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Blee, Kathleen M.

 
9780199842766: Democracy in the Making: How Activist Groups Form
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ISBN 10 : 0199842760 ISBN 13 : 9780199842766
Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 2012

Synopsis

Why do activist groups get stuck in routine ways of talking and acting? And why are these so hard to change? Kathleen Blee provides a provocative answer: that the way grassroots groups start can hamper their ability to invigorate political life and change society for years to come. Important for both scholars and activists, it shows how grassroots activism can better live up to its potential, and pinpoints the pitfalls that activist groups should avoid.

Based on observing more than 60 grassroots groups in Pittsburgh for three years, Democracy in the Making is an unprecedented look at how ordinary people come together to change society. It gives a close-up look at the deliberations of activists on the left and right as they work for animal rights, an end to the drug trade in their neighbourhood, same-sex marriage, global peace, and more. It shows how grassroots activism can provide an alternative to civic disengagement and a forum for envisioning how the world can be transformed. At the same time, it documents how activist groups become mired in dysfunctional and undemocratic patterns that their members dislike but can't fix.

By following grassroots groups from their very beginnings, Blee traces how their sense of what is possible and appropriate shrinks over time as groups develop a shared sense of who they are that forecloses options that were once open. At the same time, she charts the turning points at which options re-open and groups widen their sense of possibility.

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À propos de l'auteur

Kathleen M. Blee is a Distinguished Professor at the University of Pittsburgh and author of Women of the Klan: Racism and Gender in the 1920s and Inside Organized Racism: Women in the Hate Movement

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Éditeur
Oxford University Press Inc
Date d'édition
2012
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0199842760
ISBN 13 
9780199842766
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
224
Coordonnées du fabricant
Oxford University Press
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