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37An Act is Worth a Thousand Words A Place For Public Action And Civic Engagement in Deliberative DemocracyTheoria: A Journal of Social and Political Theory 55 (117): 81-103. 2008.In this paper, we argue that deliberative democrats have too narrow a conception of the political, but that 'activism' as it is normally understood is not sufficiently broad, either. Politics is not reducible to coercion and contestation, but rather to the constitution of our shared world. We contend that active citizenship more often takes the form of working in a rape crisis center or a domestic violence clinic than participating in marches or town meetings
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3An Act is Worth a Thousand Words A Place For Public Action And Civic Engagement in Deliberative DemocracyTheoria: A Journal of Social and Political Theory 55 81-103. 2008.In this paper, we argue that deliberative democrats have too narrow a conception of the political, but that 'activism' as it is normally understood is not sufficiently broad, either. Politics is not reducible to coercion and contestation, but rather to the constitution of our shared world. We contend that active citizenship more often takes the form of working in a rape crisis center or a domestic violence clinic than participating in marches or town meetings.
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From Prison to Jail: Adapting to Teaching in a New Carceral EnvironmentPS Political Science and Politics 52 (1). 2018.
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597Reprobation as Shared Inquiry: Teaching the Liberal Arts in PrisonRadical Philosophy Review 18 (2): 287-308. 2015.Respect for victims requires that we have social systems for punishing and condemning (reproving) serious crimes. But, the conditions of social marginalization and political subordination of the communities from which an overwhelming number of prisoners in the United States come place serious barriers in the face of effective reprobation. Mass incarceration makes this problem worse by disrupting and disrespecting entire communities. While humanities education in the prisons is far from a total s…Read more
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