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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"democratic agency"”.
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Female Democratic Agency: Lessons from Rural Haiti
… to this crisis and the potential for female democratic agency. There is a significant lack of elected female officials in Haiti. This fact invites us to consider the impact rural Haitian females, such as the famn chay, are potentially making in Haiti. Famn chay are traditional birth …
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Food security in the free state province: Meaning making as democratic agency
… is one of the most powerful tools of their agency, and this is what this study reveals. In it, I tell the stories of people in the Free State Province, South Africa, who face food insecurity within abundance, and their critical consciousness and agency as they struggle to survive in their …
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The Normativity of Public Freedom: Arendt, Exemplarity, Judgment
… even precarious. Yet it is less a symptom of democratic waywardness than an expression of political freedom itself: of citizens struggling to shape the world that, in turn, shapes them. Responding to this condition is therefore not only an empirical but a theoretical task. If examples inform …
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Creating Participatory Space through Partnership Exploring the relationship between a faith-based day programming organization and a cohousing community for individuals with and without disabilities
… with disabilities to exercise personal agency and independence, as well as encourage mutual relationship building between persons with and without disabilities. The implications of their partnership were the central focus of this inquiry. The analysis investigates how the physical …
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Silent Refuge? A Critical Democratic Exploration of Voice and Authorship among Resettled Iraqis in the United States
… exploration of the possibilities for political agency for resettled Iraqis in the United States. Grounded in literature suggesting those displaced commonly experience constrained agency framed as "silence/ing" and/or "voicelessness," I identify three requirements to democratic participation: …