Posts in POLITICAL CULTURE
Large protest more effective, non-violent ones more potent, unified goals win more support. And police oppression tends to help… The science of protest
Alternative Editorial: Stop The Parade
A BETTER MEDIA, A/UK EDITORIAL, DEMOCRATIC INNOVATION, ENVIRONMENTALISTS, NEW ECONOMICS, PARTY POLITICS, POLITICAL CULTUREpat kaneGeneral Election, political culture, politicians, new media, RegenA, environment, climate change, just stop oil, activism
Alternative Editorial: New Parties Are A Tricky Solution
Alternative Editorial: Five Observations On The UK General Election Debate
A BETTER MEDIA, A/UK EDITORIAL, BEHAVIOUR, CREATE THE FEEL, PARTY POLITICS, PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT, POLITICAL CULTURE, YOUTHpat kaneGeneral Election, party politics, emotional literacy, political emotions, green agenda, RegenA
“Who is more to blame for this farrago? Politicians for perpetuating it or us for going along with it?” The reluctant candidacy of Carne Ross, anarchist
SOCIO-POLITICS, YES WE CAN, POLITICAL CULTURE, PARTY POLITICS, DEMOCRATIC INNOVATION, ENVIRONMENTALISTSpat kaneanarchism, social anarchism, carne ross, General Election, Uk general election, green party
Online spaces have become the new schools of association. Unless democracy reigns there, it is in peril everywhere, says Nathan Schneider
The “neuropolitics” of our brains makes sense of the endless fear-mongering of the UK Election’s main players. But care can also be triggered
Alternative Editorial: Alternative Manifesting
A BETTER MEDIA, A/UK EDITORIAL, ALTERNATIVE MEDIA SYSTEM, BEHAVIOUR, DEMOCRATIC INNOVATION, PARTY POLITICS, POLITICAL CULTURE, SHAPE THE SYSTEM, SOCIO-POLITICSpat kaneGeneral Election, new politics, manifesto, future being, narratives, direct democracy, technology, Audrey tang, participation, play
Taiwan's Audrey Tang, visionary for digital democracy, has a new book and a new documentary. Both are about the power of "plurality"
DEMOCRATIC INNOVATION, SOCIO-POLITICS, TECHNOLOGY, POLITICAL CULTURE, PLANETARIAN, PARTY POLITICS, INGENUITY, GLOBALISTS, ALTERNATIVE MEDIA SYSTEM, A BETTER MEDIApat kanevTaiwan, taiwan, Audrey tang, digital democracy
Alternative Editorial: Bring It On
A century ago, the women of Wales made an audacious appeal for world peace. This is their story—which should inspire us today
What might a parallel polis feel like? David Bollier’s idea of a “commonsverse” - a world in which commons are viable & valued - could tell us
BIG PICTURE, COMMUNITY, DEMOCRATIC INNOVATION, YES WE CAN, SOCIO-POLITICS, POLITICAL CULTURE, NEW ENERGY SOURCES, NEW ECONOMICS, 4TH SECTORpat kanecommoning, commons, david bollier, silke Helfrich, ontoshift
Prof. Cornel West engages with Edinburgh - delivering the Gifford Lectures, pitching to be President, standing with peace protestors
“A post-capitalist, non-rivalrous future in which commons architectures & civic utilities replace state & corporations.” The ambition of Open Civics
YES WE CAN, TECHNOLOGY, SOCIO-POLITICS, POLITICAL CULTURE, PLANETARIAN, MANIFESTOS, DEMOCRATIC INNOVATION, COMMUNITYpat kanecivic tech, civil society, open source, open innovation
Write a letter to future generations. Or imagine how your region will be. But doom-&-gloom messaging about climate change just doesn't work
ACTION, BIG PICTURE, CREATIVE INDUSTRIES, INDIVIDUAL, PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT, POLITICAL CULTURE, PRACTICE, NEW ENERGY SOURCES, SPRINGpat kanepsychology, political emotions, climate emergency
What’s the “New Conservationism”? Partly rural Tory voters, electorally embracing the Greens as the saviours of a depleted nature. But there’s more to it
How to write a 20-point Magna Carta for democratic cities—starting in a Rome hotel room
The new First Minster in Scotland faces a crossroads on “green vs. growth” economics. But what’s happening at street-level could be an education
Alternative Editorial: Let's Not Keep Our Politics Private
A/UK EDITORIAL, BEHAVIOUR, DEMOCRATIC INNOVATION, PARTY POLITICS, POLITICAL CULTURE, SPRING, SOCIO-POLITICSpat kanepublic, private, personal political, party politics, political culture
Rekindle, Reclaim, Roots... From her Manchester base, Ruth Ibegbuna aims to bridge class, social and cultural divides in the UK
YES WE CAN, YOUTH, SOCIO-POLITICS, POLITICAL CULTURE, NEW ECONOMICS, NEW ENERGY SOURCES, PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT, MANIFESTOS, LAB FOCUS, INDIVIDUAL, COMMUNITY, BEHAVIOUR, LEARNINGpat kaneschools, supplementary schools, manchester, london, Glasgow