Paul Lichterman

The Search for Political Community

American Activists Reinventing Commitment
Herausgeber: Alexander, Jeffrey C.; Seidman, Steven

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book challenges they myth that Americans' emphasis on personal fulfillment necessarily weakens commitment to the common good. Drawing on his extensive ethnographic research on a variety of environmentalist groups, Paul Lichterman argues that individualism sometimes enhances public, political commitment.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Juni 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 478g
• ISBN-13: 9780521483438
• ISBN-10: 0521483433
• Artikelnr.: 22177737

Inhaltsangabe

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.