Democratic urban processes

General data

Course ID:	1900-SM-2-5MS
Erasmus code / ISCED:	(unknown) / (unknown)
Course title:	Democratic urban processes
Name in Polish:	Demokratyczne procesy miejskie
Organizational unit:	Faculty of Geography and Regional Studies
Course groups:	(in Polish) Przedmioty obowiązkowe, Studia miejskie, stacjonarne - sem. 2 (in Polish) Studia Miejskie, II semestr, Moduł Społeczny
ECTS credit allocation (and other scores):	(not available) Basic information on ECTS credits allocation principles: the annual hourly workload of the student’s work required to achieve the expected learning outcomes for a given stage is 1500-1800h, corresponding to 60 ECTS; the student’s weekly hourly workload is 45 h; 1 ECTS point corresponds to 25-30 hours of student work needed to achieve the assumed learning outcomes; weekly student workload necessary to achieve the assumed learning outcomes allows to obtain 1.5 ECTS; work required to pass the course, which has been assigned 3 ECTS, constitutes 10% of the semester student load. view allocation of credits
Language:	(unknown)
Type of course:	obligatory courses
Mode:	Classroom Remote learning
Short description:	The aim of the course is to present some basic principles concerning public participation and the practice of involving city citizens into decision-making processes, through the perspective of social conflict. The course will be conducted as a workshop, where we will analyse case studies and engage into practical activities. Throughout the course we will be looking at institutional contexts, including public policies and local legal acts aimed at developing participatory methods of city governance, as well as their implementation in practice. We will also focus on cases of conflict, the social mechanisms involved, as well as possible ways of resolving differences.
Full description:	The aim of the course is to present some basic principles concerning public participation and the practice of involving city citizens into decision-making processes, through the perspective of social conflict. The course will be conducted as a workshop, where we will analyse case studies and engage into practical activities. Throughout the course we will be looking at institutional contexts, including public policies and local legal acts aimed at developing participatory methods of city governance, as well as their implementation in practice. We will also focus on cases of conflict, the social mechanisms involved, as well as possible ways of resolving differences. The course will start with discussing the idea of deliberative democracy, its potential social benefits as well as challenges associated with putting the idea into practice. We will then look at various ways of implementing participatory mechanisms into city governance and their accompanying difficulties. We will analyse chosen local legal acts (e.g. resolutions concerning social consultations or participatory budgeting) and their implementation in specific urban contexts. Next we will look at examples of social conflicts associated with participatory processes, as well as methods and techniques of building consensus between the diverse interests of various social actors: institutions, organisations, activists and groups of residents. A specific type of conflict that we will focus on is NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard), which involves controversy around situating investments that are socially important but highly burdensome for their immediate neighbours.
Bibliography:	(in Polish) Coleman P., Konflikt trudno rozwiązywalny, w: Deutsch M., Coleman P.T. (red.), Rozwiązywanie konfliktów. Teoria i praktyka, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, Kraków 2005.  Gójska A., Konsultacje społeczne jako narzędzie rozwiązywania konfliktów miejskich, w: Lewenstein B., Gójska A., Zielińska E., Aktywizmy miejskie, Scholar, 2020, str.252-278  Gójska Agata, Mediacje w konfliktach społecznych, w: Gmurzyńska E., Morek R. (red.), Mediacje. Teoria i praktyka, Wolters Kluwer, 2014, str. 375-392  Juchacz P.W, Demokracja, deliberacja, partycypacja, Wydawnictwo UAM w Poznaniu, 2011, rozdział I.2 O nowych deliberatywnych modelach partycypacji obywatelskiej.  Matczak P., Społeczne uwarunkowania eliminacji syndromu NIMBY, w: Podmiotowość społeczności lokalnej, red. R.Cichocki, Poznań, 1996  Michałowska E., Syndrom NIMBY jako przykład samoorganizacji społecznej na poziomie lokalnym, Studia Regionalne i Lokalne, nr 1 (31), 2008, str. 60-80.  Moore Christopher, Mediacje. Praktyczne strategie rozwiązywania konfliktów, Wolters Kluwer 2009, str. 395- 427, 429-443.  Reykowski J. (red.), Konflikt i porozumienie. Psychologiczne podstawy demokracji deliberatywnej, ACADEMICA 2007, rozdz.1 Wasilewski J. Czy demokracja deliberatywna naprawi współczesną demokrację? Oraz rozdz. 2 Reykowski J., Rozwiązywanie sprzeczności ideologicznych i sprzeczności interesów w grupach społecznych – teoria i badania  Starzewski M., Społeczeństwo obywatelskie a legitymizacja władzy na przykładzie sporu o budowę mostu Krasińskiego w Warszawie, w: Lewenstein B., Gójska A., Zielińska E., Aktywizmy miejskie, Scholar, 2020, str. 78-102
Assessment methods and assessment criteria:	The final grade will be based on attendance and activity during the class (30%), and a written exam (70%).

This course is not currently offered.

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