Aug 28, 2017 · 1 min read
This sounds like quite the lineup! Thanks for sharing your notes. I was first turned on to this sort of municipalism through my political theory coursework in the early 2000s and then again through the work of Elinor Ostrom – in particular, her short piece, released on the day of her death, “Green from the Grassroots.”
This idea is vital for our time. But we cannot abandon the countryside and the rural, for these are the areas that need the sort of work Gordon Allport and others have pioneered. My most recent piece in the Working Together Review is all about this work.
