Citizens jointly create contexts for political conversation through civic practices

Evidence

This etiquette varies from one context to another, so one way of observing this process of creating contexts is to notice the dramatic changes in discourse from frontstage to backstage. This civic etiquette is always an active, culturally creative response to a particular context. Civic practices are the fundamentally sociable processes by which citizens create contexts for political conversation in civil society, by jointly creating a relationship to speech itself. In creating these contexts, citizens develop meaning-making powers together. — Nina Eliasoph, Avoiding politics, 186

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines ‘civic practices’ as shared, sociable processes of context creation rather than logical systems.
• XREF: connects to: Civic engagement is a mode of talk, not a subject matter — Nina Eliasoph, Avoiding politics: how Americans…, 147; Valuing their own talk lets citizen groups grow political knowledge and broaden concern — Nina Eliasoph, Avoiding politics: how Americans…, 1498; Dialogue is inherently a political act with world-making purpose (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Valuing their own talk lets citizen groups grow political knowledge and broaden concern #expands (0.80) — Nina Eliasoph, Avoiding politics, 1498
• Dialogue is inherently a political act with world-making purpose #expands (0.75)