Boycotts and Dixie Chicks: Creative Political Participation by Andrew S. McFarland

By Andrew S. McFarland

Boycotts and Dixie Chicks introduces the concept that of 'creative political participation', collective political activities which don't use conventional tools and that are leading edge, collaborative and inventive in personality. Andrew S. McFarland discusses inventive participation on matters about the surroundings, political corruption, client rights, and transnational matters. He attracts on particular examples together with anti-corruption demonstrations in modern rural China, neighborhood motion in Nineties Wisconsin, patron boycotts of Shell Oil, ExxonMobil, the Nestle company, and the Dixie Chicks song crew, the 'colour revolutions' and transnational reasonable alternate and transparency activism. Written in an enticing, daily language and utilizing a wide selection of resources and case reports, Boycotts and Dixie Chicks is very suggested for college kids of other social and political activities and sociology.

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