Pluralist engagement rests on agonistic respect plus critical responsiveness

Evidence

At the core of any form of institutionalization of engagement is the idea of citizen learning and reflection. Connolly (2005: 122–3) sees pluralist engagement being based in two key civic virtues. First is an understanding of agonistic respect, where citizens can understand and respect the positions and reasoning of others while remaining of a different mind on an issue. Second is an ethos of critical responsiveness, or ‘careful listening and presumptive generosity to constituencies struggling to move from an obscure or degraded subsistence below the field of recognition, justice, obligations, rights, or legitimacy to a place on one or more of those registers’ (p. 126). — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice, 649

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines Connolly’s two civic virtues of agonistic respect and critical responsiveness.
• XREF: connects to: Sharing injustice stories across distance forges empathy and recognition that close moral distance — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice:…, 634; Ethical approaches to pluralism omit the limits and hegemonic violence consensus requires — Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox, 581; Mainstream conviviality theory assumes negotiation dissolves fixed identities — Farhan Samanani, Conviviality and its others: for a…, 21 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Ethical approaches to pluralism omit the limits and hegemonic violence consensus requires #complicates (0.72) — Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox, 581
• Mainstream conviviality theory assumes negotiation dissolves fixed identities #qualifies (0.72) — Farhan Samanani, Conviviality and its others, 21