Autor: Tommaso Vitale Datum: To: ML movimenti Bicocca Betreff: [movimenti.bicocca] Activism, Public Interests and Private Politics
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> Local Democracy Under Siege: Activism, Public Interests and Private
Politics (Paperback) > by Dorothy Holland (Author), Donald M. Nonini (Author), Catherine
> A. Lutz (Author), Lesley Bartlett (Author), Marla Frederick-
> McGlathery (Author), Thaddeus Countway Guldbrandsen (Author),
> Enrique G. Murillo (Author)
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> · Paperback: 368 pages
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> · Publisher: New York University
> Press (15 Mar 2007)
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> · Language English
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> · ISBN-10: 0814736785
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> ISBN-13: 978-0814736784
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> Synopsis
> What is the state of democracy at the turn of the twenty-first
> century? To answer this question, seven scholars lived for a year
> in five North Carolinacommunities. They observed public meetings of
> all sorts, had informal and formal interviews with people, and
> listened as people conversed with each other at bus stops and
> barber shops, soccer games and workplaces. Their collaborative
> ethnography allows us to understand how diverse members of a
> community - not just the elite - think about and experience
> "politics" in ways that include much more than merely voting. This
> book illustrates how the social and economic changes of the last
> three decades have made some new routes to active democratic
> participation possible while making others more difficult. "Local
> Democracy Under Siege" suggests how we can account for the current
> limitations of U.S. democracy and how remedies can be created that
> ensure more meaningful participation by a greater range of people.
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