: 2014
Respondents as Interlocutors
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 25-07-2012
Abstract: The epistemic interview is a conversational practice, which aims to generate knowledge by subjecting respondents’ beliefs to dialectical tests of reasons. Developed by Svend Brinkmann, this model draws inspiration from Socratic dialogues where the interviewer asks confronting questions to press respondents to articulate the normative bases of their views. In this article, the author argues that Brinkmann’s model is a valuable methodological innovation but warrants further development. The author suggests that the epistemic interview can be put on a stronger methodological footing when the Socratic model is complemented by developments in democratic theory, particularly its deliberative variety. Translating deliberative democratic virtues to methodological terms addresses some of the epistemic model’s gaps, including an account of the dynamic of knowledge production and the ethical norms that govern this method. To illustrate the practice of epistemic interviewing, the author draws on her experience in interviewing junior military officers.
Improving deliberative participation: connecting mini-publics to deliberative systems
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 10-04-2015
DOI: 10.1017/S1755773915000119
Abstract: This 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.
Asserting disadvantaged communities’ deliberative agency in a media-saturated society
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 07-11-2021
Twelve Key Findings in Deliberative Democracy Research
Publisher: MIT Press - Journals
Date: 07-2017
DOI: 10.1162/DAED_A_00444
Abstract: This essay reflects on the development of the field of deliberative democracy by discussing twelve key findings that capture a number of resolved issues in normative theory, conceptual clarification, and associated empirical results. We argue that these findings deserve to be more widely recognized and viewed as a foundation for future practice and research. We draw on our own research and that of others in the field.
Appreciative and Contestatory Inquiry in Deliberative Forums
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-2013
Linking mini-publics to the deliberative system
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 16-12-2016
Inclusion as Deliberative Agency
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 04-11-2014
Abstract: Mass media play a double-edged role in promoting deliberative democracy: they enforce hierarchies in public discussion by prioritizing the voice of particular groups, yet they remain the best, if not the only institution that can temper inequalities in deliberation, particularly in their capacity to grant ordinary people opportunities for voice in deliberative settings. We put forward two criteria that can assess media’s capacity to enforce inclusiveness in public deliberation. A mediated deliberative system is inclusive if it (1) proactively gives visibility and voice to vulnerable groups to be seen and heard on their terms and (2) allows those with less power to act as “deliberative agents” capable of facing their interlocutors, articulating, defending, and considering one’s views. We provide empirical context to this argument through the case of the Reproductive Health debates in the Philippines, as they played out in two different television genres that differently accentuate deliberative agency.
Deliberative capacity as an indicator of democratic quality: The case of the Philippines
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 21-10-2013
Abstract: The theory and practice of democracy have moved on from the paradigm of electoral democracy to conceptualising alternative models that can facilitate democratic deepening in different contexts. Methodology should follow too. In this piece, I build on Morlino’s framework, which takes a step towards a pluralised assessment of democratic qualities but remains largely hinged on the electoral model of democracy. I suggest that Morlino’s heuristic tools can be further sharpened by incorporating a deliberative democratic criterion. I provide an empirical illustration through the Philippine case – a country that already exhibits formal features of electoral democracy but fails to translate democratic impulses into democratic deepening.
A sequential analysis of democratic deliberation
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 28-09-2012
DOI: 10.1057/AP.2012.15
6 Citizens’ assemblies and the public sphere
Publisher: De Gruyter
Date: 05-06-2023
Commentary on Cristina Lafont, Democracy Without Shortcuts
Publisher: University of Westminster Press
Date: 14-10-2020
DOI: 10.16997/JDD.397
Abstract: In this article, Jürgen Habermas provides a critical reflection of Cristina Lafont´s book Democracy Without Shortcuts, with a specific eye on the epistemic and social-integrative dimensions in deliberative democracy.
Authoritarian Innovations: Crafting support for a less democratic Southeast Asia
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 16-07-2020
Democracy without Shortcuts: Introduction to the Special Issue
Publisher: University of Westminster Press
Date: 14-10-2020
DOI: 10.16997/JDD.413
Ethnography
Publisher: Oxford University PressOxford
Date: 25-10-2022
DOI: 10.1093/OSO/9780192848925.003.0018
Abstract: This 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.
