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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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Active and Inclusive Citizenship for Women: Democratic Considerations for Fostering Lifelong Education.
TL;DR: In this article, a critical feminist theoretical framework is used to explore the challenges of creating democratic learning spaces that will foster active and inclusive citizenship for women, and three democratic considerations are addressed to assess how adult educators can create more inclusive opportunities for lifelong education for women.
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Doxa and deliberation
TL;DR: In this article, the author interprets Bourdieu's theory of the linguistic habitus to prompt an even more radical critique of deliberative democracy than these theorists acknowledge, one to which the proposed solutions fail adequately to respond.
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Environmental Communication: Why This Crisis Discipline Should Facilitate Environmental Democracy
TL;DR: The authors concur with Cox's claim that environmental communication (EC) like conservation biology is a crisis discipline, and they take Cox's essay as a provocation to radically challenge magical notions of scientific objectivity.
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A Message in a Bottle: Bearing Witness as a Mode of Transnational Practice
TL;DR: In this article, a transnational mode of ethico-political labour, an arduous working-through produced out of the struggles of groups and persons who engage in testimonial tasks in order to confront corresponding perils produced by instances of situational or structural violence, is proposed.
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Migrants as activist citizens in Italy: understanding the new cycle of struggles
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyse a series of migrant mobilizations which took place in 2010 and 2011 throughout Italy: the unrest in Rosarno, the migrant general strikes on 1 March, the campaign and the strike against undeclared work in Nardo and the occupation of a construction crane in Brescia.
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Tweets and the Streets: Social Media and Contemporary Activism
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