Potter2007
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| BibType | INCOLLECTION |
| Key | Potter2007 |
| Author(s) | Jonathan Potter, Alexa Hepburn |
| Title | Chairing Democracy: Psychology, Time, and Negotiating the Institution |
| Editor(s) | Karen Tracy, James P. McDaniel, Bruce E. Gronbeck |
| Tag(s) | CA, democracy, school board |
| Publisher | The University of Alabama Press |
| Year | 2007 |
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| City | Tuscaloosa |
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| Pages | 176–202 |
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| ISBN | 978-0-8173-1575-7 |
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| Book title | The Prettier Doll: Rhetoric, Discourse, and Ordinary Democracy |
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Abstract
If ordinary democracy is conducted in everyday settings such as school board meetings, then it will be important to understand how that democracy is conducted in its specifics. That is, we will need to understand the way democracy is sustained in, and embodied in, particular settings and procedures and how, in turn, these settings and procedures become live. In this essay we will pick up a set of themes— time and control, authority and resistance, prejudice and passion— and follow them through the intricate practices that make up interaction in that setting and constitute its nature. We will consider democracy and its management as something practically conducted, often using delicate and indirect means. It is something rich and complicated that requires close attention to understand. Democracy is not something that is simply switched on by invoking a procedure—it is something that can be sustained and subverted in a collective often-dilemmatic manner. In this chapter we will illustrate this moment-by-moment sustenance and subversion with a particular example.
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