The Search for Political Community: American Activists Reinventing Commitment

ISBN-13: 9780521483438 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 292 str.

Paul Lichterman; Steven Seidman; Jeffrey C. Alexander

Opis

This book challenges the myth that individualism necessarily weakens commitments to the common good. It examines environmental and other activist groups in which individualism sometimes enhances political commitment. Rather than criticize individualism and favor a return to "traditional" values, Paul Lichterman examines the untraditional, personalized politics of many recent social movements and invites us to rethink common understandings of commitment, community, and individualism in a post-traditional world.

Recenzje

"Paul Lichterman's book is a good example of how social science knowledge can inform community practice." James Midgley, Social Science Review

Spis treści

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.