Free Spaces: The Sources of Democratic Change in America

Evans, Sara M.; Boyte, Harry C.

ISBN 10: 0226222578 / ISBN 13: 9780226222578

Editore: University of Chicago Press (edition 49612th), 1992

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Riassunto:

What are the environments, the public spaces, in which ordinary people become participants in the complex, ambiguous, engaging conversation about democracy: participators in governance rather than spectators or complainers, victims or accomplices? What are the roots, not simply of movements against oppression, but also of those democratic social movements which both enlarge the opportunities for participation and enhance people's ability to participate in the public world?

In Free Spaces, Sara M. Evans and Harry C. Boyte argue for a new understanding of the foundations for democratic politics by analyzing the settings in which people learn to participate in democracy. In their new Introduction, the authors link the concept of free spaces to recent theoretical discussions about community, public life, civil society, and social movements.

Informazioni sull?autore:

Sara M. Evans is Chair of the Department of History at the University of Minnesota and the author of Personal Politics and coauthor (with Barbara J. Nelson) of Wage Justice. Harry C. Boyte is Director of Project Public Life at the University of Minnesota and the author of The Backyard Revolution and Commonwealth.

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Titolo: Free Spaces: The Sources of Democratic ...
Casa editrice: University of Chicago Press (edition 49612th)
Data di pubblicazione: 1992
Legatura: Paperback
Condizione: Fair
Edizione: 49612th.