(Even today, the primary locus for fantasy scenarios in which lone heroes do battle with demons and bad guys in archaic or futuristic landscapes is not movies but video and computer games, which are open-ended and participatory in ways that even a boxed-set DVD version of a movie can never be).
The third and fourth norms express the requirements of distributive and participatory justice in a world that has reached or is exceeding resource production, pollution, and population limits.6 An "Ecological Reformation" is now on the agenda of Christian theology and ethics.
Portes (1998 18) explains that "civicness" is commonly "equated with the level of associational involvement and participatory behaviour in a community and is measured by indicators such as newspaper reading, membership of voluntary associations, and expressions of trust in political authorities".
The Kuna Yala General Congress in Panama, for example, has prepared its own integrated territorial development plan that combines biodiversity conservation, land conflict resolution, sustainable livelihoods and participatory research in a territory-wide plan.
And yet somehow it feels participatory in a way that the weighty HBO drama does not.
"We want to make TV participatory in a way that gets kids wriggling and hopping," Mr. Jinkins said.
There is a high added value of engaging in an inclusive and participatory exercise involving a wide range of stakeholders and perspectives.
UNICEF supported the development of the Situation Analysis in an innovative and participatory way in consultation with members of governmental and non-governmental bodies, young people, members of disadvantaged communities, and children with disabilities or those living in institutions.
But establishing effective ways to objectively identify and measure progress towards specific targets, but in an impartial and participatory way, remains a challenge.
This approach provides a substantial mechanism for embedding scholarly practice as an action of engagement in open and participatory environments, with a focus on best practice, rather than avoidance of plagiarism.
Crocker (2008: chapters 9 10) explores the theory and practice of deliberative democracy to bring more specificity to democratic procedures and participatory institutions in the development of an agency-sensitive capability approach.
