Deliberative discussion and languages in the world social forum process
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Deliberative discussion and languages in the world social forum process. / Doerr, Nicole.
Handbook on World Social Forum Activism. Taylor and Francis/Routledge, 2015. p. 320-338.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Deliberative discussion and languages in the world social forum process
AU - Doerr, Nicole
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2015, Taylor & Francis.
PY - 2015/1/1
Y1 - 2015/1/1
N2 - How do activists in groups associated with the World Social Forum (WSF) and European Social Forum (ESF) processes deal with the perceived trade-offs between participatory, deliberative democracy and efficiency in multilingual meetings? Scholars who have studied practices of democracy in social movements have found that even at the national level, groups may perceive practices of participatory democracy and “deliberative talk” as time inefficient: “Participatory democracy, no surprise, usually takes longer than adversarial decision making. It demands more patience, energy, and time on the part of its participants” (Polletta 2002: 12). Researchers who study feminist experiments with participatory democracy have proposed that decision making should be particularly slow, consensual, and inclusive in those discussion moments in which it touches upon “foundational” questions, issues, or rules of working together (Chambers 1995: 173). This should be especially true for movements that seek to overcome social inequalities (see, for example, Snyder 2006; Wood 2005).
AB - How do activists in groups associated with the World Social Forum (WSF) and European Social Forum (ESF) processes deal with the perceived trade-offs between participatory, deliberative democracy and efficiency in multilingual meetings? Scholars who have studied practices of democracy in social movements have found that even at the national level, groups may perceive practices of participatory democracy and “deliberative talk” as time inefficient: “Participatory democracy, no surprise, usually takes longer than adversarial decision making. It demands more patience, energy, and time on the part of its participants” (Polletta 2002: 12). Researchers who study feminist experiments with participatory democracy have proposed that decision making should be particularly slow, consensual, and inclusive in those discussion moments in which it touches upon “foundational” questions, issues, or rules of working together (Chambers 1995: 173). This should be especially true for movements that seek to overcome social inequalities (see, for example, Snyder 2006; Wood 2005).
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DO - 10.4324/9781315634197-29
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SP - 320
EP - 338
BT - Handbook on World Social Forum Activism
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