Checker / Fishman Local Actions

Cultural Activism, Power, and Public Life in America
1. Auflage 2004
ISBN: 978-0-231-50242-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 280 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Checker, Melissa

Fishman, Maggie

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Kommunal-, Regional-, und Landespolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword, by Faye Ginsburg
Acknowledgments
Introduction, by Melissa Checker and Maggie Fishman
Treading Murky Waters: Day-To-Day Dilemmas in the Construction of a Pluralistic U.S. Environmental Movement, by Melissa Checker
Creating Art, Creating Citizens: Arts Education as Cultural Activism, by Maggie Fishman
Creating a Political Space for American Indian Economic Development: Indian Gaming and American Indian Activism, by Kate Spilde
"The Calculus of Pain": Violence, Anthropological Ethics, and the Category Transgender, by David Valentine
We Shall Overcome? Changing Politics and Changing Sexuality in the Ex-Gay Movement, by Tanya Erzen
Sins of Our Soccer Moms: Servant Evangelism and the Spiritual Injuries of Class, by Omri Elisha
Food Fights: Contesting "Cultural Diversity" in Crown Heights, by Henry Goldschmidt
FOBby or Tight? "Multicultural Day" and Other Struggles in Two Silicon Valley High Schools, by Shalini Shankar
Gathering "Roots" and Making History in the Korean Adoptee Community, by Eleana Kim
Activism and Exile: Palestinianness and the Politics of Solidarity, by Rabab Abdulhadi

Über Autor(innen)

Melissa Checker is assistant professor of applied anthropology at the University of Memphis. Her research on environmental justice activism is the subject of an upcoming ethnography and several articles. She has been involved as an activist in the environmental justice movement. In her own discipline she endeavors to bring anthropological voices into public policy.

Maggie Fishman is completing her doctoral dissertation on the contemporary arts education movement in New York City in the department of anthropology at New York University. She works evaluating arts-in-education programs in New York City public schools and has been active there in various causes, including the creation of a neighborhood school whose curriculum incorporates the tools of ethnography.