Reimagining Democracy: Communication Activism, Social Justice, and Prefiguration in Participatory Budgeting

Vincent Russell

doi:10.5771/9781666942545

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Edition: 1/2024
Copyright Year: 2024
ISBN-Print: 978-1-6669-4253-8
ISBN-Online: 978-1-6669-4254-5
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 216
Product Type: Monograph

1. Contents No access
2. 1. 1. Phase 1: Forming the Steering Committee No access
    2. Phase 2: Idea Collection No access
    3. Phase 3: Project Proposal Development No access
    4. Phase 4: Voting No access
    5. Phase 5: Project Implementation and Process Revision No access
3. Acknowledgments No access
1. 1. Phases of Participatory Budgeting No access
  2. The State of Participatory Budgeting in the United States No access
2. 1. Prefigurative Politics No access
3. Notes No access
1. The Genesis of a Partnership No access
2. 1. 1. Cole Has a Soul Participation No access
  2. 1. Auraria PB Participation No access
3. 1. The Specter of White Masculinity No access
  2. Developing Politicized Trust with Cole Has a Soul Participants No access
4. Notes No access
1. Coordinators’ Instrumental Approach to Implementing Auraria PB No access
2. 1. Equity and Social Justice No access
3. Prefiguring Citizenship: Friendships, Fun, and Activism No access
4. Campus Administrators’ and Staff Members’ Resistance to Auraria Participatory Budgeting No access
5. Epilogue: The Campaign No access
6. Notes No access
1. 1. “Coming Together” No access
  2. 1. Greetings, Demonstrating Care for the Other, and Celebrations No access
  3. 1. Local Expertise and Collective Ownership No access
2. 1. The Necessity of, and Challenges with, Engagement and Participation No access
3. 1. Inclusion No access
  2. Equity No access
4. Exercising Power to Reimagine Community No access
5. Epilogue: Unrealized Potential No access
6. Notes No access
1. 1. Minimal Changes to Public Participation and Political Self-Efficacy No access
  2. Meaningful Changes to Public Participation and Political Self-Efficacy No access
2. 1. Reasons for Unstable Participatory Budgeting Relationships No access
  2. Maintaining Participatory Budgeting Relationships No access
  3. Connections to the Campus/Neighborhood No access
  4. Rewarding Relationships No access
  5. Why Relationships Were Important No access
3. 1. Social Justice Shortcomings No access
  2. Flaws in Other Governing Systems No access
  3. Marginalized People Exercising Collective Power No access
  4. Increasing Community Resiliency No access
  5. Discursive Shift to Collective Values No access
4. Conclusion No access
5. Notes No access
1. 1. Auraria Participatory Budgeting: An Instrumental Approach No access
  2. Cole Has a Soul: A Relational Approach No access
  3. Effects on Participants No access
  4. Summary of the Two Approaches to Implementing Participatory Budgeting No access
2. 1. Effects of Participatory Budgeting on Oppressed Participants’ Public Participation No access
  2. Community Capacity for Social Change No access
3. Lessons Learned: Practical Recommendations for Implementing Socially Just Participatory Budgeting No access
4. Note No access
1. The Limitations of Participatory Budgeting No access
2. The Prefigurative Politics of Participatory Budgeting No access
3. Implications for Communication Activism No access
4. 1. 1. External Exclusion No access
    2. Internal Exclusion No access
  2. Tensions between Equity and Equality No access
5. Conclusion No access
References No access Pages 195 - 210
Index No access Pages 211 - 214
About the Author No access Pages 215 - 216