The Job of a Citizen
March 17, 2016
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There are no experts on questions of judgement. Matters of judgement are civic challenges that cannot be unilaterally resolved in millimetres or economic units....
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Universal Citizen Income: The Way Forward
This blog is a reposting of Cormac Russell's contribution to Axiom News on February 11th 2016. You can see the original article here. Curator’s Note: The...
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What Harms Community? Part 3: Economic Globalisation
According to Thomas Friedman (2005), globalization has evolved over three phases across recent human history: phase one (1492- 1800) was the globalization of countries, phase...
Read MorePart 3: Why community organising and community building are necessary to the long term sustainability of our neighbourhoods
Since starting to compile this series of co-authored blogs the world has been hit by a number of major disasters. It is at these...
Read MorePart 2: Community Building & Community Organising are an essential prelude to co-production & Community Engagement.
Part 2: Community Building & Community Organising are an essential prelude to co-production & Community Engagement. In the last 10 years we have seen a...
Read MoreThe relationship between Community Organising and Asset-Based Community Building in the UK (Three part series)
What would you discover if you could make visible all the invisible assets (the local things that make our communities special and powerful: people,...
Read MorePart 1: How Community Organising & Community Building can work together: the two-fisted fight
Part 1: How Community Organising & Community Building can work together: the two-fisted fight New forms of collective action are emerging in the UK. With...
Read MoreWhy Place Such a Strong and Focused Emphasis on Place-based Community Building?
[caption id="attachment_3283" align="alignleft" width="262"] Audre Lorde ©Dagmar Schultz[/caption] "Without community, there can be no liberation". Audre Lorde. The root causes of the vast majority of socio-economic...
Read MoreThe Guillotining of Democracy: Off with their heads!
Ultimately, Doctor Guillotin wanted to radically reform the penal code by having the death penalty abolished. Yet, today he is remembered for helping to...
Read MoreCommunities are the atomic elements of molecular democracy: Part 4
Bonding and Bridging atoms Currently, populist theories of social and economic change in the Global North, suggest that crises’ in the domains of democracy, health,...
Read MoreCommunities are the atomic elements of molecular democracy: Part 3
‘Growing an Association of Associations’ You received gifts from me; they were accepted. But you don’t understand how to think about the dead. The smell of winter...
Read MoreCommunities are the atomic elements of molecular democracy: Part 2
'We used to dream big, now we have a district commissioner who does that for us.' Last week I finished with the question: What happens...
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