"In the late nineteenth century, the Indian Wars took a turn to the domestic, as assimilation policies moved the site of violence from the battlefield into the home. The cornerstone policies of the assimilation campaigns - land allotment, compulsory education for Indian children…
"In September 2011, two leading civic engagement advocacy organizations headed, respectively, by Robert Putnam and Peter Levine released a joint report showing that a region's level of civic engagement was a strong predictor of its ability to recover from the Great Recession. Th…
Introduction : maximum feasible participation -- Jack Kerouac's delinquent art -- Black Arts and the Great Society -- Legal services and the cockroach revolution -- Writing urban crisis after Moynihan -- Civil rights and the Southern folk aesthetic -- Who belongs in the universi…
This book traces American writers' contributions and responses to the War on Poverty. Its title comes from the 1964 Opportunity Act, which established a network of federally funded Community Action Agencies that encouraged "maximum feasible participation" by the poor. With this …
Participation, exhibited -- Participation, introduced -- Participation, experienced -- Participation, employed -- Participation, administered -- Participation, developed -- Participation, concluded -- Participation, acknowledged -- Participation, notated -- Participation, refere…
"Participation is everywhere today. It has been formalized, measured, standardized, scaled up, network-enabled, and sent around the world. Platforms, algorithms, and software offer to make participation easier, but many have had the opposite effect. We find ourselves suspicious …