Citizen Speak - The Democratic Imagination in American Life

For "Citizen Speak," Perrin met with labor, church, business, and sports organizations and proposed to them four fictive scenarios: what if your senator is involved in a scandal, or your police department is engaged in racial profiling, or a local factory violates pollution laws, or your nearby airport is slated for expansion? The conversations these challenges inspire, Perrin shows, require imagination. And what people can imagine doing in response to those scenarios depends on what's possible, what's important, what's right, and what's feasible. By talking with one another, an engaged citizenry draws from a repertoire of personal and institutional resources to understand and reimagine responses to situations as they arise. Building on such political discussions, "Citizen Speak "shows how a rich culture of association and democratic discourse provides the infrastructure for a healthy democracy. Zusammenfassung When we think about what constitutes being a good citizen, routine activities like voting, letter-writing, and paying attention to the news spring to mind. This title argues that these activities play only a small part in democratic citizenship - a form of citizenship that requires creative thinking, talking, and acting.

Product details

• Authors: Andrew J. Perrin, Perrin Andrew J.
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2006
• EAN: 9780226660790
• ISBN: 978-0-226-66079-0
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Morality and Society Series
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship, United States of America, USA, Civil rights & citizenship, Civics and citizenship