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Between Facts and Norms: Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy
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This article is published in Review of Metaphysics.The article was published on 1997-02-01 and is currently open access. It has received 2568 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Democracy.read more
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Liberty, equality and the rights of cultures: the marching controversy at Drumcree
TL;DR: In this article, the authors apply Jurgen Habermas's discourse theory of rights to the Drumcree controversy in Northern Ireland to assess which of the conflicting claims should take priority.
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Teaching and Learning as a Pedagogic Pilgrimage: Cultivating Faith, Hope and Imagination
Nuraan Davids,Yusef Waghid +1 more
TL;DR: Papastephanou as mentioned in this paper covers a broad range of topical and exciting issues as diverse as faith, hope, wonder, imagination and posthuman ethics of care in teaching and learning.
Webs of Resistance: The Citizen Online Journalism of the Nigerian Digital Diaspora
TL;DR: In this article, the authors chronicle the emergence and flowering of the citizen and alternative online journalism of the Nigerian diasporic public sphere located primarily in the United States using case-study research, and highlight instances where these geographically distant citizen media sites shaped and influenced both the national politics and policies of the homeland and the media practices of the domestic media formation.
Transforming commodification : sustainability and the regulation of production and consumption networks
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyze the emergence in the 1990s and 2000s of novel forms of sustainable commodities, such as fair trade coffee, certified wood, ethical investment funds, or higher density housing, and suggest the use of strategic relational cultural political economy as a theory of regulation.
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Can collaborative planning go beyond locally focused notions of the “public interest”? The potential of Habermas’ concept of “generalizable interest” in pluralist and trans-scalar planning discourses:
TL;DR: In this paper, the concept of public interest in planning from the point of view of Patsy Healey's collaborative planning theory was explored from the perspective of Habeabe and Healey.
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The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom
TL;DR: In this comprehensive social theory of the Internet and the networked information economy, Benkler describes how patterns of information, knowledge, and cultural production are changing--and shows that the way information and knowledge are made available can either limit or enlarge the ways people can create and express themselves.
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Varieties of Participation in Complex Governance
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors develop a framework for understanding the range of institutional possibilities for public participation, including who participates, how participants communicate with one another and make decisions together, and how discussions are linked with policy or public action.
Deliberative democracy or agonistic pluralism
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the current debate about the nature of democracy and discuss the main theses of the approach called "deliberative democracy" in its two main versions, the one put forward by John Rawls, and the other one put forth by Jurgen Habermas.
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The New Public Sphere: Global Civil Society, Communication Networks, and Global Governance
TL;DR: Public diplomacy, as the diplomacy of the public, not of the government, intervenes in this global public sphere, laying the ground for traditional forms of diplomacy to act beyond the strict negotiation of power relationships by building on shared... as mentioned in this paper.
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Tweets and the Streets: Social Media and Contemporary Activism
TL;DR: Tweets and the Streets as mentioned in this paper examines the relationship between the rise of social media and the emergence of new forms of protest, arguing that activists' use of Twitter and Facebook does not fit with the image of a "cyberspace" detached from physical reality.
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