{"id":59,"date":"2010-08-02T15:56:50","date_gmt":"2010-08-02T23:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/civicpaths.net\/groupblog\/?p=59"},"modified":"2016-02-02T11:02:21","modified_gmt":"2016-02-02T19:02:21","slug":"charity-vs-activism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/civicpaths.net\/groupblog\/2010\/08\/02\/charity-vs-activism\/","title":{"rendered":"Charity vs Activism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lana and I have been thinking about the distinction between charity and activism (a very similar project to Neta&#8217;s on &#8220;civic engagement&#8221;). \u00c2\u00a0Here&#8217;s a preliminary list of texts we&#8217;re thinking of drawing on:<\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Eliasoph, Nina. \u00c2\u00a0(1998) \u00c2\u00a0Avoiding Politics: \u00c2\u00a0How Americans Produce Apathy in Everyday Life.<\/li>\n<li>Blackstone, Amy. \u00c2\u00a0(2004) \u00c2\u00a0&#8220;It&#8217;s Just about Being Fair: \u00c2\u00a0Activism and the Politics of Volunteering in the Breast Cancer Movement. \u00c2\u00a0Gender and Society 18(3) pp. 350-368<\/li>\n<li>Burgess, J. Harrison, C. M. Filius, P. (1998) Environmental communication and the cultural politics of environmental citizenship.<\/li>\n<li>Burgess, Jean and Foth, Marcus and Klaebe, Helen (2006) Everyday Creativity as Civic Engagement: A Cultural Citizenship View of New Media. In Proceedings Communications Policy &amp; Research Forum, Sydney<\/li>\n<li>Kennelly, Jacqueline Joan. Citizen youth : culture, activism, and agency in an era of globalization. Dissertation &#8211; http:\/\/circle.ubc.ca\/handle\/2429\/769<\/li>\n<li>Jeff Goodwin, James M. Jasper, Francesca Polletta. \u00c2\u00a0Passionate politics: emotions and social movements. Chapter: \u00c2\u00a0\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Felt Politics of Charity: \u00c2\u00a0Serving the Ambassadors of God and saving the sinking Classes\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/li>\n<li>Norris, Pippa. \u00c2\u00a0(2002) \u00c2\u00a0Democratic Phoenix: Reinventing Political Activism<\/li>\n<li>Isin, Engin Fahri. \u00c2\u00a0Being Political: Genealogies of Citizenship<\/li>\n<li>Charity, Philanthropy, and Civility in American History edited by Lawrence Freedman, Mark McGarvie Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2003<\/li>\n<li>Bremmer, Robert. \u00c2\u00a0Giving: Charity and Philanthropy in History. By Robert H. Bremner.<\/li>\n<li>McCarthy, Kathleen D. \u00c2\u00a0(1990) \u00c2\u00a0Lady Bountiful Revisited: \u00c2\u00a0Women, Philanthropy, and Power.<\/li>\n<li>Bickford and Reynolds (2002) \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Activism and Service-Learning: Reframing Volunteerism as Acts of Dissent\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition and Culture \u00c2\u00a02(2)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s a difficult set of terms to parse, given that new terms keep popping up (&#8220;being political,&#8221; volunteerism, advocacy, etc.) but we&#8217;re hoping to start pinning down some key concepts that will be useful as we continue our work. \u00c2\u00a0We&#8217;ll keep you up to date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lana and I have been thinking about the distinction between charity and activism (a very similar project to Neta&#8217;s on &#8220;civic engagement&#8221;). \u00c2\u00a0Here&#8217;s a preliminary list of texts we&#8217;re thinking of drawing on: Eliasoph, Nina. \u00c2\u00a0(1998) \u00c2\u00a0Avoiding Politics: \u00c2\u00a0How Americans Produce Apathy in Everyday Life. Blackstone, Amy. \u00c2\u00a0(2004) \u00c2\u00a0&#8220;It&#8217;s Just about Being Fair: \u00c2\u00a0Activism and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/civicpaths.net\/groupblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/civicpaths.net\/groupblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/civicpaths.net\/groupblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civicpaths.net\/groupblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civicpaths.net\/groupblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/civicpaths.net\/groupblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/civicpaths.net\/groupblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civicpaths.net\/groupblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civicpaths.net\/groupblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}