Making a Place for Community: Local Democracy in a Global Era
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| Rating | : | 4.24 (949 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0415947413 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 430 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-02-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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A Customer said Essential reading for serious political activists. This is one of the first books to tie together disparate concerns about globalization, job loss at home, and suburban sprawl into a coherent theoretical and practical framework. It's also an incredibly informative and hopeful look at the ways local communities can use alternative economic structures to provide jobs that are really rooted in communities. This book does more
Increased capital flow between nations is not at the root of the problem, however, increased capital flow within our nation is. When pundits refer to the death of community, they are speaking of a number of social ills, which include, but are not limited to, the general increase in isolation and cynicism of our citizens, widespread concerns about declining political participation and membership in civic organizations, and periodic outbursts of small town violence. Making a Place for Community argues that this death of community is being caused by contemporary policies that, if not changed, will continue to foster the decline of community. Small towns shouldn't have to hope for a prison to open nearby and downtown centers shouldn't sit empty as suburban sparwl encroaches, but they do and it's a result of widely agreed upon public policies.
Holding to that principle requires, the authors argue, radically revising a foundation of contemporary economic thinking-that business interests necessarily will eventually serve humanitarian ones. 16) Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Publishers Weekly One of the basic tensions within capitalism, argue the three political scientist authors, is between the desire "to preserve, sustain, and strengthen geographically defined communities over time" and the opposing, usually economic, idea that "public policy should seek to facilitate individual and business mobility, no
Bauman Professor of Political Economy at the University of Maryland, has a leading voice in the communitarian movement for 30 years. . Imbroscio is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Louisville. He has written for The Nation, InThese Times and Monthly Review. He serves on the editorial board of Tikkun, and his articles appear