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Direct Action: An Ethnography
Anthropologist David Graeber undertakes the first detailed ethnographic study of the global justice movement. The case study at the center of Direct Action is the organizing and events that led to the one of the most dramatic and militant mass … Continue reading
It’s Not Just Indignation: Inventing new ways of doing politics
It’s true that we’re indignant. But not just that. If it were just indignation that brought us together in the streets and squares of our cities, the movement would have less force. Once the moment of excitement had passed we … Continue reading
The Subversion of Politics: European Autonomous Social Movements and the Decolonization of Everyday Life
A gripping account of European autonomous social movements from 1968 to the present. Since the modern anti-globalization movement kicked off with the 1999 WTO protests in Seattle, a new generation has been engaging in anti-capitalist direct action. Its aims, politics, … Continue reading
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Social Media and the Revival of American Democracy
Read Campaigns in the United States increasingly boil down to an unseemly competition for cash. Why not rely on social media, instead of radio and TV, as key campaign communications mechanisms — and thus free U.S. democracy from the debilitating … Continue reading
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The governance of problems: puzzling, powering, participation
Read Policy analysis usually gives more attention to problem solving than problem finding and there is a real threat of mismatch between problem perceptions by citizens and problem definition by their elected and appointed policy makers. Contemporary democracies need to … Continue reading
Posted in Citizenship, Governance, Participation, Politics, Problem solving
Tagged governance, power, problem finding, problem solving, problems, public policy
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Living in the Age of Imposed Amnesia: The Eclipse of Democratic Formative Culture
Living in the Age of Imposed Amnesia: The Eclipse of Democratic Formative Culture The importance of formative culture as a mode of civic education in the shaping of democratic values and critical agents can be found in the work of … Continue reading
Posted in Capitalism, Citizenship, Cohesion, Culture, Democracy, Politics, Social inclusion
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