In Defense of Enlightenment: Foucault and Habermas

Bahr, Ehrhard

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“…As a result, “Habermas's work can be of varied use to feminists … as it offers a framework for analyzing the structure of modern life, its potentials for both emancipatory forms of life and forms of life issuing in political repression, market manipulation, and domination” (Meehan, 1995, p. 1). In response to yet another criticism, proposals have been made to show how TCA can be used productively in relation to the work of Foucault (Bahr, 1988), Derrida, and Lyotard (White, 1991).…”

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Measuring Participation as Communicative Action: A Case Study of Citizen Involvement in and Assessment of a City's Smoking Cessation Policy-Making Process

Chang

Jacobson

2010

Journal of Communication

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This article adopts an operational protocol for evaluating participation from Jürgen Habermas's theory of communicative action. The research setting is citizen participation in a city government's policy-making process on smoking in public places. Participation as communicative action is evaluated by the extent to which citizens accept the validity of what policy makers say and by whether citizens feel that they can raise concerns about a proposed policy in unrestricted communication environments. Findings indicate that citizens feel participatory in a decision-making process if they recognize policy makers'validity claims and perceive uncoerced speech conditions. Communicative action variables exercise significant predictability on a dependent variable indicating policy legitimacy.

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Measuring Participation as Communicative Action: A Case Study of Citizen Involvement in and Assessment of a City's Smoking Cessation Policy-Making Process

Chang

Jacobson

2010

Journal of Communication

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“…Related to the issue of universalism is a Foucauldian criticism that any form of modernization must be accompanied by overdeterminations of a disciplinary type, that is, techniques employed in the planning and implementation of social change comprise techniques of power. However, this criticism provides a complementary analysis rather than a contradiction of communicative action (Bahr, 1988). Foucault's critique of disciplinarity provides a more nuanced criticism of the micropractices of power than does Habermas's critique of lifeworld colonization.…”

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Development Communication and Participation: Applying Habermas to a Case Study of Population Programs in Nepal

Jacobson¹,

Storey²

2004

Commun Theory

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One conceptual problem associated with analyzing participatory communication for development is the lack of clear definitions; another concerns scale. The participation literature tends to limit itself to processes at the village level, yet certain kinds of change require the involvement of large-scale organizations and support from the state. This article addresses these problems using Jürgen Habermas's theory of communicative action with a focus on the concepts of "ideal speech" and the "public sphere." The theory is applied to a case study of a population communication program carried out by the government of Nepal with the support of USAID and international aid organizations. The ongoing program provides empirical evidence of the usefulness of this conceptualization of participatory communication that can potentially provide analytic leverage in relation to both small-and large-scale programs of social change, as well as guide operationalization of key elements of communicative action.Approaches to the study of development communication have evolved over recent decades from an earlier emphasis on mass media dissemination toward an emphasis on participatory processes of communication, processes that are more dialogical and community based (

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Revolution and Repression. A Review Article

Outram

1992

Comp Stud Soc Hist

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In Defense of Enlightenment: Foucault and Habermas

Cited by 8 publications

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Measuring Participation as Communicative Action: A Case Study of Citizen Involvement in and Assessment of a City's Smoking Cessation Policy-Making Process

Measuring Participation as Communicative Action: A Case Study of Citizen Involvement in and Assessment of a City's Smoking Cessation Policy-Making Process

Development Communication and Participation: Applying Habermas to a Case Study of Population Programs in Nepal

Revolution and Repression. A Review Article

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