Local Democracy Under Siege : Activism, Public Interests, and Private Politics / Dorothy Holland, Donald M. Nonini, Catherine Lutz, Lesley Bartlett, Marla Frederick-McGlathery, Thaddeus C. Guldbrandsen, Enrique G. Murillo.
Holland, Dorothy, author.; Frederick-McGlathery, Marla, author.; Guldbrandsen, Thaddeus C., author.; Lutz, Catherine, author.; Murillo, Enrique G., author.; Nonini, Donald M., author.
2007
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Title Local Democracy Under Siege : Activism, Public Interests, and Private Politics / Dorothy Holland, Donald M. Nonini, Catherine Lutz, Lesley Bartlett, Marla Frederick-McGlathery, Thaddeus C. Guldbrandsen, Enrique G. Murillo.
Author Holland, Dorothy, author.
ISBN 9780814790885
DOI https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814790885.001.0001
Published New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2007]
Copyright ©2007
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers 10.18574/nyu/9780814790885.001.0001 doi
Dewey Decimal Classification 320.809756
Summary 2007 Society for the Anthropology of North America (SANA) Book AwardComplete 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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Added Author Frederick-McGlathery, Marla, author.
Guldbrandsen, Thaddeus C., author.
Lutz, Catherine, author.
Murillo, Enrique G., author.
Nonini, Donald M., author.
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Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
1. Experimenting with Democracy
2. Landscapes in Transition
Part I. Limiting Democracy
3. Hope, Fear, and Political Autobiography
4. Racial Framing
5. Public Goods for Private Ends: The Redirection of Schooling
Part II. Governing under Neoliberalism
6. Local Politics and the Contemporary American Scene
7. Imagining Local Futures: Who Sets Priorities for the Present?
8. Public Business as Usual
Part III. Struggling for Democracy
9. Against American Plutocracy: Democratizing Our Communities, One by One
10. Counter Experiments for Democracy: Activism on New Political Terrain
11. It's Up to Us: From Local Politics to a Democratic America?
Appendix: Democracy and Political Theory Why Participatory Democracy?
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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