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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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Democratic Politics and Survey Research
TL;DR: This article identified a number of problems with the contemporary identification of survey research and public opinion, and pointed out that surveys are said to normalize or rationalize opinion, to prune or normalize opinion.
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The moral geography of the Earth system.
Abstract: Human impacts on the Earth system have profound moral consequences. The uneven generation and distribution of harms, and the acceleration of human forces now altering how the Earth system functions, also trouble moral accounts of belonging. This article shows how moral geography can be renewed in this context. It begins by identifying how human impacts on the Earth system are shifting global norms of sustainability, such as in calls to enhance planetary stewardship and to transform social values. These shifts are important in themselves, but also reveal a deeper challenge to moral geography and the counterfactual heuristics traditionally relied on to understand belonging. In response, many critical scholars have rethought the terms and conditions of belonging in the Anthropocene in reference to considerations of novelty, time, ontology, and agency. I argue that these strategies face difficulties that are not only analytical, but which also arise from new practices of belonging that accept critiques yet reach markedly different conclusions. I examine two cases of this kind. The first treats human forces as a geological sphere: the technosphere. The second incorporates the planetary boundaries framework of Earth system science as the basis for a grundnorm (a norm basic to all others) in international programmes of environmental law and governance. Examining these two practices within the broader context of shifts in sustainability reveals a new politics of naturalisation unperturbed by critical scholarship on the Anthropocene. By contrast, a renewed moral geography can identify how earlier norms of sustainable development, especially the promotion of economic instruments to secure environmental relief, now structure the incorporation of Earth system science in sustainability transitions. Retaining the structure of sustainability and accepting critiques of the Anthropocene are now giving rise to a new form of neoliberalism without nature.
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From Counter-Power to Counter-Pepe: The Vagaries of Participatory Epistemology in a Digital Age
TL;DR: The authors reconstructs the evolution of societal and journalistic meta-discourse about the participation of ordinary citizens in the news production process through a genealogy of what they call participatory epistemology, defined here as a form of journalistic knowledge in which professional expertise is modified through public interaction.
Dissertation
Inquiry-based professional learning of English-literature teachers: negotiating dialogic potential
TL;DR: The authors investigated teachers' professional learning in a small group of English-literature teachers at Eastern Girls' College, in Melbourne, Australia, learning about literary theory over a period of fourteen months.
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Stakeholder theory: A deliberative perspective
Ulf Henning Richter,Kevin E. Dow +1 more
TL;DR: The authors apply Habermas' language-pragmatic approach (which places strong emphasis on dialogue, participation, and procedural justice) to extend stakeholder theory by advancing seven sets of normative axioms.
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