Bonus Ep9 Deliberation Culture Context - Quinlan Bowman

About this episode

In this episode, Nivek Thompson interviews Dr Quinlan Bowman about deliberation and cultural self-criticism in democratic practices.

This is the ninth episode in a bonus series of Real Democracy Now! a podcast talking about Deliberation, Culture and Context. This bonus series has been made in collaboration with the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance at the University of Canberra. In this series, I speak with a number of people who participated in the Centre's conference in early December 2017 which brought together scholars from around the world to examine the different forms, meanings, and significance associated with deliberation in various cultures and contexts. A copy of the conference program is available here . This Conference was supported by John Dryzek's ARC Laureate Fellowship entitled "Deliberative Worlds: Democracy, Justice and a Changing Earth System." In this episode, I'm speaking with Dr Quinlan Bowman . I spoke with Quinlan about his reflections on the Conference where he was one of the speakers in the final roundtable discussion - Deliberation, Culture and Context: the state of play. Quinlan identified recurring anxiety, amongst academics, about making normative judgements about democratic practices around the world. He takes the view that 'all social research is value…

People in this episode

Host: Nivek Thompson

Guest: Dr Quinlan Bowman

Topics covered

• Deliberation
• Culture
• Context
• Democracy
• Social Research

Keywords

• deliberation
• culture
• democracy
• social research
• cross-cultural

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance, University of Canberra, John Dryzek's ARC Laureate Fellowship

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