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Democracy in America
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Day 35: Election Day
It’s Election Day today and as part of my fieldwork I visited three polling stations around the South End, took photos and spoke to campaign officers and volunteers (who were very friendly and more than happy to pose for my … Continue reading
Day 15: Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway
Walked, photographed and observed the entire Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway – Boston’s linear urban park that spans a huge area from Chinatown via the Wharf district to the North End. The Greenway was opened in 2008 after the 20-year … Continue reading
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Front Cover
“The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.” (John F. Kennedy, May 18, 1963)
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Day 9: Savin Hill
Working lunch at McKenna’s; developing a framework for the analysis of urban civic culture; thinking about the challenge of preserving memory and encountering the Other in multicultural societies; oh, and by the way, school buses are back, after a strike … Continue reading
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Day 5: Shutdown
Rainy Sunday at home, catching up with readings. I finally found the right word to describe the difference of (some) residential communities in the US and the UK and that word is “extrovert”.
Day 2: Old Harbor, JFK/UMass, Savin Hill
First exploratory fieldwork session, collecting visual evidence of how civic engagement is embedded in public space. Turns out I’m neighbours with Martin J. Walsh – one of the two candidates in Boston’s mayoral race. 25 C, sweating in shorts and … Continue reading
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