Participatory Ideology: From Exclusion to Involvement

Front Cover -- Participatory Ideology: From Exclusion To Involvement -- Copyright Information -- Dedication -- Table Of Contents -- About The Author -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- The Book's Aims -- The Structure Of The Book -- Why Ideology Should Be Important To Us -- Part I Exploring Ideology -- 1 Ideology: An Exclusionary Idea? -- Defining Ideology -- Commonsense Understandings -- Checking Out The 'expert Discourse' -- Starting Points: The History -- Ideology: The Idea -- Ideology's Non-participatory Past -- 2 Ideology And Us -- The Implications For Us Ideology: Starting With The Personal -- Personal Ideology -- What Shapes Individual Ideology -- Our Ideological Inheritance -- Common Insights From The Ideological Extremes -- 3 Imposing Ideology -- Force -- Education -- Mass Media -- Propaganda -- Language -- Arts And Culture -- Knowledge Claims -- Internalisation -- The Pragmatism Of Ideological Positions -- The Ownership Of Political Ideologies -- Challenging Dominant Ideologies: The Crucial Contradiction -- Any More Participatory? -- Exceptions To The Rule -- The Ideological Merry-go-round -- Part Ii Reclaiming Participation 4 A Different Approach To Ideology -- Participation: A Paradigm Change -- Opening Up The Discussion -- Where This Discussion Now Stands -- New Social Movements -- Welfare User Movements -- Getting To Grips With Participation -- Unpacking Participation -- Past History -- Models And Approaches -- The Politics Of Participation -- The Current Context Of Participation -- Co-production -- Conclusion -- 5 Participation: Challenging The Barriers -- Power -- Whose Participation? Routine Exclusions And Inequalities -- Beyond The Cosy Glow -- The Nature Of Exclusions Key Requirements For Inclusive Involvement -- Access -- Support -- Disabled People: A Case Study -- Turning Ideology Upside Down -- Big New Ideas -- How Disabled People Highlighted Participation -- Part Iii Towards Participatory Ideology -- 6 Learning To Work Together: The Key To Inclusive Involvement -- Learning From The Disabled People's Movement -- Pressures For Participation -- The Urgency To Innovate -- Developing Our Own Collectivity -- Challenging Individualising Assumptions -- Some Problems Of Conventional Collectivity -- 7 Developing Our Own Organisations The Centrality Of Shared Experience -- Organising And Disabled People -- Doing Things Differently: A Case Study -- The Importance Of Doing Things Differently -- 8 Key Concepts For Participatory Ideology -- Theorising Social Change -- Empowerment -- Unifying The Personal And Political -- Enabling Personal Change -- A Basis For Political Change -- Language -- Language And Inequality -- Language And Power -- Making Language Explicit -- Knowledge -- Narrowing The Knowledge Basis -- Challenging Knowledge Discrimination -- Democratising Knowledge -- Democratising Knowledge For Participatory Ideology Description Based Upon Print Version Of Record. The Knowledge Democratisation Movement. Electronic Reproduction. Baltimore, Md Available Via World Wide Web.