Buch, Englisch, 280 Seiten
Civic Action in the Civil Sphere
Buch, Englisch, 280 Seiten
ISBN: 978-1-5095-7722-4
Verlag: Polity Press
Making Democratic Life: Civic Action in the Civil Sphere shows how civic culture shapes capacities and outcomes in struggles over inclusion and equity, inside institutions and on the streets. In this collection of international cases, civic actors wrestle with environmental catastrophe, gentrification, restrictive immigration policies and democratic backsliding, among other issues. Scholars of democracy and culture can learn how civil rhetoric and styles of collective civic action work in tandem, shaping the limits of acceptable debate, facilitating some strategies and inhibiting others.
Until now, empirical work on civic culture has followed two lines of inquiry. Civil sphere theory examines the storylines and cultural codes that political leaders, social activists and ordinary citizens alike use to maintain a respectful public arena. Civic action theory finds patterned styles of collective action which cultivate different skills, capacities and understandings of success. Bringing the two lines together, this book presents a comprehensive view of civic culture. It overcomes the tendency to treat everyday action in local sites and national civic discourses in isolation from one another. It reveals practical puzzles collective actors face when they work to expand civil solidarity and confront authoritarianism in a time when some doubt the value of democracy as a way of life.
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Contents
Notes on the Contributors
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction: Conditions of Possibility for Democratic Life: Civic Action in the Civil Sphere
Paul Lichterman and Jeffrey C. Alexander
Chapter 1: "We're doing this to survive": Collective civil interaction in uncivil times.
Anna Lund
Chapter 2: The Internal Civil Sphere in American Catholicism
Richard L. Wood
Chapter 3: From the Livable City to the Accessible City: Civic Action and Community Conflict Over "Good" Urban Development in Toronto
Zachary Hyde
Chapter 4: Inclusion from the Bottom-Up: Different Civic Maps, Same Anti-Democratic Forces for American Muslim Advocates
Valentina Cantori
Chapter 5: Styles of Societalization: How to Beat Environmental Extinction
Liv Egholm
Chapter 6: Civic Action Spheres: Doing Migrant Solidarity through Public Sociability in Ireland
Mervyn Horgan
Chapter 7: "Status for All" and Stylized Solidarities: Migrant Rights Organizing, Civic Action, and the Civil Sphere in Canada
Saara Liinamaa
Chapter 8: From the Battlefield to the Civil Sphere: Constructing Ukrainian War Veterans through Civic Action
Bernadette Nadya Jaworsky and Olga Zhmurko
Chapter 9: How, If at All, Do Pro-Democracy Volunteers Recognize that Democracy Has Died?
Nina Eliasoph
Chapter 10: Innovating Civic Action Styles: Taiwan's 2025 Mass Recall Movement
Ming-Cheng Lo
Chapter 11: Using the F Word: Can We Call Trump Fascist?
Todd Madigan
Comment: Civil Sphere, Civic Action
Lyn Spillman
