Environmental justice and deliberative democracy: How social change organizations respond to power in the deliberative system
Environmental justice and deliberative democracy: How social change organizations respond to power in the deliberative system
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环境正义和协商民主：社会变革组织如何应对协商制度中的权力
DOI：
10.1016/j.polsoc.2009.08.005
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发表时间：
2009
影响因子：
9.3
通讯作者：
Jennifer Dodge
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作者：
Jennifer Dodge
本文探讨了民间社会组织如何向协商政治中的决策者传递政策思想。它借鉴了西南环境与经济正义网络的案例，重点关注他们如何应对霸权权力，并考虑“协商制度”内的行动，包括协商论坛和更广泛的公共话语。我发现民间社会参与者使用话语和强制形式的权力来调动意义并打断环境决策中关于种族的普遍假设。与理论相反，民间社会组织主要在面对面审议中或与之相关（以确保更公平的进程并将其政策问题提上议程）使用强制力。然而，当他们关于种族歧视的想法在审议中被削弱时，他们使用非对抗形式的话语权来发展关于种族的批判性话语，并将其传播到公共领域，为未来的政治行动提供信息。
This article examines how civil society organizations transmit policy ideas to decision makers in deliberative politics. Drawing on a case of the Southwest Network for Environmental and Economic Justice, it focuses on how they respond to hegemonic power and considers action within “the deliberative system,” including deliberative forums and broader public discourse. I find that civil society actors use both discursive and coercive forms of power to mobilize meaning and interrupt prevailing assumptions about race in environmental decision making. Contrary to theory, the civil society organization used coercive power mostly in and relating to face-to-face deliberation (to secure a fairer process and get their policy problems on the agenda). When their ideas about racial discrimination were weakened in deliberations, however, they used non-confrontational forms of discursive power to develop critical discourse on race and disseminate it in the public sphere where it could inform future political action.