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Practicing democracy : local activism and politics in France and Finland / Eeva Luhtakallio, University of Helsinki, Finland.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Luhtakallio, Eeva, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Democracy--France.
- Democracy.
- Political participation.
- Politics, Practical.
- France.
- Democracy--Finland.
- Politics, Practical--France.
- Politics, Practical--Finland.
- Political participation--France.
- Political participation--Finland.
- France--Politics and government.
- Politics and government.
- Finland--Politics and government.
- Finland.
- Comparative government.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 250 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Houndmills, Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
- Summary:
- This book is about the mundane, local, everyday practices that constitute democracy. It defines politicization as the key process in understanding democracy in different cultural contexts through studies of France and Finland. By means of comparative ethnographic, media, and visual analysis that focuses on how democracy is actually practiced in different contexts, this work sets out a more nuanced and controversial picture of two opposite models of European politics. The familiar juxtaposition of Southern and Northern political cultures is set in a new perspective through comparative analyses of politicizations: the processes of opening political arenas and recognizing controversy. The book explores the ways in which people in different contexts deliberate, resist, and politicize, and hence practice, challenge, and transform democracy in ways that are of relevance to all political systems. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 1 A Sociological Travelogue 1
- 2 Local Scenes of Global Action: Group Styles of Local Collective Action and the Place of Politics 25
- 3 Citizenship and Gender in Local Activism 63
- 4 Visual Frames of Representing the Local Society 91
- 5 Framing Democracy: Participation and Representation by Activists and Politicians 130
- 6 Justifying on the Local Public Sphere: Newspaper Representations of Encounters between Citizens and Cities 149
- 7 The Souvenirs: Politicization and Local Civic Practices in France and Finland 176.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780230309296
- 0230309291
- OCLC:
- 748328934
- Online:
- Cover image
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