Striving for Sustainable Global Democracy Through a Group Decision-Making Process: A Critical Review of an Online Course to Model Transformative Praxis
Journal Title: Journal of Globalization Studies - Year 2012, Vol 3, Issue 1
Abstract
‘Sustainability is not simply about changing practices but more centrally about agreeing to change practices together’ (Flanagan et al. 2011). To achieve such ends, groups need to improve processes for making complex de-cisions together. The challenge faced recently in Copenhagen (including a large number of diverse participants in policy discussions) indicates the need for new ways to improve discursive democracy. Poverty and climate change are ‘wicked’ problems (Rittel and Webber 1984) that comprise many diverse interrelated variables and that have a strong value and emotional dimension. The shortcomings of many approaches to these problems is that they are expert driven, do not involve the public in decision making, and have a narrow focus on technical issues. They do not consider issues in terms of their interrelated complexity with human cultural issues and values. This paper addresses the transboundary conundrum of how to address complex social and environmental challenges while engaging with people's diverse values and emotions.
Authors and Affiliations
Kenneth Bausch, Tom Flanagan, Janet McIntyre-Mills, Tony Made, Kelly Mackenzie, Charles Morse, Gayle Underwood
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP262882
- DOI -
- Views 109
- Downloads 0
FROM THE ALIENATION OF NEOLIBERAL GLOBALIZATION TO TRANSMODERN WAYS OF BEING: EPISTEMIC CHANGE AND THE COLLAPSE OF THE MODERN WORLD-SYSTEM
This paper proposes that humanity has entered a new historical epoch in the evolution of the world-system, one defined by the collapse of the modern world-system. It conceptualizes neoliberal globalization as the final h...
Globalization and World Order: Four Paradigmatic Views
Globalization and world order, as any other phenomenon, can be seen through different lenses or worldviews. This paper views globalization and world order from the vantage point of four different broad worldviews: func-t...
POPULATION AGEING AND GLOBAL ECONOMIC GROWTH
The author develops a simple model to examine the impact of population ageing – including reduced productivity and declining labor forces – on global economic growth.
A PERSPECTIVE ON MEDIA ENTREPRENEURSHIP POLICY: GLOBALIZATION OF KNOWLEDGE AND THE OPPORTUNITIES FOR DEVELOPING ECONOMIES
The investments in the acquisition of knowledge present one of the biggest challenges for the developing societies which have no infrastructures and re-sources to benefit from it. Thus, in many cases, the academic instit...
THE SECOND AXIAL AGE AND METAMORPHOSES OF RELIGIOUS CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE ‘CHRISTIAN WORLD’
Departing from Karl Jaspers's prominent conception of the 800–200 BCE as the Axial Age, the author argues that from the late 15th century and especially from the mid-18th century up to now the world is experiencing the s...