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Cultural Democracy Now

Owen Kelly
Cultural Democracy Now Book PDF

Author : Owen Kelly
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000775075

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Positioning cultural democracy in a historical context and in a context of adjacent movements such as the creative commons, open source movement, and maker movement, this book goes back to first principles and asks what personhood means in the twenty-first century, what cultural democracy means, why we should want it, and how we can work towards it. In this new book, the author provides a timely untangling of the various historical meanings of the term and explores the various ways in which it has been co-opted, suggesting that it has a strength that we should open up to examination with a view to reinvigorating it. Just as importantly, the book situates cultural democracy within the wider framework of progressive political and social movements, and of the impact of new digital information and communication technologies. To those unfamiliar with the term, it introduces cultural democracy through related concepts such as digital cultural politics, participatory democracy, and digital citizenship. Providing a much-needed theoretical take on the growing interest in cultural democracy, this book will be essential reading for students and scholars interested in the arts as well as practitioners and policy makers. It combines theory and practice with a view to inciting both thought and action.

The Silenced Majority

Amy Goodman,Denis Moynihan
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Author : Amy Goodman,Denis Moynihan
Publisher : Haymarket Books
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9781608462315

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A collection of newspaper and magazine articles where Goodman and Moynihan take an anti-establishment stance and get to the heart of today's critical news stories and political events

Democracy Now!

Amy Goodman
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Author : Amy Goodman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781501123597

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"A celebration of the acclaimed television and radio news program Democracy Now! and the extraordinary movements and heroes who have moved our democracy forward. In 1996 Amy Goodman began hosting a show on Pacifica Radio called Democracy Now! to focus on the issues and movements that are too often ignored by the corporate media. Today Democracy Now! is the largest public media collaboration in the US, broadcasting on over 1,400 public television and radio stations around the world, with millions accessing it online at DemocracyNow.org. Now Amy, along with her journalist brother, David, and co-author Denis Moynihan, share stories of the heroes -- the whistleblowers, the organizers, the protesters -- who have brought about remarkable change. This important book looks back over the past two decades of Democracy Now! and the powerful movements and charismatic leaders who are re-shaping our world. Goodman takes the reader along as she goes to where the silence is, bringing out voices from the streets of Ferguson to Staten Island, Wall Street, South Carolina to East Timor -- and other places where people are rising up to demand justice. Democracy Now! is the modern day underground railroad of information, bringing stories from the grassroots to a global audience."--

The Culture Struggle

Michael Parenti
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Author : Michael Parenti
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781609801205

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One of America’s most astute and engaging political analysts, Michael Parenti shows us that culture is a changing process and the product of a dynamic interplay between a wide range of social and political interests. Drawing from cultures around the world, Parenti shows that beliefs and practices are readily subjected to political manipulation, and that many parts of culture are being commodified, separated from their group or communal origins, to be packaged and sold to those who can pay for them. Folk culture is giving way to a corporate market culture. Art, science, medicine, and psychiatry can be used as instruments of cultural control, and even marriage, the "foundation of society," has been misused by heterosexuals across the centuries. Using vivid examples and riveting arguments throughout, ranging from the everyday to the esoteric, and penned with eloquence and irony, The Culture Struggle presents a collection of snapshots of our time.

Culture, Democracy and the Right to Make Art

Alison Jeffers,Gerri Moriarty
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Author : Alison Jeffers,Gerri Moriarty
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781474258371

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Culture, Democracy and the Right to Make Art by Alison Jeffers,Gerri Moriarty Pdf

Based on the words and experiences of the people involved, this book tells the story of the community arts movement in the UK, and, through a series of essays, assesses its influence on present day participatory arts practices. Part I offers the first comprehensive account of the movement, its history, rationale and modes of working in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales; Part II brings the work up to the present, through a scholarly assessment of its influence on contemporary practice that considers the role of technologies and networks, training, funding, commissioning and curating socially engaged art today. The community arts movement was a well-known but little understood and largely undocumented creative revolution that began as part of the counter-cultural scene in the late 1960s. A wide range of art forms were developed, including large processions with floats and giant puppets, shadow puppet shows, murals and public art, events on adventure playgrounds and play schemes, outdoor events and fireshows. By the middle of the 1980s community arts had changed and diversified to the point where its fragmentation meant that it could no longer be seen as a coherent movement. Interviews with the early pioneers provide a unique insight into the arts practices of the time. Culture, Democracy and the Right to Make Art is not simply a history because the legacy and influence of the community arts movement can be seen in a huge range of diverse locations today. Anyone who has ever encountered a community festival or educational project in a gallery or museum or visited a local arts centre could be said to be part of the on-going story of the community arts. This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com . It is funded by the University of Manchester.

