Artful Practices

by Lustiger-Thaler, Henri; Salee, Daniel

• ISBN13: 9781895431926
• ISBN10: 1895431921
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-01-01
• Publisher: Black Rose Books Ltd

Summary

This book is about the social practices of survival. Case studies from Italy, the United Kingdom, Chile, Trinidad and Tobago, the United States, Canada, and Israel are included and offer an intriguing look at new emancipatory possibilities for citizens and their cities.
As the social, economic and political institutions we have lived with since the post-war settlement undergo massive transformations, a larger drama is being played out as broad segments of the population are increasingly marginalized and left alone to face the tyranny of ever-triumphant market forces. The terms of the social contract are being renegotiated and the artful practices of citizens coping with these massive changes point to a new political economy of everyday life.

Table of Contents

Notes on the Contributors
Preface
Introduction: The Quest for a Politically Effective Language of Everyday Life
Lives, Livelihood and Strategies of Survival
Western European Informal Economies in Historical Perspective	p. 1
Survival Strategies for Small Business Families in a Peripheral Local Economy: A Contribution to Institutional Value Theory	p. 21
Family Strategies and Social Development in Northern and Southern Italy	p. 41
The Community Versus the Market: The Ups and Downs of Practices of Resistance
The Sou Sou Land Possibility: Survival and Community Mobilization in Trinidad and Tobago	p. 63
Middle Class, Social Networks, and the "Neo-Liberal" Model: The Case of the Chilean School Teachers	p. 79
Beyond the Market in a Market Economy: The Kibbutz Experience	p. 97
Mapping New Citizenship Practices
Citizenship and Social Change: Beyond the Dominant Paradigm	p. 119
A New/Old Frontier of Inequalities: Respect and Self-Respect As Policy Issues	p. 143
Dissidence and Insurgency: Municipal Foreign Policy in the 1980s	p. 162
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