Tag: Civic

Free Download Carson Holloway, "Reason, Revelation, and the Civic Order: Political Philosophy and the Claims of Faith"
English | ISBN: 0875804845 | 2014 | 270 pages | EPUB | 424 KB
While the dominant approaches to the current study of political philosophy are various, with some friendlier to religious belief than others, almost all place constraints on the philosophic and political role of revelation. Mainstream secular political theorists do not entirely disregard religion. But to the extent that they pay attention, their treatment of religious belief is seen more as a political or philosophic problem to be addressed rather than as a positive body of thought from which we might derive important insights about the nature of politics and the truth of the human condition.

Free Download Pippa Norris, "Digital Divide: Civic Engagement, Information Poverty, and the Internet Worldwide (Communication, Society and Politics)"
English | 2001 | ISBN: 0521807514, 0521002230 | EPUB | pages: 320 | 5.8 mb
There is widespread concern that the explosive growth of the Internet is exacerbating existing inequalities between the information rich and poor. Digital Divide sets out to examine the evidence for access and use of the Internet in 179 nations across the world. A global divide is evident between industrialized and developing societies. A social divide is apparent between rich and poor within each nation. And within the online community, evidence for a democratic divide is emerging between those who do and do not use Internet resources to engage, mobilize and participate in public life.

Free Download Pippa Norris, "Digital Divide: Civic Engagement, Information Poverty, and the Internet Worldwide (Communication, Society and Politics)"
English | 2001 | ISBN: 0521807514, 0521002230 | EPUB | pages: 320 | 5.8 mb
There is widespread concern that the explosive growth of the Internet is exacerbating existing inequalities between the information rich and poor. Digital Divide sets out to examine the evidence for access and use of the Internet in 179 nations across the world. A global divide is evident between industrialized and developing societies. A social divide is apparent between rich and poor within each nation. And within the online community, evidence for a democratic divide is emerging between those who do and do not use Internet resources to engage, mobilize and participate in public life.

Free Download Julija Sardelic, "The Fringes of Citizenship: Romani Minorities and Civic Marginalisation"
English | ISBN: 1526143143 | 2021 | 216 pages | PDF | 3 MB
This book offers a socio-legal enquiry into the position of Roma as citizens in Europe. Rather than questioning the exceptionalities of Roma as a minority, it seeks to understand how citizenship in liberal democracies is constructed to marginalize certain minorities.

Free Download Ananda Breed, Tim Prentki, "Performance and Civic Engagement"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 3319665162, 3319882619 | PDF | pages: 316 | 7.0 mb
This book explores ‘civic engagement’ as a politically active encounter between institutions, individuals and art practices that addresses the public sphere on a civic level across physical and virtual spaces. Taking a multidisciplinary approach, it tracks across the overlapping discourses of politics, cultural geography and performance, investigating how and why physical and digital spaces can be analysed and utilised to develop new art forms that challenge traditional notions of how performance is political and how politics are performative. Across three sections – Politicising Communities, Applying Digital Agency and Performing Landscapes and Identities – the ten chapters and three interviews cover a wide variety of international perspectives, all informed by innovative ways of addressing the current crisis of social fragmentation through performance. Providing access to many debates on the theory and practice of new media, this book is of significance to readers from a broad set of academic disciplines, including politics, sociology, geography, and performance studies.

Free Download Florian Fuchs, "Civic Storytelling: The Rise of Short Forms and the Agency of Literature"
English | ISBN: 1942130740 | 2023 | 320 pages | PDF | 27 MB
A deep history of storytelling as a civic agency, recalibrating literature’s political role for the twenty-first century

Free Download The Civic Bargain: How Democracy Survives (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CD2NGYNM | 2023 | 10 hours and 4 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 291 MB
Author: Brook Manville, Josiah Ober
Narrator: Christopher Douyard
A powerful case for democracy and how it can adapt and survive-if we want it to. Is democracy in trouble, perhaps even dying? Pundits say so, and polls show that most Americans believe that their country’s system of governance is being "tested" or is "under attack." But is the future of democracy necessarily so dire? In The Civic Bargain, Brook Manville and Josiah Ober push back against the prevailing pessimism about the fate of democracy around the world. Instead of an epitaph for democracy, they offer a guide for democratic renewal, calling on citizens to recommit to a "civic bargain" with one another to guarantee civic rights of freedom, equality, and dignity.

Free Download Gary J. Schmitt, "The Professions and Civic Life"
English | ISBN: 1498536204 | 2016 | 242 pages | EPUB | 1240 KB
Professions are institutions which, through their small size, self-governing elements, and sense of social mission, can assist in maintaining a sound civic culture. As mediating institutions in our democratic society that are neither entirely birthed by the state nor are entirely private, the individual professions-such as the legal and education professions, journalism, economics, architecture, or the military-arguably present practical avenues through which to teach civic behavior and to restore Americans’ broken trust.

Free Download Marianne E Krasny, "Civic Ecology: Adaptation and Transformation from the Ground Up"
English | 2015 | pages: 325 | ISBN: 0262527170, 0262028654 | PDF | 31,2 mb
Stories of environmental stewardship in communities from New Orleans to Soweto accompany an interdisciplinary framework for understanding civic ecology as a global phenomenon.

Free Download Nina Eliasoph, "Making Volunteers: Civic Life after Welfare’s End"
English | 2013 | pages: 336 | ISBN: 0691162077, 0691147094 | EPUB | 0,4 mb
An inside look at how community service organizations really work