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En étudiant les conversations ordinaires des Américains, dans une démarche pragmatiste, Nina Eliasoph met au jour une puissante culture d'évitement du politique, à l'oeuvre dans la vie quotidienne. Pendant deux ans et demi, elle a mené une enquête ethnographique dans trois types d'associations : des groupes de bénévoles, des clubs de loisirs et des collectifs d'activistes, implantées dans des villes de banlieue de la côte Ouest. Elle a écouté les conversations à l'intérieur des groupes et dans les interactions avec les pouvoirs publics, les travailleurs sociaux, les médias et les grandes entreprises. Dans les deux cas, elle a prêté l'oreille aux discours publics, mais aussi aux propos murmurés en coulisse. Ce faisant, elle prend à revers les analyses dominantes sur l'espace public et les travaux quantitatifs sur la participation politique. Elle montre des citoyens soucieux du sort du monde, ni indifférents ni satisfaits, mais qui n'expriment ces préoccupations que dans les conversations les plus privées. Plus l'arène devient, publique, moins le souci du bien commun paraît légitime et plus les citoyens semblent apathiques ou préoccupés uniquement de leur intérêt personnel. Un véritable " cycle d'évaporation du politique " apparaît alors, dont Nina Eliasoph décrit les différents rouages. L'évitement de la politique est devenu depuis sa parution un classique de la sociologie américaine contemporaine.

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Nina Eliasoph's vivid portrait of American civic life reveals an intriguing culture of political avoidance. Despite the importance for democracy of open-ended political conversation among ordinary citizens, many Americans try hard to avoid appearing to care about politics. To discover how, where and why Americans create this culture of avoidance, the author accompanied suburban volunteers, activists, and recreation club members for over two years, listening to them talk - and avoid talking - about the wider world, together and in encounters with government, media, and corporate authorities. She shows how citizens create and express ideas in everyday life, contrasting their privately expressed convictions with their lack of public political engagement. Her book challenges received ideas about culture, power and democracy, while exposing the hard work of producing apathy.

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Volunteering improves inner character, builds community, cures poverty, and prevents crime. We've all heard this kind of empowerment talk from nonprofit and government-sponsored civic programs. But what do these programs really accomplish? In Making Volunteers, Nina Eliasoph offers an in-depth, humorous, wrenching, and at times uplifting look inside youth and adult civic programs. She reveals an urgent need for policy reforms in order to improve these organizations and shows that while volunteers learn important lessons, they are not always the lessons that empowerment programs aim to teach. With short-term funding and a dizzy mix of mandates from multiple sponsors, community programs develop a complex web of intimacy, governance, and civic life. Eliasoph describes the at-risk youth served by such programs, the college-bound volunteers who hope to feel selfless inspiration and plump up their resumés, and what happens when the two groups are expected to bond instantly through short-term projects. She looks at adult "plug-in" volunteers who, working in after-school programs and limited by time, hope to become like beloved aunties to youth. Eliasoph indicates that adult volunteers can provide grassroots support but they can also undermine the family-like warmth created by paid organizers. Exploring contradictions between the democratic rhetoric of empowerment programs and the bureaucratic hurdles that volunteers learn to navigate, the book demonstrates that empowerment projects work best with less precarious funding, more careful planning, and mandatory training, reflection, and long-term commitments from volunteers. Based on participant research inside civic and community organizations, Making Volunteers illustrates what these programs can and cannot achieve, and how to make them more effective.

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