1st Edition

Creative Participation Responsibility-Taking in the Political World

224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

Creative Participation presents the theory and practice of new innovative forms of political participation. Examples covered in the book include consumers engaging in political shopping, capitalists building green developments, UK Muslim youth campaigning on the internet, Sicilian housewives taking on the Mafia, young evangelical ministers becoming concerned with social change and vegetarians... Read more
Chapter One Introduction, Michele Micheletti; Chapter Two Why Creative Participation Today?, Andrew S. McFarland; Chapter Three Swarming, Alexandra Segerberg; Chapter Four Two Faces of Political Participation, James L. Guth; Chapter Five Grammars of Political Action Among Urban Muslim Youth, Therese O’Toole, Richard Gale; Chapter Six Capitalist Housing Developers as Green Activists, John S. Watson; Chapter Seven Everyday Shopping to Fight the Mafia in Italy, Francesca Forno, Carina Gunnarson; Chapter Eight Vegetarianism—A Lifestyle Politics?, Michele Micheletti, Dietlind Stolle; Chapter Nine Is Creative Participation Good for Democracy?, Jan W. van Deth; Chapter Ten Creative Participation, Kay Lehman Schlozman;

Biography

Michele Micheletti, Andrew S. McFarland