Medical populism
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2019
DOI: 10.1016/J.SOCSCIMED.2018.12.006
Abstract: Medical emergencies are staple features of today's 24/7 culture of breaking news. As politics becomes increasingly stylised, audiences fragmented, and established knowledge claims contested, health crises have become even more vulnerable to politicisation. We offer the vocabulary of medical populism to make sense of this phenomenon. We define medical populism as a political style based on performances of public health crises that pit 'the people' against 'the establishment.' While some health emergencies lead to technocratic responses that soothe anxieties of a panicked public, medical populism thrives by politicising, simplifying, and spectacularising complex public health issues. To demonstrate the concept's analytical value, we offer four illustrative ex les. Thabo Mbeki's HIV denialism and the Philippines' vaccination scandal are ex les of the populist logic of forging vertical isions between the people and the establishment (e.g. the West, big pharma, medical experts). Meanwhile, the Ebola scare and Southeast Asia's drug wars are ex les of horizontal isions that ide the 'virtuous people' against 'dangerous outsiders' (e.g. racial minorities, drug addicts) whose 'threats' have long been overlooked by out-of-touch members of the political and medical establishment. The article concludes by examining the implications of medical populism to health communication and democratic politics.
A New Leaf for Public Deliberation
Publisher: University of Westminster Press
Date: 12-12-2019
DOI: 10.16997/JDD.339
Abstract: The Journal of Public Deliberation is turning over a new leaf. This short introduction maps new directions for the journal and invites readers to continue engaging the vibrant field of deliberative democracy.
Deliberative Democracy and Comparative Democratization Studies
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date: 06-09-2018
DOI: 10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780198747369.013.35
Abstract: This chapter provides an overview of the relationship between the normative theory and empirical research on deliberative democracy and comparative studies of democratization. We begin the chapter by making a case for the role of deliberation in democratic transitions. We provide case studies on each of the roles we identify to illustrate how precisely deliberation unfolds amidst sensitive political contexts. We then chart directions for deliberative democratic scholarship to deepen its engagement with democratization studies. We first focus on how deliberative democracy can speak to current indices that measure the quality of democracy, and then propose ways in which the literature on deliberative systems and sequences can further contribute to challenging our assumptions about what counts as “good” democratic transition.
The Routledge Companion to Media and Poverty
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 26-05-2021
Beyond the spectacle: slow-moving disasters in post-Haiyan Philippines
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-12-2018
Deliberative democratization: a framework for systemic analysis
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-05-2015
The Australian Citizens’ Jury and Global Citizens’ Assembly on Genome Editing
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 20-06-2023
Beyond victims, criminals and survivors: Performing political agency after the world’s strongest storm
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 17-02-2021
Abstract: Victims, criminals, and survivors – these are dominant ways in which the media portrays communities affected by disasters. These portrayals are not benign. They present a deficient form of citizenship that reduces communities to disempowered subjects whose agency can only be realised with humanitarian responses or disciplinary action by the state. In this article, we make a case for portraying disaster-affected communities as political agents who assert their status as co-equal citizens bearing ideas and grievances, capable of justifying their views, and have a stake in shaping the course of post-disaster response. We argue that this portrayal is not only normatively desirable but politically possible. We draw on the case of People Surge – a grassroots alliance formed in the Philippines in 2013 in the aftermath of the world’s strongest storm.
From authoritarian enclave to deliberative space: governance logics in post‐disaster reconstruction
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 27-02-2018
DOI: 10.1111/DISA.12280
Abstract: One would be hard-pressed nowadays to find any practitioners and scholars in the field of post-disaster reconstruction who would argue against the virtues of community participation. In practice, however, the legacy of community participation has been mixed. This paper pursues this line of inquiry by examining the manifestations of participation in three communities affected by Typhoon Haiyan that struck the Philippines on 8 November 2013. The findings suggest that different governance logics emerge in each of the three case studies: authoritarian communitarian and deliberative. These logics promote particular understandings of who should participate in the reconstruction process and the appropriate scope of action for citizens to express discontent, provide feedback, and perform democratic agency. The paper contends that design interventions in participatory procedures, as well as contingencies in wider social contexts, shape the character and legacies of community participation. It concludes by comparing the legacies of these three 'governance enclaves' and imagining possibilities for participatory politics in post-disaster settings.
