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Participation, Culture and Democracy

Perspectives on Public Engagement and Social Communication

Edited By: Tadej Pirc

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The underlying question of this compendium focuses on the very core of our democratic culture. It investigates how one can actively take part in its political, legal, educational, informational, social, cultural and economic mechanisms.

The underlying question of this collection of essays focuses on the very core of our democratic culture. It asks how one can actively take part…

The underlying question of this collection of essays focuses on the very core of our democratic culture. It asks how one can actively take part in its political, legal, educational, informational, social, cultural and economic mechanisms.

Advanced technologies have given rise to a vast array of tools enabling a culture of participation. New forms of civic engagement have emerged, as well as a new conceptualization of active citizenship. These developments encouraged the authors of this collection to address legal, social, political, philosophical, and media aspects of the emancipatory potential of participatory democracy. They focus on specific case studies stretching across various places and spheres, from the Canadian media legislature, community organizing in low-income neighbourhoods of the USA, the Knesset of Israel, the Roma minority in Poland, and legal texts of Austria, to the online sphere of art and digital democracy.

The key advantage of this book thus lies in its multifaceted consideration of seemingly disparate, yet highly intertwined and ubiquitous, concepts of democratic societies around the globe.

Dr Tadej Pirc studied Philosophy in Burgundy, Sarajevo, Tübingen and Ljubljana, where he obtained his PhD in 2015 and his Assistant Professorship in 2017. He has authored two monographs and several articles published in various renowned international journals, and edited seven interdisciplinary collections of articles tackling the issues of otherness, conflict, solidarity, ethics, and technology. As a Postdoctoral Researcher, he has collaborated with the University of Graz and the Slovak Academy of Sciences. Currently, he is a Researcher with the Institute of African Studies at the University of Leipzig, Germany, and Head of Research Unit at Development Centre Murska Sobota, Slovenia. His primary focus is the ontology of difference, while more broadly, his interests lie in the philosophy of education, post-metaphysics as mirrored in the Nietzsche-Heidegger-Sloterdijk triad, and, above all, the eternal question of Being.