Mexican Hometown Associations in Chicagoacán: From Local to Transnational Civic Engagement 0813564921, 9780813564920

Local democracy, civic engagement and community: From New Labour to the Big Society 9781526129550

Focuses on local democratic politics in Britain over the last decade and a half from the election of the New Labour Gove

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Hometown Horizons: Local Responses to Canada's Great War 0774810130, 9780774810135

Robert Rutherdale considers how people and communities on the Canadian home front perceived the Great War. Drawing on ne

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Mapping the Extreme Right in Contemporary Europe: From Local to Transnational 0415502640, 9780415502641

In recent years the revival of the far right and anti-Semitic, racist and fascist organizations has posed a significant

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Civic Engagement in the Wake of Katrina 9780472024483, 9780472033522, 2009018642

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Developing Civic Engagement in Urban Public Art Programs 9781442257290, 9781442257283

What can public art do for a community? How can city governments and others that create public art develop projects that

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The Playful Citizen: Civic Engagement in a Mediatized Culture 9789048535200

This edited volume collects current research by academics and practitioners on playful citizen participation through dig

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Immigrant Political Incorporation : The Role of Hometown Associations [1 ed.] 9781593327446, 9781593327217

Vonderlack-Novarro examines Chicago’s coalition of first-generation Mexican hometown associations and their rocky path t

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Wild Tongues: Transnational Mexican Popular Culture 9780292739413

Tracing the configuration of the slapstick, destitute Peladita/Peladito and the Pachuca/Pachuco (depicted in flashy zoot

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International Journalism and Democracy: Civic Engagement Models from Around the World 9780415961103, 0415961106

This book examines different models from around the world of how journalism can support deliberation — the processes in

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Public Speaking and Civic Engagement [4th ed.] 9780134202594

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