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Local Democracy Under Siege – Activism, Public Interests, and Private Politics de Dorothy Holland

Local Democracy Under Siege – Activism, Public Interests, and Private Politics

Autor Dorothy Holland, Catherine Lutz, Lesley Bartlett, Thaddeus C. Guldbrandsen, Marla Frederick–mcgla
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 feb 2007

2007 Society for the Anthropology of North America (SANA) Book Award
Complete List of Authors:Dorothy Holland, Donald M. Nonini, Catherine Lutz, Lesley Bartlett, Marla Frederick-McGlathery, Thaddeus C. Guldbrandsen, and Enrique G. Murillo, Jr.
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 Carolina communities. 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 barbershops, 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.
Complete List of Authors (pictured)
From Left to Right, bottom row: Enrique Murillo, Jr., Thaddeus Guldbrandsen, Marla Frederick-McGlathery.
Top row: Dorothy Holland, Catherine Lutz, Lesley Bartlett, and Don Nonini.

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ISBN-13: 9780814736784
ISBN-10: 0814736785
Pagini: 368
Ilustrații: maps
Dimensiuni: 153 x 228 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.44 kg
Editura: MI – New York University

Recenzii

"Local Democracy Under Siege argues persuasively that American democracy is at a pivotal moment where the forces of exclusion and the ideology of market rule contest with new forms of political activism and engaged citizenship. Readers will see many of the same issues that North Carolina faces in their own communities and will take away new perspectives on power, race, class, and activism from this cogent and timely analysis.”
—Louise Lamphere, Past President of the American Anthropological Association "Produces new insights into the ‘makeover’ of local government”—Choice "Debates about democracy often get stuck at the national scale. But the capacity for ordinary people to shape the conditions of their lives through politics and public speech is often greatest at the local level. This important book opens up anthropological perspectives on how this happens. It situates the challenges of local politics amid the constraints of neoliberalism, but also reports on the creative solutions different communities have developed to the distinctive problems they face.”
—Craig Calhoun, President, Social Science Research Council "This book opens up the crucial questions of what democracy means in the U.S. today and the ways in which everyday Americans struggle to make themselves heard. Conceptually, methodologically, and theoretically this book realizes the potential for anthropological analysis as a way to understand the dangers of increasing inequality in the contemporary U.S. It is a major contribution.”
—Ida Susser, author of Norman Street: Poverty and Politics in an Urban Neighborhood "A luminous work about everyday citizens that should free up local democratic energies across the land! "
—Aihwa Ong, author of Neoliberalism as Exception: Mutations in Citizenship and Sovereignty "This unique study provides a vital enquiry into the troubled times of local democracy and poses critical questions about its future in the USA."
—John Clarke, author of Changing Welfare, Changing States "Nicely illustrates the problems that plague local democracy.”
—Political Science Quarterly
"Local Democracy Under Siege argues persuasively that American democracy is at a pivotal moment where the forces of exclusion and the ideology of market rule contest with new forms of political activism and engaged citizenship. Readers will see many of the same issues that North Carolina faces in their own communities and will take away new perspectives on power, race, class, and activism from this cogent and timely analysis." --Louise Lamphere, Past President of the American Anthropological Association "Produces new insights into the 'makeover' of local government"--Choice "Debates about democracy often get stuck at the national scale. But the capacity for ordinary people to shape the conditions of their lives through politics and public speech is often greatest at the local level. This important book opens up anthropological perspectives on how this happens. It situates the challenges of local politics amid the constraints of neoliberalism, but also reports on the creative solutions different communities have developed to the distinctive problems they face." --Craig Calhoun, President, Social Science Research Council "This book opens up the crucial questions of what democracy means in the U.S. today and the ways in which everyday Americans struggle to make themselves heard. Conceptually, methodologically, and theoretically this book realizes the potential for anthropological analysis as a way to understand the dangers of increasing inequality in the contemporary U.S. It is a major contribution." --Ida Susser, author of Norman Street: Poverty and Politics in an Urban Neighborhood "A luminous work about everyday citizens that should free up local democratic energies across the land! " --Aihwa Ong, author of Neoliberalism as Exception: Mutations in Citizenship and Sovereignty "This unique study provides a vital enquiry into the troubled times of local democracy and poses critical questions about its future in the USA." --John Clarke, author of Changing Welfare, Changing States "Nicely illustrates the problems that plague local democracy." --Political Science Quarterly

Notă biografică

Dorothy C. Holland was Boshamer Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She was a co-author of Local Democracy Under Siege: Activism, Public Interests and Private Politics.