Creating Spaces of Engagement: Policy Justice and the Practical Craft of Deliberative Democracy

Introduction: Why Create Spaces of Engagement? Connecting Theory, Policy, and Practice
Leah R.E. Levac, University of Guelph and Sarah Marie Wiebe, University of Hawai’i, Manoa

Part One: Across Disciplines and Beyond the Academy: Stretching Deliberative Democratic Theory

1. Revelatory Protest, Deliberative Exclusion, and the B.C. Missing Women Commission of Inquiry: Bridging the Micro/Macro Divide
Genevieve Fuji Johnson, Simon Fraser University

2. The Alberta Energy Futures Lab: A Case Study in Socio-Cultural Transition Through Public Engagement
Stephen Williams, Energy Futures Lab

3. Deliberative Democracy and Collective Impact: Seeing and Believing Shared Outcomes and Shared Participation
Ellen Szarleta, Indiana University Northwest

4. Northern Women’s Conceptualizations of Wellbeing: Engaging in the "Right" Policy Conversations
Leah R.E. Levac, University of Guelph and Jacqueline Gillis, University of Guelph

5. Unsettled Democracy: The Case of the Grandview-Woodlands Citizen Assembly
Rachel Magnusson, City of Vancouver

6. Opening to the Possible: Girls and Women with Disabilities Engaging in Vietnam
Deborah Stienstra, University of Guelph and Xuan Thuy Nguyen, Carleton University

Part Two: Centring Voices from the Margins: Expanding and Evaluating Engagement Practices

7. How OpenMedia.ca Has Used Social Media to Engage Thousands in "Policy Hacking" for Regulatory Reforms at the CRTC and Other Government Bodies
Tara Mahoney, Simon Fraser University

8. An Experiment in Engaging the "Heart and Mind": Building Community Capacity on Post-Secondary Campuses
Catriona Remocker, University of Victoria, Tim Dyck, University of Victoria, and Dan Reist, University of Victoria

9. Art-Full Methods of Democratic Participation: Listening, Engagement, and Connection
Joanna Ashworth, Simon Fraser University

10. Power, Privilege, and Policy-Making: Reflections on “Changing Public Engagement from the Ground Up”
Alana Cattapan, University of Waterloo, April Mandrona, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Tammy Findlay, Mount Saint Vincent University, and Alexandra Dobrowolsky, Saint Mary’s University

11. Engaging with Women in Low-Income: Implications for Government-Convened Public Engagement Initiatives and Deliberative Democracy
Leah R.E. Levac, University of Guelph

Part Three: Effective and Affective Spaces of Deliberation

12. The heART of Engagement: Experiences of a Community-Created Mobile Art Gallery in Brazil
Bruno de Oliviera Jayme, Royal Roads University

13. Temporary Labour Migrants’ Engagement and (Dis)engagement with the Policy Process
Ethel Tungohan, York University

14. Storytelling as Engagement: Learning from Youth Voices in Attawapiskat
Sarah Marie Wiebe, University of Hawai’i, Manoa

15. Making Spaces for Truth: Exploring the Lived Meanings of Deliberating Reconciliation in Higher Education
Derek Tannis, Saskatchewan Polytechnic

16. Global Development Agendas with Local Relevance? "Glocal" Approaches, Tensions, and Lessons on Measuring Aid Effectiveness
Astrid Pérez Piñán, University of Victoria

Conclusion: Concluding Reflections on Policy Justice Deliberative Democracy, Citizen Participation, and the Future of Policy-Making
Leah R.E. Levac, University of Guelph and Sarah Marie Wiebe, University of Hawai’i, Manoa