This vital matter of public concern, with far-reaching ramifications for our relationship to nature should be subject to greater democratic debate.
Finding ways to deal with friction zones in public spaces such as parks is highly pertinent for both urban democracy and urban sustainability. Some friction is central to genuine democracy, whereas too little or too much is not.
The pogrom was not only publicly visible for the local population – as had always been the case with earlier instances of anti-minority violence – but for everybody who could find a screen to watch it on throughout India.
How people sharing personal experiences through a museum digital storytelling project use ideas of courtesy instead of rights to revise institutional legitimacy; a hopeful kind of modesty which might come in handy in reimagining a public service ethos in the face of the UK’s public sector cuts.
Calls for democracy echo around us, but what kind of democracy are people calling for? Some focus on the accountability of government to represent the people, while others are demanding new forms of access to democratic participation. Both of these demands hinge on another idea: publicness - that
The point of looking at how consensus is actually established in practice is to see that despite the fundamental difference in logic, consensus and voting share a problem that may be more evident in voting but which - it seems - is also unavoidable in consensus: there is always an element of coerc
