Tamara: Journal for Critical Organization Inquiry

Democratic engagement through the ethic of passionate impartiality

Sprain, Leah Carcasson, Martín

University of Colorado Boulder | Colorado State University

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Abstrakt

Building on conceptions of democratic engagement, we explicate the epistemological and political commitments of engaged scholarship tied to deliberative democracy that responds to the neutrality challenge of doing impactful political work without advocating for a particular political position. The Colorado State University Center for Public Deliberation (CPD) provides a model of democratic engagement by serving as an impartial resource for its community, in part by training students to be facilitators of public processes. This type of democratic engagement can cultivate mutual benefits for students, professors, universities, community organizations, and citizens. We offer a principle of passionate impartiality for guiding process-design and facilitation. Passionately impartial scholars and students are passionate about their community, democracy, and solving problems but are nonetheless committed to serving a primarily impartial, process-focused role in order to improve local communication practices. Drawing on challenges from critical theory and the academy, we offer a nuanced account of what it means to negotiate the tensions between serving an impartial role while also upholding democratic values of equality and inclusion.

Metadane

Czasopismo Tamara: Journal for Critical Organization Inquiry 
Tom 11 
Numer 4 
Data wydania 2013 
Typ Article 
Język en
Paginacja 13-26
ISSN 1532-5555