When participation entrenches authoritarian practice: Ethnographic investigations of post-disaster governance
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2021
Deliberative Mini-Publics: Innovating Citizens in the Democratic Process. Edited by Kimmo Grönlund, André Bächtiger and Maija Setälä. Colchester: ECPR Press, 2014, 255p.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 31-08-2016
Reaching Out to Overcome Political Apathy: Building Participatory Capacity through Deliberative Engagement
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 06-2013
DOI: 10.1111/POLP.12015
Interruptive protests in dysfunctional deliberative systems
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 04-11-2021
Abstract: The field of deliberative democracy has long recognised the role of interruptive protests to make polities more sensitive to good reasons. But how exactly interruptive protests enhance deliberative systems remain an open question. ‘Non-deliberative acts may have deliberative consequences’ is a crucial line of argument in the deliberative systems literature, but the precise character of these consequences is yet to be spelled out. In this article, I describe three ways in which consequences of interruptive protests enhance the deliberative system. I argue that interruptive protests can redistribute (1) voice and visibility, (2) attention, and (3) deliberative agency which, in turn, can lay bare the weaknesses of a dysfunctional deliberative system. The arguments I put forward are based on interpretive case studies focusing on protest movements in the Philippines and Puerto Rico in the aftermath of record-breaking hurricanes. Overall, this paper seeks to clarify the relationship between deliberative politics and protest action, by identifying the distinctive contributions of interruptive protests in redistributing power in dysfunctional deliberative systems.
Surviving Disasters by Suppressing Political Storms: Participation as Knowledge Transfer in Community-Based Disaster Governance
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 10-2020
Abstract: The small island of San Francisco, Cebu in the Philippines has gained global recognition for its community-based disaster management program. By institutionalizing the purok system—a sub-village level of organization—citizens are empowered to plan and implement disaster preparedness programs that fit their specific needs and geographical context. We interrogate the logics that underpin this prize-winning governance innovation. We find that San Francisco—the island where all survive even after the most devastating of disasters—functions through the modality of participation as knowledge transfer. It is underpinned the ethos of solidarity over conflict and takes place in a predetermined rather than citizen-driven space for participatory politics. We situate our arguments in the recent literature on public participation to understand the precise character of participatory politics in the field of disaster response.
Can the poor exercise deliberative agency in a multimedia saturated society? Lessons from Brazil and Lebanon
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2020
Researching Deliberative Democracy
Publisher: Oxford University PressOxford
Date: 25-10-2022
DOI: 10.1093/OSO/9780192848925.003.0001
Abstract: Research on deliberative democracy has been flourishing over the past decades. We now know more about the conditions that enable or hinder inclusive and consequential deliberation, and how different actors, such as politicians, activists, and citizens, perceive and experience deliberative practices. Yet there are still many unknowns that drive research in deliberative democracy, especially as the field continues to develop in new directions and seeks to offer remedies for the problems democracies face today. This chapter unpacks what deliberative democracy research is, what it involves, and how we might go about conducting it. It discusses how the normative theory interacts with empirical research and how the deliberative ideals shape the practice and purpose of research. The chapter makes a case for methodological and epistemological ersity and outlines thirty-one different methods for theorizing, measuring, exploring, or applying deliberative democracy.
Populism in the Philippines
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 21-09-2018
Deliberation in Democracy’s Dark Times
Publisher: University of Westminster Press
Date: 14-12-2018
DOI: 10.16997/JDD.304
Abstract: This 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.’
