Freedom Is an Endless Meeting Democracy in American Social Movements
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This "excellent study of activist politics in the United States over the past century" challenges the conventional wisdom about participatory democracy (
Times Literary Supplement).
Freedom Is an Endless Meetingoffers vivid portraits of American experiments in participatory democracy throughout the twentieth century. Drawing on meticulous research and more than one hundred interviews with activists, Francesca Polletta upends the notion that participatory democracy is worthy in purpose but unworkable in practice. Instead, she shows that social movements have often used bottom-up decision making as a powerful tool for political change.
Polletta traces the history of democracy from early labor struggles and pre-World War II pacifism, through the civil rights, new left, and women's liberation movements of the sixties and seventies, and into today's faith-based organizing and anti-corporate globalization campaigns. In the process, she uncovers neglected sources of democratic inspiration-such as Depression-era labor educators and Mississippi voting registration workers-as well as practical strategies of social protest.
Polletta also highlights the obstacles that arise when activists model their democracies after nonpolitical relationships such as friendship, tutelage, and religious fellowship. She concludes with a call to forge new kinds of democratic relationships that balance trust with accountability, respect with openness to disagreement, and caring with inclusiveness. For anyone concerned about the prospects for democracy in America,
Freedom Is an Endless Meetingwill offer abundant historical, theoretical, and practical insights.
Times Literary Supplement).
Freedom Is an Endless Meetingoffers vivid portraits of American experiments in participatory democracy throughout the twentieth century. Drawing on meticulous research and more than one hundred interviews with activists, Francesca Polletta upends the notion that participatory democracy is worthy in purpose but unworkable in practice. Instead, she shows that social movements have often used bottom-up decision making as a powerful tool for political change.
Polletta traces the history of democracy from early labor struggles and pre-World War II pacifism, through the civil rights, new left, and women's liberation movements of the sixties and seventies, and into today's faith-based organizing and anti-corporate globalization campaigns. In the process, she uncovers neglected sources of democratic inspiration-such as Depression-era labor educators and Mississippi voting registration workers-as well as practical strategies of social protest.
Polletta also highlights the obstacles that arise when activists model their democracies after nonpolitical relationships such as friendship, tutelage, and religious fellowship. She concludes with a call to forge new kinds of democratic relationships that balance trust with accountability, respect with openness to disagreement, and caring with inclusiveness. For anyone concerned about the prospects for democracy in America,
Freedom Is an Endless Meetingwill offer abundant historical, theoretical, and practical insights.
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