Book Review : Creating spaces of engagement: policy justice & the practical craft of deliberative democracy: edited by Leah Levac & Sarah Marie Wiebe, Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2020, 459 pp., ISBN 9781487523251

Creating Spaces of Engagement is an excellent transdisciplinary book addressing the potentialities of participatory and deliberative practices in creating new spaces for engaging diverse voices to advance policy justice. In this book, policy justice refers to 'a commitment to advancing public policy with intentionally anti-oppressive and social justice-oriented aims' (p.6). The role of spaces of engagement in policy justice is that they help to include diverse knowledge systems, forms of evidence, and most importantly, (especially marginalized) people into anti-oppressive policy-making processes to guide desirable policy outcomes.