03831nam 2200937 a 450 991078202460332120230525074521.00-8147-9088-710.18574/nyu/9780814790885(CKB)1000000000522876(EBL)2081667(OCoLC)913695269(SSID)ssj0000281523(PQKBManifestationID)11239890(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000281523(PQKBWorkID)10306485(PQKB)10987616(Au-PeEL)EBL2081667(CaPaEBR)ebr10176212(Au-PeEL)EBL3025597(DE-B1597)548180(DE-B1597)9780814790885(MiAaPQ)EBC2081667(MiAaPQ)EBC3025597(EXLCZ)99100000000052287620060911d2007 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrLocal democracy under siege[electronic resource] activism, public interests, and private politics /Dorothy Holland ... [et al.]New York New York University Pressc20071 online resource (368 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8147-3678-5 0-8147-3677-7 Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-284) and index.Experimenting with democracy -- Landscapes in transition -- Hope, fear, and political autobiography -- Racial framing -- Public goods for private ends : the redirection of schooling -- Local politics and the contemporary American scene -- Imagining local futures : who sets priorities for the present? -- Public business as usual -- Against American plutocracy : democratizing our communities, one by one -- Counter experiments for democracy : activism on new political terrain -- It's up to us : from local politics to a democratic America?2007 Society for the Anthropology of North America (SANA) Book Award Complete List of Authors:Dorothy Holland, Donald M. Nonini, Catherine Lutz, Lesley Bartlett, Marla Frederick-McGlathery, Thaddeus C. Guldbrandsen, and Enrique G. Murillo, Jr. What is the state of democracy at the turn of the twenty-first century? To answer this question, seven scholars lived for a year in five North Carolina communities. They observed public meetings of all sorts, had informal and formal interviews with people, and listened as people conversed with each other at bus stops and barbershops, soccer games andPolitical participationNorth CarolinaPolitical anthropologyNorth CarolinaPolitical cultureNorth CarolinaDemocracyNorth CarolinaNorth CarolinaPolitics and governmentThis.active.book.changes.decades.democratic.difficult.economic.have.illustrates.last.made.making.more.others.participation.possible.routes.social.some.three.while.Political participationPolitical anthropologyPolitical cultureDemocracy320.809756Holland Dorothy, authttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1494160Holland Dorothy C1494160MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910782024603321Local democracy under siege3806651UNINA