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Ordinary Citizenship

普通公民

基本信息

批准号：
AH/W002264/1
负责人：
Derek John Edyvane
金额：
$ 30.9万
依托单位：
University of Leeds
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Fellowship
财政年份：
2022
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2022 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FW002264%2F1
关键词：
Ordinary Citizenship

项目摘要

We often ask what makes a good citizen, but we rarely ask what makes an ordinary citizen. The ordinary citizens are the 'not-so-good' citizens, citizens for whom politics and political participation are not objects of great enthusiasm. We often disparage them: we regret their ignorance of current affairs, their apathy, their selfishness; and we lament the wider civic decline they are seen to embody. We also try to 'repair' them by making them into better citizens: better informed, more likely to vote and volunteer, more polite and public-spirited. A 2018 UK government report identified as a core challenge the need to promote a society 'whose members are encouraged and enabled to participate as active citizens' (Select Committee on Citizenship and Civic Engagement).But we do all of this without thinking carefully about what ordinary citizenship is and what role it plays in a democracy - we think of ordinary citizens only in terms of what they lack and of how we might improve them. This oversight is not just a matter of theoretical interest: the stigmatisation of ordinary citizens has been exploited by populist political movements which have fostered social division by strategically and often cynically positioning themselves as defenders of the ordinary people against a more politically savvy elite. The central aim of this project is to counter those tendencies and to create and sustain a healthier democracy by showing that ordinary citizenship plays a vital role in political life. The project will ask what it really means to be an ordinary citizen and will propose a re-evaluation of those who fall short of our civic ideals. Instead of denigrating them, we should seek to accommodate them, whilst learning how to foster the distinctive qualities and dispositions their role demands. To achieve these goals, we need to understand better how ordinary citizens understand themselves. And this requires a somewhat unusual approach that departs from the often abstract methods of conventional political philosophy. By working on the ground with local democracy activists and ordinary citizens themselves, and by combining those activities with an extensive interdisciplinary study of everyday citizenship, the project will develop a rich account of the situated experience of ordinary citizens. That account will then inform the conceptual and normative enquiry that lies at the project's centre. Working closely with practitioners, the project will inspire new approaches to understanding and cultivating citizenship beyond formal democratic institutions. It will achieve this through a sequence of knowledge exchange activities aimed at the development of a smartphone app to evaluate the civic engagement of users generating a 'citizen score' and associated ranking. By working, first, with citizens themselves, and subsequently with an on-line learning platform (project partner, Hive Learning) and civil society organisations like Notwestminster and Democratic Society, activities will explore the ethical and technical shortcomings of the enterprise. In so doing, the project will generate fresh insights about what it means to be a citizen and about the possibilities and limitations of technology in the service of local democracy.

我们经常问什么是好公民，但我们很少问什么是普通公民。普通公民是“不那么好”的公民，对他们来说，政治和政治参与不是很热情的对象。我们经常把它们挂在嘴边：我们对他们对时事的无知、冷漠和自私感到遗憾;我们对他们所体现的更广泛的公民堕落感到遗憾。我们还试图通过使他们成为更好的公民来“修复”他们：更好地了解情况，更有可能投票和志愿服务，更有礼貌和公益精神。2018年英国政府的一份报告指出，需要促进一个“鼓励并使其成员能够作为积极公民参与”的社会，（公民身份和公民参与特别委员会）。但我们做这一切时没有仔细思考什么是普通公民身份，以及它在民主国家中扮演什么角色-我们只从普通公民缺乏什么以及我们如何改善他们的角度来考虑他们。这种忽视不仅仅是一个理论上的兴趣问题：对普通公民的污名化被民粹主义政治运动所利用，这些政治运动通过战略性地、经常是玩世不恭地将自己定位为普通民众的捍卫者，以对抗更精明的政治精英，从而促进了社会分裂。该项目的中心目标是通过表明普通公民在政治生活中发挥着至关重要的作用来抵制这些趋势，并建立和维持一个更健康的民主。该项目将询问作为一个普通公民的真正意义，并将建议重新评估那些不符合我们公民理想的人。我们不应该诋毁他们，而应该设法适应他们，同时学习如何培养他们的独特品质和性格。为了实现这些目标，我们需要更好地了解普通公民如何理解自己。这需要一种不同寻常的方法，这种方法与传统政治哲学通常抽象的方法不同。通过与当地民主活动家和普通公民本身在实地开展工作，并将这些活动与对日常公民的广泛跨学科研究相结合，该项目将丰富地描述普通公民的现场经验。然后，这一说明将为项目核心的概念和规范调查提供信息。该项目将与实践者密切合作，激发在正式民主体制之外理解和培养公民意识的新方法。为实现这一目标，将开展一系列知识交流活动，目的是开发一个智能手机应用程序，以评估用户的公民参与情况，产生“公民评分”和相关排名。通过首先与公民本身合作，然后与在线学习平台（项目合作伙伴Hive Learning）和民间社会组织（如Notwestern和Democratic Society）合作，活动将探讨企业的道德和技术缺陷。在这样做的过程中，该项目将产生新的见解，这意味着什么是一个公民，以及关于技术在地方民主服务的可能性和局限性。