Good Neighbors
The Democracy of Everyday Life in America
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19926864 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nancy L Rosenblum (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Pages | 312 |
| Publication date | 2016-05-17 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Good Neighbors (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Princeton University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1515/9781400881314 |
| OpenAlex | W2503094852 |
| ISBN | 9781400881314 |
| Open Library | OL29300634M |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 24 |
"Love thy neighbor" is an impossible exhortation. Good neighbors greet us on the street and do small favors, but neighbors also startle us with sounds at night and unleash their demons on us, they monitor and reproach us, and betray us to authorities. The moral principles prescribed for friendship, civil society, and democratic public life apply imperfectly to life around home, where we interact day to day without the formal institutions, rules of conduct, and means of enforcement that guide us in other settings.In Good Neighbors, Nancy Rosenblum explores how encounters among neighbors create a democracy of everyday life, which has been with us since the beginning of American history and is expressed in settler, immigrant, and suburban narratives and in novels, poetry, and popular culture. During disasters, like Hurricane Katrina, the democracy of everyday life is a resource for neighbors who improvise rescue and care. Degraded, this framework can give way to betrayal by neighbors, as faced by the Japanese Americans interned during World War II, or to terrible violence such as the lynching of African Americans. Under extreme conditions the barest act of neighborliness is a bulwark against total ethical breakdown. The elements of the democracy of everyday life-reciprocity, speaking out, and "live and let live"-comprise a democratic ideal not reducible to public principles of justice or civic virtue, but it is no less important. The democracy of everyday life, Rosenblum argues, is the deep substrate of democracy in America and can be its saving remnant
Democracy · Everyday life · Political science · Politics · Sociology · American Political and Social Dynamics · Asian American and Pacific Histories · Disaster Management and Resilience · Law · Civics & Citizenship · Civil society · Ethics & Moral Philosophy · History & Theory · Neighborliness · Philosophy · Political · Social aspects · Social conditions · united states
Neighborhood Walking and Social Connectedness
Revisiting the urban home
The Democracy of Everyday Life in Disaster
The Anatomy of Neighbour Relations
Seeing Like a Neighbor
Between grammar and style
The Entanglements of Uncertainty
Familiarity as a Practical Sense of Place
Disparities in Modes and Content of Civic Engagement
Strong, Weak and Invisible Ties
Incivility as Dissent
“My Neighbor, My Friend
Of Humans, Machines, and Extremism
Zusammenleben
Small-Town Life and Difference
Just boundaries for demoicrats
On Borders
From the spectacular to the mundane
Neighboring in the Time of Coronavirus? Paying Civil Attention While Walking the Neighborhood
Disruptive Disobedience
Exile in America
Conceptualizing Belonging for Democratic Theory
Tales from other people's houses
The Future of the Public in Public Education
| Citations per year | 2.67 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2017 - 2025 (9) |
| Highly cited | No |