The Red Deal

The Red Nation
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Author : The Red Nation
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Climate change mitigation
ISBN : 1942173431

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Introduction --Part 1.Divest : End the occupation --Part 2.Heal our bodies : Reinvest in our common humanity --Part 3 .Heal our planet: Reinvest in our common future --Our words are powerful, our knowledge is inevitable.

Culture and Democracy in the United States

Horace M. Kallen
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Author : Horace M. Kallen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351312905

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In his new introduction, Whitfield sets the scene of the early twentieth century to show what inspired Horace Kallen to write this book. He delves deeply into his background, discussing the influences on Kallen's life and work. Whitfield also examines the many changes that have occurred since Culture and Democracy in the United States was first written, and reveals that many of the ideas espoused by Kallen have become reality.

Culture, Society, and Democracy

Isaac Reed,Jeffrey C. Alexander
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Author : Isaac Reed,Jeffrey C. Alexander
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317261681

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Culture, Society, and Democracy by Isaac Reed,Jeffrey C. Alexander Pdf

This volume addresses the key question of the intersection of sociology and politics, and asks what a non-Marxist cultural perspective can offer the Left. Written by leading scholars, it develops new conceptions of social critique, new techniques of interpretive analysis, and new concepts for the sociology of democratic practice. It is a volume for the twenty-first-century, where global and local meet, when critical theory must examine its most fundamental presuppositions.

The Society of the Selfie

Jeremiah Morelock,Felipe Ziotti Narita
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Author : Jeremiah Morelock,Felipe Ziotti Narita
Publisher : University of Westminster Press
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781914386268

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This book explores how the Internet is connected to the global crisis of liberal democracy. Today, self-promotion is at the heart of many human relationships. The selfie is not just a social media gesture people love to hate. It is also a symbol of social reality in the age of the Internet. Through social media people have new ways of rating and judging themselves and one another, via metrics such as likes, shares, followers and friends. There are new thirsts for authenticity, outlets for verbal aggression, and social problems. Social media culture and neoliberalism dovetail and amplify one another, feeding social estrangement. With neoliberalism, psychosocial wounds are agitated and authoritarianism is provoked. Yet this new sociality also inspires resistance and political mobilisation. Illustrating ideas and trends with examples from news and popular culture, the book outlines and applies theories from Debord, Foucault, Fromm, Goffman, and Giddens, among others. Topics covered include the global history of communication technologies, personal branding, echo chamber effects, alienation and fear of abnormality. Information technologies provide channels for public engagement where extreme ideas reach farther and faster than ever before, and political differences are widened and inflamed. They also provide new opportunities for protest and resistance.

Democracy's Children

John McGowan
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Author : John McGowan
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781501720963

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How do American intellectuals try to achieve their political and social goals? By what means do they articulate their hopes for change? John McGowan seeks to identify the goals and strategies of contemporary humanistic intellectuals who strive to shape the politics and culture of their time. In a lively mix of personal reflection and shrewd analysis, McGowan visits the sites of intellectual activity (scholarly publications, professional conferences, the classroom, and the university) and considers the hazards of working within such institutional contexts to effect change outside the academy. Democracy's Children considers the historical trajectory that produced current intellectual practices. McGowan links the growing prestige of "culture" since 1800 to the growth of democracy and the obsession with modernity and explores how intellectuals became both custodians and creators of culture. Caught between fears of culture's irrelevance and dreams of its omnipotence, intellectuals pursue a cultural politics that aims for wide-ranging social transformations. For better or worse, McGowan says, the humanities are now tied to culture and to the university. The opportunities and frustrations attendant on this partnership resonate with the larger successes and failures of contemporary democratic societies. His purpose in this collection of essays is to illuminate the conditions under which intellectuals in a democracy work and at the same time to promote intellectual activities that further democratic ideals.

