Researching participation through interpretative phenomenology: The case of neighborhood organizing

摘要: Deliberation and collaborative action are crucial for the creation and recreation of democratic governance (Barber, 1984; de Sousa Briggs, 2008; Follett, 1918/1923, 1925; Gaventa & Barrett, 2010; Kathi & Cooper, 2005; Kemmis, 1990; King & Stivers, 1998; Lindblom & Woodhouse, 1993; Stivers, 1990, 1994; Stone, 2001; Wamsley & Wolf, 1996). Public deliberation and civic engagement hold the potential to overcome the current “dark times" in public administration (Stivers, 2008a), characterized by a heightened sense of fear, a retreat of people into their private spaces, and the concomitant disappearance of the public realm, understood as vita activa (Arendt, 1958). The call to bring the public spaces of deliberation back to life is far from recent (Arendt, 1958; Barber, 1984; Follett, 1918/1923; Stivers, 2008a). Public deliberative practices not only contribute to a more