The politics, science, and art of receptivity

Beausoleil, Emily

doi:10.3402/egp.v7.23231

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“…Certain conditions might induce anxiety among citizens, such as when they are asked to remain open to the unfamiliar, uncomfortable and radically different (Bickford ; Morrell ). To enter into political discussions with a listening, open and pragmatic stance means that what takes place in the discussion has the potential to profoundly change, or even undermine, one's existing views, opinions and even identity (Beausoleil ). Consequently, there is a constant risk of backlash of deliberation when participants resort to stereotypical and prejudicial thinking and established scripts of mind because it ‘reduces the burden of understanding complex social environments’ (Lillis and Hayes : 390).…”

Section: Cultivating Deliberative Norms (And Complexity Of Thinking)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Deliberation and Complexity of Thinking. Using the Integrative Complexity Scale to Assess the Deliberative Quality of Minipublics

Jennstål

2019

Swiss Political Sci Review

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The quality of deliberative conversations are dependent on citizens compliance with deliberative norms yet there is a lack of methods to assess norm compliance in discussions. Here, the psychological construct of complexity of thinking is claimed to conceptually correspond to the deliberative conversational ideal and adopted as a measurement of deliberative norm compliance. The hypothesis that citizens' complexity of thinking increases as a result of participation in deliberative conversations was tested in a minipublic case study in Sweden. Participants' complexity of thinking was assessed before and after deliberation by responding to an open-ended question about the topic of debate. Manual coding was used to rate participants integrative complexity. The result confirms the hypothesis, which serves as an indicator of deliberative quality. The study also demonstrates that women get higher increases in complexity, as do highly agreeable individuals and those who hold more liberal views. The findings demonstrate the potential usefulness of integrative complexity as a measurement of deliberative quality.

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Section: Cultivating Deliberative Norms (And Complexity Of Thinking)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Deliberation and Complexity of Thinking. Using the Integrative Complexity Scale to Assess the Deliberative Quality of Minipublics

Jennstål

2019

Swiss Political Sci Review

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“…Geographers have turned their attention to these complex processes of becoming by drawing on theories of affect and performance (Dewsbury ; Kanngieser and Grindon ; Pratt ; Somdahl‐Sands ). Beausoleil () suggests that focusing on the role of affect counters what Brennan () calls the ‘foundational fantasy’ of much western theory, which prioritises the autonomy of a unified subject as a pre‐condition for political change. Theories of affect ‘acknowledge that we are always‐already affected and only ever in response to the world in which we are embedded’ (Beausoleil , 20).…”

Section: The Contradictions Of Waged Workmentioning

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“…Beausoleil () suggests that focusing on the role of affect counters what Brennan () calls the ‘foundational fantasy’ of much western theory, which prioritises the autonomy of a unified subject as a pre‐condition for political change. Theories of affect ‘acknowledge that we are always‐already affected and only ever in response to the world in which we are embedded’ (Beausoleil , 20). Taking these insights into participatory art and wider action research praxis as a point of departure, my research with Productive Bodies aims to explore how participatory art projects could enable participants to reflect on dominant discourses of the work society, while also collectively imagining and enacting alternatives.…”

Section: The Contradictions Of Waged Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…So rather than trying to change the State, or completely restructure the discourses of the work society, we attempted to create the type of world we wanted to live in and exercised a form of temporary collective agency. These kinds of embodied‐affectual practices are one useful way of moving beyond fixed representations of subjectivities, because they tend to focus more on the present than ‘describe or relay a determinate message or represent an elsewhere’ (Beausoleil , 23).…”

Section: The Political Potential Of Embodied‐affective Actionmentioning

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Negotiating contradiction: work, redundancy and participatory art

Diprose

2015

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Within participatory geography and relational aesthetic art literature there have been calls to focus on how participation is framed, who is included and excluded, the types of relations involved and the effects of such practices. Linked to these concerns, questions have also been raised around how participants are framed and understood in participatory projects. For instance, as self-determining and knowing subjects who become politically affirmed through participation, or as subjects caught up in complex processes of becoming. In this article I show how the participatory art project 'Productive Bodies' in Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand, enabled participants to articulate the complex contradictions surrounding waged work, redundancy and unemployment. I suggest that participatory art projects can be a useful way for subjects to explore these complex processes of becoming. Useful because in this case, the project enabled participants to both acknowledge dominant disciplining discourses around waged work, while also creating space to imagine and enact alternatives to more dominant and limiting discourses. I argue that participatory art projects like Productive Bodies can help subjects move away from cognitive understandings of social change and political demands because the process understands subjects as always-already affected by wider societal discourses. Such an understanding recognises the complexity of subjectivities whereby subjects are both complicit in perpetuating and subjecting themselves to more dominant discourses, but also often desirous of change. Participatory art projects like Productive Bodies can enable subjects to articulate these complexities, while also catching glimpses of other selves and other societal relations through affectual-embodied encounters.

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“…The notion of 'voice' in political theory has become a way of conceptualizing the need for plurality and difference 1 in examining political relations. Whereas 'voice' signifies those dissonant and marginalized voices who have been silenced under dominant narratives, the notion of 'voice' is also used to critique the phenomenon of representation, of speaking for others, in the name of others, and of representative claims of a whole group.…”

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Human rights for more than one voice: rethinking political space beyond the global/local divide

Adami

2014

Ethics & Global Politics

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This paper considers political agency and space as found in Cavarero's For More Than One Voice: Toward a Philosophy of Vocal Expression in order to take a critical philosophical approach to human rights education (HRE) and the political implications of its increasingly legal discourse. Like Arendt, Cavarero is concerned with a radical rethinking of political space, as not limited to place or legal borders, but bound by our human condition of plurality and relationality. Both Arendt and Cavarero want politics to be coupled with justice, nevertheless, Cavarero provides a notion of politics that lets us think beyond territorial terms of a polis, which opens for exploring an expanded conceptualization of human rights politics, as not bound by national legislative measures, but as concerning political action in-between human beings. In contrast to the dominant discourse on 'human rights experts' who frame the content for HRE, the notion of 'absolute local space' questions the dichotomy of universal/particular in raising the importance of a plurality of unique voices who create a spectrum for the universality of rights.

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The politics, science, and art of receptivity

Cited by 12 publications

References 22 publications

Deliberation and Complexity of Thinking. Using the Integrative Complexity Scale to Assess the Deliberative Quality of Minipublics

Deliberation and Complexity of Thinking. Using the Integrative Complexity Scale to Assess the Deliberative Quality of Minipublics

Negotiating contradiction: work, redundancy and participatory art

Human rights for more than one voice: rethinking political space beyond the global/local divide

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