Taking Responsibility for Tomorrow: Remaking Collective Governance as Political Ancestors
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Author(s)
Tsai, Lily L
Date Issued
February 28, 2023
Journal
Daedalus
Publisher
MIT Press
Citation
Lily L. Tsai; Taking Responsibility for Tomorrow: Remaking Collective Governance as Political Ancestors. Daedalus 2023; 152 (1): 258–264.
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Final published version
Abstract
In learning from older and past collective governance practices, we must design new institutions with an ethos that underscores our roles not only as descendants from past innovators but also as ancestors who have a responsibility to provide such legacies for the future. Governance archaeology can only realize its full moral and generative potential when it is practiced in a way that acknowledges our responsibility to future humans as well as past ones. This essay thus argues for the need to include future humans in the “we” of collective governance for distributive equity as well as procedural justice.
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https://doi.org/10.1162/daed_a_01986
