Jon Alexander

Citizens

Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

When businesses, charities and governments treat people as citizens, everything changes. We become equipped to face the big challenges of inequality, climate, pandemics and polarisation. So let's end the age of the consumer and begin the age of the citizen! With case studies from Kenya to Birmingham of inspiring individuals making a better future.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Canbury Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. März 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 195mm x 129mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 182g
• ISBN-13: 9781912454884
• ISBN-10: 1912454882
• Artikelnr.: 66266768

Autorenporträt

Jon Alexander began his career with success in advertising, winning the prestigious Big Creative Idea of the Year before making a dramatic change. Driven by a deep need to understand the impact on society of 3,000 commercial messages a day, he gathered three Masters degrees, exploring consumerism and its alternatives from every angle. In 2014, he co-founded the New Citizenship Project to bring the resulting ideas into contact with reality. In Citizens, he is ready to share them with the world.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword. Brian Eno sets out the value of Citizens in framing a new
optimistic cooperative story for our age
as opposed to the two other options: authoritarian states such as China and "Siliconia" - "a Consumer state with centralised power and deep surveillance". Mentions Citizen Story 1. Opening. Jon Alexander sets out the need to 'step into' the Citizen Story so that we can deal with the many challenges of our age: economic insecurity
ecological emergency
public health threats
political polarisation
and more. Mentions citizens
economic insecurity
ecological emergency 2. Citizens Everywhere. How humans are bound together through interdependence and reciprocity
and in turn have a deep bond with nature
which conventional big business cannot understand. Picks apart the self-dependence and utilitarian philosophy of tech billionaires Peter Thiel and Mark Zuckerberg 3. Citizens By Nature. Central to the Citizen Story is a belief in ourselves and in human nature as creative
capable
and caring
rather than lazy
self-interested
and competitive within a zero-sum framework. Any redesign of institutions will fail if we haven’t embraced this fundamental belief 4. We're All Consumers Now. The launch of the consumer age
by way of Apple's advert for its new Macintosh at the US SuperBowl in 1984. Mentions Apple Macintosh
Ridley Scott
consumer demand
Consumer Story
George Orwell 1984
Virgin Atlantic
Richard Branson
IKEA
Walmart
Virgin Galactic 5. Once We Were Subjects. Before the Consumer
there was another story: the Subject
as in ‘subjects of the king.’ In this story
the Great Man – the Chief
Pope
King
Boss
Father – knows best. The rest of us are innocents
ignorant of important matters. Mentions King Sargon of Akkad and Mesopotamia 6. Citizen NGOs. The Consumer Story is falling apart
but the truth alone is not enough to ensure it passes to the Citizen Story. We must act too
to seize control of our futures
and to ensure that we actually have a future. Case studies include the National Trust in the UK 7. Citizen Business. How businesses can harness the power of the Citizen Story to make their workings more popular and inclusive
and to drive forward societal change. Case studies include the brewery BrewDog in Stonehaven
Scotland. Mentions Martin Dickie
Tesco
craft beer
Equity Punks 8. Citizen Government. Taiwan has pioneered the application of citizen government
in stark comparison to Communist China
which offers a vision of an alternative
authoritarian future. Mentions Taiwan
Taipei
Economic Power Up Plan
Tarek el-Tayeb Mohamed Bouazizi
Arab Spring
Sunflower Revolution 9. Closing. A new Citizen movement is building. Examples include Paris approving a standing Citizens' Assembly and Chile's Citizen-driven Constitutional Convention. Mentions Delian Aspourhov
Restor
Founders Fund
Varda Space Industries
Francis Suarez
Elon Musk
Balaji Srinavasaran Writing Citizens. The book has been a collaborative process involving several different sets of people and organisations
including not least the New Citizenship Project team References. The author thanks
among others
Jo Hunter
Emma Ashru Jones
Tendai Chetse
Anna Maria Hosford
National Trust
Helen Meech
Fallon advertising agency
Iris Schönherr
Ariane Conrad
OuiShare Fest
Food Ethics Council
Chris Seeley Index. A full index of terms used in the book
such as participatory democracy
Certified B Corporations
citizens assemblies
and sortition