Can Deliberative Democracy Be Decolonized? Probably not…
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Nicole Curato, Hans Asenbaum, Ricardo Mendonça, and Selen Ercan launching their book, Research Methods in Deliberative Democracy (along with Jonathan Pickering, Mollu Scudder, and Carolyn Hendriks; photo by David Beach) I started my career researching and writing about deliberative democracy. If you haven’t encountered this term before, it’s a reference to an ideal form of […]
Can Surfing be Decolonized? Maybe…
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Each day, I feel closer to the outer edges of summer. A new season will soon be here, one that’s more purposeful, deliberate, and scheduled. Part of this shift is intellectual; part is more activist. Both my critical curiosity and passion for justice are rising from a long July nap. A recent Tyee piece by […]