ABSTRACT

Creative Participation presents the theory and practice of new innovative forms of political participation. Examples covered in the book include consumers engaging in political shopping, capitalists building green developments, UK Muslim youth campaigning on the internet, Sicilian housewives taking on the Mafia, young evangelical ministers becoming concerned with social change and vegetarians making political statements. The authors show how in these new campaigns individuals swarm like honeybees around particular issues, causing those in power to sit up and take notice. This is the essential guide to the new politics of participation.

chapter |14 pages

Introduction

Responsibility-Taking in Politics

chapter |16 pages

Swarming

Imagining Creative Participation

chapter |17 pages

Two Faces of Political Participation

Conventional and Creative Participation Among American Clergy

chapter |18 pages

Creative Participation

Concluding Thoughts From the Land of the Boston Tea Party