‘We haven’t even buried the dead yet’: Ethics of discursive contestation in a crisis situation
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 05-07-2016
Abstract: Disasters are often described as exceptional moments that demand global solidarity. A ‘state of humanitarian exception’ emerges as citizens foreground norms of compassion and cooperation while contestatory discourse – the argumentative, blame-seeking and fault-finding forms of speech – are stigmatized as inappropriate interventions in a society seeking to recover from a distressful crisis situation. This article critically unpacks these representations of post-disaster situations empirically and normatively. By analysing the discussions in the public sphere over the first 100 days after Typhoon Haiyan battered Central Philippines, the article examines the moral force behind the ‘discourse of compassion’ and its ‘ethical boundary work’ that places the ‘discourse of contestation’ outside the scope of acceptable conduct. It proposes that the discourse of compassion’s ethical boundary work is only democratically acceptable when one takes a short view of a crisis situation. Drawing on deliberative democracy theory, the article argues for the importance of contestatory discourse in fostering inclusive discourse formation and ensuring that the state of humanitarian exception does not become the rule.
Who Laughs at a Rape Joke? Illiberal Responsiveness in Rodrigo Duterte’s Philippines
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2018
Populism in Global Perspective
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 29-12-2020
Norms
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 11-10-2018
Magnetic biochar catalysts from anaerobic digested sludge: Production, application and environment impact
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2019
DOI: 10.1016/J.ENVINT.2019.02.032
Abstract: Regulated disposal or re-utilization of dewatered sludge is of economic benefits and can avoid secondary contamination to the environment however, feasible and effective management strategies are still lacking. In this study, a peroxydisulfate/zero-valent iron (PDS-ZVI) system is proposed to destroy proteins in soluble extracellular polymeric substances (S-EPS) and loosely bound EPS (LB-EPS) in anaerobic digested sludge (ADS) to improve the dewaterability. Moreover, ADS derived biochars supported via iron oxides (Fe-ADSBC) were generated by dewatering and thermal annealing. Intriguingly, the iron species was discovered to gradually transform from Fe
Systems
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 11-10-2018
Introducing the <i>Journal of Deliberative Democracy</i>
Publisher: University of Westminster Press
Date: 26-08-2020
DOI: 10.16997/JDD.405
Abstract: This editorial introduction provides a statement of our vision for the Journal of Deliberative Democracy and an overview of the Special Issue on the Frontiers of Deliberative Democracy.
Deliberative democracy in the age of serial crisis
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 06-08-2022
Abstract: What is the state of deliberative democracy in the age of serial crisis? This survey article provides a descriptive and reflective assessment of recent developments in the field in the light of a political context in which there is growing incivility, political polarization, normalization of disinformation and the growing appeal of finding simplistic solutions to complex problems. We describe deliberative democracy as a field of research that has evolved to become (a) assertive in practice, (b) precise in theory, (c) global in reach and (d) ambitious in empirical research. For each of these facets of deliberative democracy, we reflect on the extent to which the field has responded to conceptual, empirical and political challenges, and identify its shortcomings, which warrant further attention. We conclude by drawing attention to research imperatives that the field needs to address to remain relevant in a highly unequal, climate-challenged and increasingly fragile global public sphere.
Democracy in a Time of Misery
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date: 22-08-2019
DOI: 10.1093/OSO/9780198842484.001.0001
Abstract: Misery rarely features in conversations about democracy. And yet, in the past decades, global audiences are increasingly confronted with spectacles of human pain. The world is more stressed, worried, and sad today than we have ever seen it, a Gallup poll finds. Does democracy stand a chance in a time of widespread suffering? Drawing on three years of field research among communities affected by Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines, this book offers ethnographic portraits of how collective suffering, trauma, and dispossession enlivens democratic action. It argues that emotional forms of communication create publics that assert voice and visibility at a time when attention is the scarcest resource, whilst also creating hierarchies of misery among suffering communities. Democracy in a Time of Misery investigates the ethical and political value of democracy in the most trying of times and reimagines how the virtues of deliberative practice can be valued in the context of widespread suffering.
Power in Deliberative Democracy
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2019
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