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Practicing democracy : local activism and politics in France and Finland
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Practicing democracy : local activism and politics in France and Finland

Author: Eeva Luhtakallio
Publisher: Houndmills, Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"This book is about the mundane, local, every day practices that constitutes democracy. It defines politicization as the key process in understanding democracy in different cultural contexts throughstudies ofFrance and Finland. By means of comparative ethnographic, media, and visual analysis that focuseson how democracy is actually practiced in different contexts, thiswork sets outa more nuanced and controversial  Read more...
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Eeva Luhtakallio
ISBN: 9780230309296 0230309291
OCLC Number: 748328934
Description: xiii, 250 pages ; 23 cm
Contents: Check-in --
A Sociological Travelogue --
Local Scenes of Global Action: Group Styles of Local Collective Action and the Place of Politics --
Citizenship and Gender in Local Activism --
Visual Frames of Representing the Local Society --
Framing Democracy: Participation and Representation by Activists and Politicians --
Justifying in the Local Public Sphere: Newspaper Representations of Encounters between Citizens and Cities --The Souvenirs: Politicization and Local Civic Practices in France and Finland.
Responsibility: Eeva Luhtakallio, University of Helsinki, Finland.

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This book is about the mundane, local, every day practices that constitutes democracy. Focusing on France and Finland, the book defines politicization as the key process in understanding democracy in  Read more...
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'This book will serve as a model for anyone who wants to do comparative research on political processes, from volunteering to activism to official state politics. Luhtakallio carefully excavates the Read more...

 
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