Political Theory and the Democracy of Everyday Life in America

Rosenblum, Nancy L.

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“…Other patterns described in this paper also echo earlier literature, including the way in which civil society, even where it appears to be inactive or dormant will be roused into swift responsive action in times of crisis (Milofsky 2008;Solnit 2010). This point applies especially to neighbours who can become the main source of help with basic needs in times of disaster (Rosenblum 2016). In the case of the UK Covid-19 crisis, it took several weeks for national and local governmental agencies to set up systems for distributing help to the identified 'shielding' group.…”

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“…The stereotype of civil society as flexible, responsive and innovative (Kramer 1981;Milbourne 2013;Wolch 1989) is largely confirmed by the current study. At the neighbourhood level people rapidly self-organised (Twigg and Mosel 2017); improvising systems for identifying and contacting those in need of support and ignoring, where necessary, regulations on data protection and safeguarding in order to deal with threats to human survival (Rosenblum 2016). They developed new schemes for involving volunteers in new ways, such as special volunteering schemes for those furloughed.…”

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Familiar Patterns and New Initiatives: UK Civil Society and Government Initial Responses to the Covid-19 Crisis

Harris

2021

Nonprofit Policy Forum

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This paper describes and analyses the response of UK civil society in the early months of the Covid-19 crisis, roughly the period March to July 2020. While focussing primarily on civil society actors, the paper includes an exploration of how civil society and the national government interacted with each other. It considers the extent to which responses to the Covid-19 crisis reflect familiar patterns of behaviour by civil society in the UK, and in the relationship between the government and ‘third sector’. The paper concludes by pointing to emergent issues for civil society as the UK looked towards recovery from the initial wave of crisis.

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Section: Familiar Patterns Of Civil Society Activity?mentioning

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Familiar Patterns and New Initiatives: UK Civil Society and Government Initial Responses to the Covid-19 Crisis

Harris

2021

Nonprofit Policy Forum

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“…People who move out of our neighbourhood but keep contact with us are for us ‘former neighbours’ or perhaps ‘friends’, not just neighbours (Grannis, 2009: 20; also Keller, 1968: 25–26). Being a neighbour is a different kind of relation from friendship; we need to make friends with the people who become our friends, whereas neighbours are neighbours just by being where they are (Keller, 1968: 24; also Rosenblum, 2016).…”

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“…The people who we call neighbours have the capacity to affect our private lives, both positively and negatively (e.g. Allan, 1989; Rosenblum, 2016) According to Silverman (1986), neighbours are people who live close to the private space of one’s home (p. 314; italics added).…”

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The Anatomy of Neighbour Relations

Ruonavaara

2021

Sociological Research Online

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Relations between neighbours represent informal social relations that constitute a part of everyday life for virtually all individuals in contemporary urban societies. While aspects of neighbour relations have been studied in connection with research on local communities, gentrification, and neighbourhood effects, little research focusing specifically on interactions between neighbours has been conducted and theoretical reflection on the central concepts remains lacking. This article attempts to fill this research gap by developing a theoretical framework for the sociological understanding and investigation of neighbour relations. The research material used consists of previous studies on neighbour relations. The method for the task was analysis of concepts coupled with theoretical reasoning based on a review and a synthesis of relevant previous research. Familiar concepts like ‘neighbour’, ‘neighbouring’, and ‘neighbourliness’ are scrutinised, deconstructed, and redefined, noting that there are often two perspectives on each: the experiences of residents and those of outside observers. Various sociological aspects of neighbour relations are discussed, including neighbour relations as an acquaintance relation, neighbour relations as the basis of a community, and the cultural content of the neighbour role. A model of levels of neighbourly interaction is presented.

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“…As a result, scholars have spent considerable time and effort elaborating strategies through which to cultivate the requisite habits and attitudes in citizens. Some have pointed to the role of education (Dewey, 1916), while others highlight the importance of informal norms and institutions, like friendship or neighborliness (Allen, 2004; Rosenblum, 2016). Using the framework of distributed cognition, however, here we emphasize the role of the social and cultural environment in facilitating the requisite democratic practices and affects—or in thwarting them.…”

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Of Humans, Machines, and Extremism: The Role of Platforms in Facilitating Undemocratic Cognition

DeCook

Forestal

2022

American Behavioral Scientist

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The events surrounding the 2020 U.S. election and the January 6 insurrection have challenged scholarly understanding of concepts like collective action, radicalization, and mobilization. In this article, we argue that online far-right radicalization is better understood as a form of distributed cognition, in which the groups’ online environment incentivizes certain patterns of behavior over others. Namely, these platforms organize their users in ways that facilitate a nefarious form of collective intelligence, which is amplified and strengthened by systems of algorithmic curation. In short, these platforms reflect and facilitate undemocratic cognition, fueled by affective networks, contributing to events like the January 6 insurrection and far-right extremism more broadly. To demonstrate, we apply this framing to a case study (the “Stop the Steal” movement) to illustrate how this framework can make sense of radicalization and mobilization influenced by undemocratic cognition.

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Political Theory and the Democracy of Everyday Life in America

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Familiar Patterns and New Initiatives: UK Civil Society and Government Initial Responses to the Covid-19 Crisis

Familiar Patterns and New Initiatives: UK Civil Society and Government Initial Responses to the Covid-19 Crisis

The Anatomy of Neighbour Relations

Of Humans, Machines, and Extremism: The Role of Platforms in Facilitating Undemocratic Cognition

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