Cultural Democracy

David Trend
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Author : David Trend
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1997-05-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781438422305

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Following the work of a range of public intellectuals like Stanley Aronowitz, Henry Giroux, bell hooks, Chantal Mouffe, and Cornel West, Cultural Democracy argues for a "radical democracy" capable of subverting traditional divisions of "left" and "right". In so doing, Trend suggests that solutions to contemporary cultural and political problems are not so far away as one might think. Their roots lie in the very democratic principles upon which the U.S.was founded, although many such principles need to be brought up to date and radicalized.

Cancel This Book

Dan Kovalik
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Author : Dan Kovalik
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781510764996

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Examining a phenomenon that is sweeping the country, Cancel This Book shines the spotlight on the suppression of open and candid debate. The public shaming of individuals for actual or perceived offenses, often against emerging notions of proper racial and gender norms and relations, has become commonplace. In a number of cases, the shaming is accompanied by calls for the offending individuals to lose their jobs, positions, or other status. Frequently, those targeted for “cancellation” simply do not know the latest, ever-changing norms (often related to language) that they are accused of transgressing—or they have honest questions about issues that have been deemed off-limits for debate and discussion. Cancel This Book offers a unique perspective from Dan Kovalik, a progressive author who supports the ongoing movements for racial and gender equality and justice, but who is concerned about the prevalence of “cancelling” people, and especially of people who are well-intentioned and who are themselves allied with these movements. While many progressives believe that “cancelling” others is a form of activism and holding others accountable, Cancel This Book argues that “cancellation” is oftentimes counter-productive and destructive of the very values which the “cancellers” claim to support. And indeed, we now see instances in the workplace where employers are using this spirt of “cancellation” to pit employees against each other, to exert more control over the workforce and to undermine worker and labor solidarity. Kovalik observes that many progressives are quietly opposed to this “Cancel Culture” and to many instances of “cancellation” they witness, but they are afraid to air these concerns publicly lest they themselves be “cancelled.” The result is the suppression of open debate about important issues involving racial and gender matters, and even issues related to how to best confront the current COVID-19 pandemic. While people speak in whispers about their true feelings about such issues, critical debate and discussion is avoided, resentments build, and the movement for justice and equality is ultimately disserved.

Thinking in Place

Carol Becker
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Author : Carol Becker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317250500

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Carol Becker, preeminent arts educator and contributor to leading art magazines, offers a beautifully poignant meditation on the role of place in artistic creativity. She focuses on place as a historical, physical entity and a conceptual site where ideas come into meaning. The book explores places from the coal-mining towns of western Pennsylvania, to the Birla House where Gandhi was shot, to the sinking city of Venice. A cross between theory, memoir, and history, her writing creates the experiential effect of being in specific places as well as imagining the evolution of ideas as they are manifested in museums and often become agents for social change.

Obama's Wars

Bob Woodward
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Author : Bob Woodward
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781439172506

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Woodward shows Obama making the critical decisions on the Afghanistan War, the secret war in Pakistan and the worldwide fight against terrorism.

Cultural Policy and Democracy

Geir Vestheim
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Author : Geir Vestheim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317696759

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This book discusses how public cultural policies can relate to the principle political issue of democracy. Here, democratic cultural policies include ideas and ideologies, institutional structures, agents and interests, power, access and participation and distribution of economic resources. Contributors focus on analysing the relationship between a political system and culture and the arts as an empirical field. They critically consider questions such as: How do different democratic forms affect cultural policy consequences? Can cultural autonomy be combined with cultural democracy? How is cultural policy-making used as a political process and which interests are involved? What position does popular culture have in cultural policies? How does a former Soviet state like Lithuania handle the question of culture and democracy? What does it mean when UNESCO talks about cultural diversity? How did intellectuals act in cultural policy debates in France in the late 19th century? The volume also looks at whether the democratisation of culture is actually possible. This book was originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of Cultural Policy.