Play, Creativity, and Social Movements: If I Can't Dance, It's Not My Revolution

by Benjamin Heim Shepard

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415963249
• ISBN13: 9780415963244
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"