How play matters for democracy
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F67985955%3A_____%2F22%3A00552656" target="_blank" >RIV/67985955:_____/22:00552656 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003122289-1" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003122289-1</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003122289-1" target="_blank" >10.4324/9781003122289-1</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
How play matters for democracy
Original language description
The chapter maps different approaches of play studies towards the question of democracy. It enumerates the reasons why researchers explore the role and importance of play in social behaviour, social cohesion, conflict management, cultural dialogue, or policy-making and democratic life. It shows that the context of current societal and political challenges urges the community of play researchers to revisit the relationship between play and politics, or the contribution of play to imagining and creating more viable alternatives for the lives of communities. The authors introduce the term democracy as well as play as polysemic and ambiguous. The chapter argues that since these notions disrupt security, clarity and certitude of academic discourse, they also activate vigilance, a knowing how to work with open concepts, an academic practice of democracy as openness. The chapter further identifies four domains where the intertwining of democracy and play seems in particular philosophically inspiring: the philosophy of play and democracy in relationship to normativity, playful activism and democracy embodied in urban spaces, art and its power to resist political and normative dominance, and paradoxes of play and democracy in education.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA19-20031S" target="_blank" >GA19-20031S: Towards a New Ontology of Social Cohesion</a><br>
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Book/collection name
Play and Democracy: Philosophical perspectives
ISBN
978-0-367-64127-6
Number of pages of the result
10
Pages from-to
1-10
Number of pages of the book
264
Publisher name
Routledge
Place of publication
London
UT code for WoS chapter
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