About the group
Democracy offers political power to the people, who thereby attain status as citizens rather than mere subjects. The role of citizen presupposes a sense of identity in addition to formal political rights.
Citizenship is formed through the stories told in works of fiction and history, the forms of bureaucratic institutions, encounters with the legal system, organizational engagements, school curriculums, and a range of other discursive encounters. In this context, we refer this as ?textual practices?.
These practices form ways of reasoning, speaking, and writing, that collectively constitute democratic life. Through them, citizens voice their opinions, values, and beliefs, and are confronted with the opinions of others.
This is what we call textual citizenship, a concept that will be both applied and developed by the research group.
Funding
The Voicing Democracy research group has received funding from UiO:Democracy to conduct a three year research project.