Sarah Wong

In local communities, residents are much less prone to ignore any threat or dis-comfort a neighbor might experience. Instead, locals are more willing to get in-volved on an assumed victim’s behalf, especially when the neighbor is absent or somehow unaware of what is going on.

The self is not found, it is made

“... careerism tends to undermine democracy by divorcing knowledge from practical experience, devaluing the kind of knowledge that is gained from that experience, and generating social conditions in which ordinary people are not expected to know anything at all. The reign of specialized expertise … is the antithesis of democracy.”

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We define belonging as a combination of role and fit.

the notion of the “community”, be that place‐based (a neighbourhood) or identity‐based (a specific group of raced, ethnic, classed or religious people)

An imbalance in power relations among stakeholders affected by wicked problems is a barrier to problem resolution. Power dynamics permeate societal systems; its structures, cultural norms, material artifacts and technologies etc;

Climate Assembly UK had 108 members selected through a process known as ‘sortition’ or a ‘civic lottery’ to be representative of the UK population.