Taylor and Francis McFarland, A: Boycotts and Dixie Chicks

Political participation takes many forms, from Tea Party protests to terrorism.This book looks at individuals who lack established political institutions throughwhich to exercise public action and thus choose to cooperate in an innovativemanner to achieve their goals. This is what Andrew S. McFarland calls creativepolitical participation, and here he explores it in the context of environmental, political, consumer, and transnational protest issues. McFarland 's examples andreach are prescient in light of the 2011 peoples movements throughout the MiddleEast and the American Middle West.