''Place'' as Prepolitical Grounds of Democracy : An Appalachian Case Study in Class Conflict, Forest Politics, and Civic Networks  

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Taylor, Betsy

Jenis: Article from Journal - e-Journal
Dalam koleksi: American Behavioral Scientist vol. 52 no. 06 (Feb. 2009), page 826-845.
Topik: Democracy; Place; Class; Appalachia; Networked Governance; Commons; Public Forests; Regional Civil Society; Environmental Conflict; Local Knowledge
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This article argues for democratization as the crafting of democratic public space. Through ethnography of grassroots contestation in Appalachia, the article examines the social substrate of collective mobilization on environmental issues. It proposes shared stewardship of “place” as important grounds for democratization—helping to overcome divisions of class, culture, and ideology and to encourage integrative deliberation and knowledge. Collective labors to steward particular places create understandings of a shared world arising from civic and environmental commons. Place-stewardship can engender integrative forms of knowledge—multicausal, multiscalar, multitemporal—as people deliberate about complex ecological and social phenomena over time. However, citizens typically face an environmental policy system that displaces integrated, community-centered perspectives into specialized government mandates and scholarly expertise. Against this fragmenting political terrain, civil society develops “counterexpertise” based on multiscalar and multi-issue networking. Such networks are not reliably democratizing, however, unless grounded in democratic public space.

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