Search for Political Community - American Activists Reinventing Commitment

Zusammenfassung This book challenges the myth that individualism necessarily weakens commitments to the common good. Examining environmental and other activist groups in which individualism enhances political commitment! it invites us to rethink understandings of commitment! community! and individualism in a post-traditional world. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Personalism and political commitment; 2. Personalized politics: the case of the US Greens; 3. Speaking out in suburbia; 4. Imagining community, organizing community; 5. Culture, class, and life-ways of activism; 6. Personalized politics and cultural radicalism since the 1960s; 7. The search for political community; Appendices.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Paul Lichterman, Paul (University of Wisconsin Lichterman, Lichterman Paul
• Con la collaborazione di: Jeffrey C. Alexander (Editore), Steven Seidman (Editore)
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 19.09.1996
• EAN: 9780521483438
• ISBN: 978-0-521-48343-8
• Pagine: 292
• Serie: Cambridge Cultural Social Stud; Cambridge Cultural Social Studies
• Categorie: Saggistica > Enciclopedie, opere di consultazione > Enciclopedie, lessici; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Teorie sociologiche; Cultural Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Political activism, Political activism / Political engagement