Creative Participation: Responsibility-Taking in the Political World

by Michele Micheletti, Andrew S. McFarland

Overview

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 making political statements. The authors show how in these new campaigns individuals swarm like honeybees around particular issues, causing those in power to sit up and take notice. This is the essential guide to the new politics of participation.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781317261896
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/03/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	224
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Michele Micheletti, Andrew S. McFarland

Table of Contents

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;