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By analysing experiences of a Civic Preference Forum organised for community gardeners in Hungary in 2017, our paper’s aim is twofold. We investigate if the Civic Preference Forum was an adequate format to enable discursive participation. Then we provide evidence on how this deliberative method can be applied on common-pool institution design gaining scientific knowledge about community gardening. Community gardeners, garden coordinators and experts were invited to the pilot Civic Preference Forum to share their experiences, problems, doubts, solutions, and opinions related to community gardening. First, the potential link between community gardening and deliberation is discussed and the method of Civic Preference Forum is introduced and placed among the deliberative and participative methods. Then by the lessons of the forum on community gardening it is demonstrated how the method can deliver insights for participants, decision-makers and academia. Participants’ preferences and wishes are analysed by applying and testing the criteria of discourse quality analysis. It is argued that the Civic Preference Forum fulfilled the criteria of equal and open discursive participation and the analytic dimensions of evaluating the discourse worked well in the case of a Civic Preference Forum. Enclave deliberations based on proximity may differ from collective identity-based ones in terms of composition and implications. The first may result intra-group discursive equality, while the second may provide inter-group equality. Beside the methodological findings, the explored positive and negative side effects and limitations of the methods, the forum delivered new scientific knowledge on community gardens as common-pool resources, which helps to better understand the mechanisms in community projects. We learned that community gardeners’ discourse was focused on such nodal themes as dependence and independence, monitoring and control, active and passive membership, equal and unequal participation, free riding and collective action, rules and norms of land cultivation and behaviour. Civic Preference Forum as a method enabled participants to clarify preferences, thematise problems and wishes as well as exchange ideas on possible solutions to them.

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to update the Global Model of Public Mental Health (GMPMH) in light of the WHO QualityRights project. Design/methodology/approach – Being able to refer to international conventions and human rights standards is a key component of a genuine global approach that is supportive of individuals and communities in their quest for recovery and full citizenship. The GMPMH was inspired by the ecological approach in health promotion programs, adding to that approach the individuals as agents of mental health policies and legislation transformation. The GMPMH integrates recovery- and citizenship-oriented psychiatric practices through the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion (WHO, 1986). Findings – Updating the GMPMH through the WHO QualityRights Toolkit highlights the need for a new form of governance body, namely the Civic Forum, which is inclusive of local communities and persons in recovery. People with mental health disabilities, intellectual disabilities, and substance use conditions can be “included in the community” (UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Article 19) only if the community is informed and welcoming, for instance through a Civic Forum and its organizing Local Council of Mental Health. Research limitations/implications – Transition from social marginalization to full citizenship represents a daunting challenge in public mental health care. An approach that focuses primarily on individuals is not sufficient in creating access to valued roles those individuals will be able to occupy in community settings. Instead, public intervention and debate are required to promote and monitor the bond of citizenship that connects people to their communities. Originality/value – The GMPMH is the result of a conceptual cross-breeding between recovery and health promotion (WHO, 1986). The GMPMH is an offspring of the ecological approach in health promotion programs, adding to that approach individuals as agents of mental health transformation. It refers to international conventions and human rights standards as a central component of a genuine global approach. A community-based participatory research design is well suited, which includes a Civic Forum for local communities to become involved and supportive of service users in their quality and human rights assessments.

The end of the communist regime in Czechoslovakia in 1989 has opened the thorny question of how to deal with the communist legacy. This paper focuses on important aspects of decommunization at the beginning of the 1990s and analyzes the role they played in the disintegration of the Civic Forum and in the emergence of the Civic Democratic Party. The paper shows that the decommunization agenda gradually became a significant divisive factor within the Civic Forum and served as one of the key issues through which the Civic Democratic Party defined itself. It also provided an opportunity for politicians skilled enough to grasp this issue to do so and to incorporate it into their wider political agendas.

On one hand, it focuses on the history of the New York City-based American Geographical Society, which was not only the premier geographical institution in the country but also a bastion of bourgeois culture and presumption; on the other hand, the book explores this topic through a broad discussion of the life of Charles P. Daly, a judge and broader public figure in New York City. Does Daly's life tell us anything of relevance here? I would argue that, on one hand, the breakdown of any contradiction between imperialism and liberal reformism, conservatism and liberalism is very evident in Daly's sometime successor as the leader of the ags, Isaiah Bowman, and that, on the other, the dichotomy between liberalism and conservatism was very much a post facto artifact of specifically U.S. politics following World War I (Smith 2008).

[...]linking Daly's interests in constructing railroads in the west with canal building in Nicaragua and drawing out the connections between his reform efforts in New York City and his commercial \"mission\" in the Congo make explicit what was leftimplicit in Civic Discipline: an understanding of the co-constitutive nature of America's imperial projects-the nineteenth-century extension of space to the Pacific and its twentieth- century project of global dominance.

Because the ags devoted much of its early efforts to exploration of the Arctic, it's appropriate to focus a review entirely on that region. [...]it's appropriate to say a few words about chapter 7, \"Postscript: Reclaiming Charles P. Daly, Prospects and Problems,\" part of which appeared recently in the Professional Geographer under the title \"Unpopular Archives\" (Morin 2008b).

In 1851, descriptive statistics, which aren't all that computational, were at the forefront of science, like taxonomic classification a century earlier or inferential statistics a century later or gis today. To use a metaphor equally unflattering to her and to me, it is as if a paleontologist overlooked a surviving coelacanth, relying instead on the fossil record.\\n\" Why this particular exceptionalism for geography? If that is true, how can the ags still have three former presidents of the Association of American Geographers, one former president of the National Council for Geographic Education, and one former president of the Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers on its council?

The author wants to first offer a sincere thanks to all the commentators for taking the time to read her book and for providing such collegial and provocative comments about it. She did not intend to write a biography of Charles Daly, nor did she intend to write a history of the American Geographical Society. Her interest began with what she saw as a missing piece, a relatively unstudied period in the history of American geography before it was codified as an academic discipline and before the National Geographic Society and later the Association of American Geographers came on the scene. The research took shape then around the nodal figure of Daly as one very powerful influence on nineteenth-century geography. It became a story about how Daly's geographical sensibility and imagination, situated within other social parameters -- American expansionism, industrialization, and urbanization -- manifested in social and commercial projects, at home and abroad.

All of these practices were methods of disciplining geography; for Daly they were also ways of directing geographical knowledge to legal, financial, and political ends. [...]it makes sense the agss was founded not just by geographical enthusiasts but by businessmen. By contrast, Neil Smith has extensively discussed Bowman's legacy through the AGS in terms of his influence on American preparations after World War I. Similarly, several of us have chronicled the influential legacy established by Gilbert Grosvenor at the National Geographic Society (Schulten 2001; Poole 2004; Rothenberg 2007).

We have glimpsed already how spokespersons for Civic Forum and Public against Violence understood these associations’ role in revolutionary society. OF-VPN in Komárno declared that it was “a means of citizens’ self-defense and a check on state power.” VPN in Nové Zámky identified itself with “the will of the people.” Petr Pithart emphasized that Civic Forum represented the square, the seat of popular authority. From the beginning, the civic associations identified themselves as the voice of the public, expressing its demands and able to take action to ensure their fulfillment.² During the week prior to the General Strike, Václav Havel