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)
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Language: | (unknown) |
Type of course: | obligatory courses |
Mode: | Classroom |
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%). |
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