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Neutrality as a Twofold Concept
(Centre de recherche en éthique de l'Université de Montréal, 2009-06)
Under the circumstances of pluralism people often claim that the state ought to be neutral towards its citizens’ conceptions of the good life. However, what it means for the state to be neutral is often unclear. This is ...
Are Cities Illiberal? Municipal Jurisdictions and the Scope of Liberal Neutrality
(Centre de recherche en éthique de l'Université de Montréal, 2009-06)
One of the main characteristics of today’s democratic societies is their pluralism. As a result, liberal political philosophers often claim that the state should remain neutral with respect to different conceptions of the ...
Perfectionism, Economic (dis)Incentives, and Political Coercion
(Centre de recherche en éthique de l'Université de Montréal, 2009-09)
May a government attempt to improve the lives of its citizens by promoting the activities it deems valuable and discouraging those it disvalues? May it engage in such a practice even when doing so is not a requirement of ...
The ethical dilemma of lifestyle change: designing for sustainable schools and sustainable citizenship
(Centre de recherche en éthique de l'Université de Montréal, 2009-05)
his paper explores how participation and sustainability are being addressed by architects within
the Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme in the UK. The intentions promoted by the
programme are certainly ...
Swimming upstream: navigating ethical practices in the creation of a participatory youth media workshop
(Centre de recherche en éthique de l'Université de Montréal, 2009-05)
Despite the growing popularity of participatory video as a tool for facilitating youth empowerment, the methodology and impacts of the practice are extremely understudied. This paper describes a study design created to ...
Growing up expectations. Better understanding the expectations of community partners in participatory action research projects
(Centre de recherche en éthique de l'Université de Montréal, 2009-05)
This paper challenges the assumption that youth and youth agencies are in a condition of equality when entering a participatory action research (PAR). By asserting that it is not a state of
equality that practitioners ...
Youth engagement: the ethics of inclusion and exclusion
(Centre de recherche en éthique de l'Université de Montréal, 2009-05)
This study focuses on the engagement of children and youth in their communities and the ways
they are included in and excluded from community life. Using a content analysis of a small town
United States newspaper over ...
Everyday Ethics: Framing youth participation in organizational practice
(Centre de recherche en éthique de l'Université de Montréal, 2009-05)
Much of the literature on ethical issues in child and youth participation has drawn on the episodic experiences of participatory research efforts in which young people’s input has been sought,
transcribed and represented. ...
Participation as capacity-building for active citizenship
(Centre de recherche en éthique de l'Université de Montréal, 2009-05)
Within the framework of the “capability approach” to human rights, this paper argues that adults
who facilitate participatory planning and design with children and youth have an ethical obligation to foster young people’s ...
Doing Justice to Recognition
(Centre de recherche en éthique de l'Université de Montréal, 2009-06)
The traditional role of justice is to arbitrate where the good will of people is not enough, if even present, to settle a dispute between the concerned parties. It is a procedural approach that assumes a fractured relationship ...