Bugünlerde faydası olabilir diyerek, Amerikan toplumsal hareketlerindeki katılımcı demokrasi örnekleri üzerine. - mkz

"Conventional wisdom has it that participatory democracy is worthy in principle but unwieldy in practice. For groups devoted to social change, sustaining a decentralized, nonhierarchical, and consensus-based organization seems to mean sacrificing the quick decisions and clear lines of command necessary to winning concessions in a hostile political climate. Once participatory democrats enter the realm of contentious politics, their indifference to strategy seems to doom them to failure. This book tells a different story." - mkz

Bir-iki eleştiriden alıntı: "By reading this book, we get to see what has worked and what has failed. Polletta makes two main contributions in this book. First, she rebutts those who argue that participatory democracy is a nice ideal, but impractical--that top-down leadership is a more efficient form of organization. On the contrary, says Polletta, participatory democracy promotes 1) solidarity in groups, because everyone feels included in the decision-making process and thus more committed to any plan of action; 2) innovation, as more people take part in the back and forth as new ideas are developed; and 3) personal development, as active participation in decision-making lets more people develop new skills, including leadership skills. The other major point Polletta makes is that it has been difficult for movement organizations to successfully implement participatory democracy because we have so few models of such interaction in mainstream society. Therefore, we often fall back on patterns of interaction we are familiar with" - http://www.amazon.com/review... - mkz

"Polletta (sociology, Columbia) considers whether, as a process in decision-making, participatory democracy can be successful in effecting social change or is doomed to fail because it lacks organizational focus and an awareness that strategizing is essential. She closely analyzes the dynamics of participatory democracy in several movements in recent American history-organized labor, pacifist groups, the Civil Rights Movement, the New Left, and groups protesting against globalization. She postulates that the primary challenges of participatory democracy have been how to "coordinate actions and programs across de-centralized units" and how to choose a group interest from among competing individual interests. Drawing on extensive interviews with activists, Polletta focuses on distinct strengths that participatory democracy can provide to social and political action groups-the gathering and evaluation of information, the development of skills in "negotiating common agendas," and the ability to look beyond immediate conflict and focus on "future battles waged in electoral institutions."" - http://www.amazon.com/Freedom... - mkz

Artık Columbia'da değil sanırım (http://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile...). Bir de şöyle ilginç görünen bir kitabı var: It Was Like a Fever - Storytelling in Protest and Politics - http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp... Yukarıdaki kitabın başlarındaki genel muhabbetleri çok hevesle/ilgiyle okudum, sonra spesifik örneklere geçince biraz altyapı eksikliğinden olsa gerek yavaşladım, ama ders alınacak epey şey anlatıyor gibi görünüyor. - mkz

bu kadının kitabı çok güzeeeeel - selim kah keh

pdf'i burda var mi acaba? library.nu'da goremedim - Ori

Ori PDF bulamamıştım, bi-iki hafta icinde memleketteyim, taratırım bi yerde olmadı. Selim başlarını çok severek okumuştum, devamına da şimdi döndüm tekrar. Aslında "çıkartılan on ders" falan gibi bi şeyler de olaymış keşke muhtelif deneyimler için (bu kitapta değil de, bir yerlerde--belki de vardir gerçi). Öbür kitabı da (hikayecilikli olanı) merak ettiydim. - mkz