Music Together, Music Apart: On Democratic Communities

2019 ◽  
Vol 144 (1) ◽  
pp. 191-204 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Adlington
Keyword(s):  
Democratic Communities

Defending the Case for Liberal Anationalism

2012 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-118
Author(s):  
Theodora Kostakopoulou
Keyword(s):  
Human Dignity ◽  
Democratic Politics ◽  
Political Life ◽  
International Terrorism ◽  
Human Welfare ◽  
Liberal Nationalism ◽  
Democratic Communities ◽  
The Way

Nationalism appears to be so entrenched in political life and discourse, that its illiberal face is often deemed to be an exception and unfortunate coincidence triggered by international terrorism. Alternatively, it may be depicted as the result of ill-thought policies which can be reversible. In this paper, I argue that liberal nationalism is conceptually flawed and politically illiberal. Illiberal tendencies are an integral part of it and these cannot be corrected by ‘taming’ unruly nationalism or by articulating ‘benign’ adaptations of it. Because the liberal and illiberal faces are interwoven in complex ways, my suggestion is to look far ahead and beyond it. The territory may be uncharted, but a commitment to a pro-human welfare orientation could open the way for separating liberalism from nationalism and aligning the former with critical democratic politics. The challenge, as I see it, is to articulate a liberal anationalism which by affirming equal human dignity and the importance of non-domination could sustain inclusionary and democratic communities.

Teacher Collaborative Inquiry and Democracy in Schools

2017 ◽  
pp. 255-276
Author(s):  
Kristy Cooper Stein ◽  
Taeyeon Kim
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Organizational Change ◽  
School Improvement ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Collaborative Inquiry ◽  
School Leaders ◽  
Democratic Leadership ◽  
Democratic School ◽  
Democratic Communities ◽  
Practical Recommendations

This chapter presents possibilities and challenges of teacher collaborative inquiry from the perspective of democratic leadership. Under the pressure of complexity in today's education, building democratic communities is an important strategy for helping leaders and teachers solve problems and create change. Given this, teacher collaborative inquiry can be a useful intervention for democratic school improvement. By examining this premise theoretically with the concept of Woods' (2005) democratic leadership, the authors explore possibilities for how teacher collaborative inquiry could foster democracy. To link the theories to reality, the authors present two case studies of teacher collaborative inquiry groups in one high school, which reveal challenges that school leaders will need to consider when enacting inquiry for democratic purposes. The chapter closes with practical recommendations for diverse leaders seeking guidance for creating democracy in the pursuit of organizational change.

Ideology, Institutions, Power, and Militarized Disputes

2021 ◽  
pp. 108-129
Author(s):  
Erik Voeten
Keyword(s):  
Territorial Dispute ◽  
Regression Analyses ◽  
Major Power ◽  
Militarized Disputes ◽  
Intergovernmental Organization ◽  
Interstate Disputes ◽  
Ideological Differences ◽  
Democratic Communities ◽  
Militarized Conflict ◽  
Militarized Interstate Disputes

This chapter examines if and how intergovernmental organization (IGO) memberships shape participation in militarized interstate disputes. Theorists have argued that IGOs solve informational problems, socialize states, or constitute democratic communities that prevent a resort to violence. The distributive ideological approach suggests that IGOs institutionalize ideologically cohesive coalitions that ameliorate conflicts with insiders but can exacerbate conflict with outsiders. The effect of IGOs on militarized disputes should be present only if the distributional stakes have global ideological implications as opposed to when disputes are purely over particularistic stakes, such as territory. Regression analyses support this insight. Both ideological differences and IGO membership patterns affect dispute participation in dyads that include a major power but not among neighboring states or states involved in a territorial dispute. One implication is that IGO memberships affect the distribution of militarized disputes, but it is unclear whether IGOs in the aggregate reduce militarized conflict.

Democratic Communities, Equity, and Excellence: A Deweyan Reframing of Educational Policy Analysis

1994 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 233-248 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Kahne
Keyword(s):  
Policy Analysis ◽  
Educational Policy ◽  
Academic Excellence ◽  
Careful Attention ◽  
Democratic Community ◽  
Educational Policy Analysis ◽  
Policy Analysts ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Democratic Communities ◽  
The Impact

Concern for academic excellence and equity often structures the work of mainstream policy analysts. These matters certainly deserve careful attention, but this focus often obscures many other important concerns. In particular, analysts are often inattentive to the relation between educational policy and the creation of democratic communities. To highlight the impact of this omission, I examine mainstream debates over tracking policy. While exploring these debates, I consider how placing greater attention on Deweyan notions of democratic community might enrich policy dialogues and alter the form and focus of mainstream policy discussions.

Self-Regulation in Democratic Communities

1999 ◽  
Vol 99 (5) ◽  
pp. 469-490 ◽  
Author(s):  
Constance M. Yowell ◽  
Mark A. Smylie
Keyword(s):  
Self Regulation ◽  
Democratic Communities

Moral Education Through Democratic Communities

1991 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 108-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Snarey ◽  
Kurt Keljo
Keyword(s):  
Moral Education ◽  
Democratic Communities

Sustaining Democracy

2021 ◽  
pp. 65-96
Author(s):  
Jennifer Forestal
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Sustainable Communities ◽  
Digital Environment ◽  
Communities Of Interest ◽  
Digital Environments ◽  
Cooperative Activity ◽  
Democratic Communities ◽  
Democratic Spaces

Democratic spaces must also be durable. Durable spaces facilitate our attachments to our communities and to other members; they help us sustain communities. Chapter 3 draws from Alexis de Tocqueville’s writing on democracy to explain how the durability of the built environment can be a powerful resource for generating the attachments that sustain democratic communities by (1) continually reminding citizens of their social obligations and (2) facilitating repeated interactions between citizens. The chapter then turns to the example of Twitter—particularly the mechanism of hashtags—to explore these dynamics in a digital environment. Hashtags provide temporary boundaries that are useful for mobilizing, but not sustaining, communities of interest; as a result, Twitter is not a platform well suited for cultivating the attachments required for longer-term cooperative activity. The chapter concludes with suggestions as to how we might design more durable spaces—and sustainable communities—in digital environments.

Democracy for Profit?

2021 ◽  
pp. 137-176
Author(s):  
Jennifer Forestal
Keyword(s):  
Democratic Politics ◽  
For Profit ◽  
User Control ◽  
Lack Of Control ◽  
Digital Environments ◽  
Algorithmic Design ◽  
Democratic Communities ◽  
And Control

This chapter evaluates Facebook and Twitter’s algorithms using the framework of democratic space. Prominent critiques highlight their opacity and users’ lack of control; tools like Gobo “fix” these algorithms by increasing their flexibility. But while these solutions might cede more control to individual users, they are insufficient for building democratic communities; the more pressing concern for both Facebook and Twitter is their lack of clear boundaries, which undermines users’ ability to recognize their communities. The chapter concludes by showing how we might “democratize” these algorithms in ways that not only increase user control over their digital environments and the algorithms that structure them, but also help to generate and sustain the communities required to exert that control democratically. Ultimately, the chapter argues that questions of ownership and control must be placed alongside considerations about the communal effects of algorithmic design if we are to build environments supportive of democratic politics.

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