Play, creativity, and social movements if I can't dance, it's not my revolution

As we play, we step away from stark reality to conjure up new possibilities for the present and our common future. Today, a new cohort of social activists are using it to create social change and reinvent democratic social relations. In contrast to work or routine, play must be free. To the extent t...

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Main Author: Shepard, Benjamin Heim (-)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Routledge 2011.
Edition:1st ed
Series:Routledge advances in sociology ; 57.
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Summary:As we play, we step away from stark reality to conjure up new possibilities for the present and our common future. Today, a new cohort of social activists are using it to create social change and reinvent democratic social relations. In contrast to work or routine, play must be free. To the extent that it is, it infuses a high-octane burst of innovation into any number of organizational practices and contexts, and invites social actors to participate in a low-threshold, highly democratic process of collaboration, based on pleasure and convivial social relations. Despite the contention that suc
Item Description:Description based upon print version of record.
Physical Description:1 online resource (331 p.)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781136829642
9781280682506
9781136829659
9786613659446
9780203831489