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... at the center of the atonement; the church’s political, economic, and civic engagement; and Carrie Lawson’s radio presence. After the death of Robert Lawson in 1961, structural reorganization occurred under William L. and Ethel Mae Bonner. The chapter’s final section examines the establishment of True...

... the mere inculcation of literacy—which was the key focus of other educational efforts in the period—by linking education to productive communal labor and collective civic engagement. The school’s ethos was egalitarian and its democratic governance was based on assembly-style deliberation among elected...

... responsibility into civic engagement and endeavoring to reclaim the state as the ultimate moral agent. This chapter addresses theories of responsibility for violence and division in Cyprus, a country divided by a de facto cease-fire line dating to 1958 that separates Greek Cypriots to the south and Turkish...

... into civic engagement and endeavoring to reclaim the state as the ultimate moral agent. This chapter asks, “how can the concepts of responsibility and responsibilization shed light on changing forms of governance and power?” Drawing on ethnographic examples from Britain and New Zealand, I examine how...

... This chapter analyzes Richard Hofstadter’s critique of “the paranoid style” and its influential impact on the terms and tone of liberal and left engagement with the event of Donald Trump. The chapter’s claim is that Hofstadter’s argument engages a genre of criticism, originating...

... community ( ayllu ) and sought to go beyond the mere inculcation of literacy—which was the key focus of other educational efforts in the period—by linking education to productive communal labor and collective civic engagement. The school’s ethos was egalitarian and its democratic governance was based...

... This essay critically engages the apparent paradox of the adoption of participation by mainstream institutions. It offers a genealogy of participation and participatory prescriptions in Brazil, beginning with the idea of councils in the early twentieth century, through to the seeming near...

..., and political engagement? What kinds of mediated civic spaces are emerging in postcolonial, postsocialist, and post–economic miracle Asian nation-states grappling with the potentials and challenges of commercial global media? Returning to our multiple modernities framework, this chapter asks how developments...

... and generation within local communities. For their part, shack dwellers persisted in struggling for urban citizenship: they honed courtroom tactics, resisted evictions and deportations, and engaged in routine activities that ranged from the building of shanties and makeshift schools and churches to the formation...

... the limits of vanguardism in this moment. This moment revived the remains of Black Consciousness communitarianism, and it drew biopolitical tools into urban struggle through the United Democratic Front and its affiliates, also in Wentworth and Merebank. The resulting civic biopolitics held the possibility...

... Narratives of civil society participation often paint an overly rosy picture of engaged citizens enlivening democratic deliberation and democratizing decision making. This chapter draws on ethnographic research in a “new democratic space” in northeastern Brazil to explore the politics...

...,” on the one hand, and the proliferation of civic participation through the so-called Third Sector and governmental programs. One of the core goals of the project has been to question this reigning binary calling on, instead, another set of categories, lo permitido and lo no permitido —the permissible...