Jon Alexander, Ariane Conrad. Citizens: why the key to fixing everything is all of us. Canbury Press. 2022.

People participating in society are citizens.

  • Opening
  • Seeing Our Potential
    • Citizens Everywhere
      • Immy, Birmingham, England
      • Bianca, Berlin, Germany
      • Kennedy, Kibera, Kenya
      • Reen, London, England
      • Billy, Grimsby, England
      • citizens everywhere
    • Citizens by Nature
      • citizenship as practice
      • less the nation, more the home
      • citizens equipped
      • the power of amateurs
      • this is who we are
  • Seeing Our Prisons
    • We're All Consumers Now
      • Thatcher's dream
      • the rise of the consumer
      • life inside stories
    • Once We Were Subjects
      • 1897
      • the story wars
      • how to change a story
      • crossing the threshold
  • Unleashing Our Power
    • Citizen NGOs
      • unlocking purpose, unleashing support
      • putting the organising into organisations
      • sweating the small stuff
      • a new universal declaration of human rights
    • Citizen Business
      • beyond purpose: business as a platform
      • the seven modes of everyday participation
        1. tell stories
        2. gather data
        3. share connections
        4. contribute ideas
        5. give time
        6. learn skills
        7. crowdfund
      • where is the power?
      • citizen facebook
    • Citizen Government
      • citizens x covid
      • government by prototype
      • inch wide, mile deep
      • making the big decisions faster, together
      • yes we can
      • citizens' Britain
  • Closing
    • the Chinese dream
    • a final question - what would you do in this time, if you truly believed in yourself and those around you?
  • Writing Citizens
  • References
  • Index