Communities are the atomic elements of molecular democracy: Part 1
In this series of four blogs I’d like to think about active citizenship and democracy. In this regard, I will not be writing about: How...
Read MoreIn this series of four blogs I’d like to think about active citizenship and democracy. In this regard, I will not be writing about: How...
Read MoreThere is a woman who lives in a neighbourhood in Chicago, who just loves lettuce. She also loves children. Each year she shows the...
Read MoreBy Cormac Russell, John McKnight and Peter Block What does a one-room schoolhouse in Michigan have to do with Greece, Europe, Democracy and the now...
Read More[caption id="attachment_728" align="alignright" width="260"] Image taken from http://www.lostcrafts.com/Blacksmith-61.html[/caption] Benjamin Franklin in The Way to Wealth (1758) wrote: For want of a nail the shoe was lost, for...
Read MoreAre You Being Served? is a wonderful BBC sitcom from the 70’s, it follows the exploits of employees at London's Grace Brothers department store, as...
Read MoreHere's a link to our recent webinar: Moving from being consumers of stuff to producers of democracy http://bit.ly/1uuUHKV Here we explore the influence of consumerism on...
Read MoreIn 1957, The Hidden Persuaders was published. It quickly gained national attention and launched Vance Packard's (the author) career. The Hidden Persuaders lays bare the...
Read MoreThis is the third and final blog within the short series: Connectors, Conductors and Circuit breakers. You can read the first instalment here and the second,...
Read MoreThis is the first of 3 blogs in which Cormac will be exploring issues of citizenship, power and democracy and what these mean to...
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