Local Actions - Cultural Activism, Power, and Public Life in America

von: Melissa Checker, Maggie Fishman

Columbia University Press, 2004

ISBN: 9780231502429 , 280 Seiten

Format: PDF

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Local Actions - Cultural Activism, Power, and Public Life in America


 



Melissa Checker is assistant professor of applied anthropology at the University of Memphis. Her research on environmental justice activism is the subject of an upcoming ethnography and several articles. She has been involved as an activist in the environmental justice movement. In her own discipline she endeavors to bring anthropological voices into public policy.
Maggie Fishman is completing her doctoral dissertation on the contemporary arts education movement in New York City in the department of anthropology at New York University. She works evaluating arts-in-education programs in New York City public schools and has been active there in various causes, including the creation of a neighborhood school whose curriculum incorporates the tools of ethnography.