Creative Participation Responsibility-Taking in the Political World

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 One Introduction, Michele Micheletti; Chapter Two Why Creative Participation Today?, Andrew S. McFarland; Chapter Three Swarming, Alexandra Segerberg; Chapter Four Two Faces of Political Participation, James L. Guth; Chapter Five Grammars of Political Action Among Urban Muslim Youth, Therese O’Toole, Richard Gale; Chapter Six Capitalist Housing Developers as Green Activists, John S. Watson; Chapter Seven Everyday Shopping to Fight the Mafia in Italy, Francesca Forno, Carina Gunnarson; Chapter Eight Vegetarianism—A Lifestyle Politics?, Michele Micheletti, Dietlind Stolle; Chapter Nine Is Creative Participation Good for Democracy?, Jan W. van Deth; Chapter Ten Creative Participation, Kay Lehman Schlozman;

Michele Micheletti, Andrew S. McFarland