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Biografisk notat
JON ALEXANDER began his career with success in advertising, winning the prestigious Big Creative Idea of the Year before making a dramatic change.
Driven by a deep need to understand the impact on society of 3,000 commercial messages a day, he gathered three Masters degrees, exploring consumerism and its alternatives from every angle.
In 2014, he co-founded the New Citizenship Project to bring the resulting ideas into contact with reality. In Citizens, he is ready to share them with the world.
ARIANE CONRAD has built a career turning big ideas into books that change the world. Known as the Book Doula, she has co-written several New York Times bestsellers.
BRIAN ENO is an artist, philosopher, Citizen and author of What Art Does, who has played a critical part in British culture since the early 1970s. He is a deep believer in the power of ideas and the possibility of a better world, beliefs which manifest both in his audio and visual art, and in his deep engagement with social, political and environmental issues.
'<b>The answer to many of the global challenges we face today</b>.' –McKinsey Global Consultancy, Top 5 Recommended Read<br /> <br /><b>'Citizens is so exciting and full of energy</b> from the beginning that I wanted to read the whole thing immediately. A wonderful guide to how to be human in the 21st Century.' – <i>Ece Temelkuran, Author, How to Lose a Country: the Seven Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship</i><br /> <br /><br /> <br /><b>'It is an inspiring idea.</b>.. the text of this book should be taught in every civics class everywhere'. – <i>Sunday Independent, Ireland</i><br /> <br /><b>'His lively book has become something of an underground hit</b>.' – <i>Financial Times, Top 5 Political Books</i><br /> <br />‘<b>Citizens is a breath of fresh air</b> amidst deep concern about the future of democracy. It offers a powerful vision for the transformation of our institutions.’ – <i>Marietje Schaake, International Policy Director, Stanford University </i><i>Cyber Policy Center, and author, Democracy.com</i><br /> <br />'<b>The shift from consumer to citizen is a truly big idea</b>. If you’re in a position of strategic influence, I strongly recommend you engage with this and consciously explore what it might mean for your organisation.' – <i>Dame Fiona Reynolds, former Director General, National Trust</i><br /> <br />'<b>In this engaging book</b>, Jon lays out his full vision for how this mindset shift can transform not just business, but NGOs and governments too.' – <i>Alex Edmans, Professor of Finance, London Business School</i><br /> <br />'<b>Citizens is a powerful provocation for our times...</b> <b>Highly recommended</b>.' – <i>Nichola Raihani, Professor of Evolution and Behaviour, University College London, and author, The Social Instinct</i><br /> <br />'<b>The wonderful thing is that he not only gives us hope </b>but more importantly he lights a pathway to make this new paradigm a reality through the years of deep work, thinking and action that have formed the basis of his book.' – <i>Jason Stockwood, Vice Chairman, Simply Business, and Chairman, Grimsby Town Football Club</i><br /> <br />'<b>This is a truly powerful book</b>, in every sense of the word.' – <i>Josh Babarinde, Forbes 30 Under 30 Social Entrepreneur</i><br /> <br />'<b>Every great transformation requires a new story</b>. A story that reveals new possibilities and points toward an optimistic alternative to the current situation. <i>Citizens</i> presents just such a story.' – <i>Tim Brown, Chair of IDEO and author of Change By Design</i><br /> <br /><b>'Jon is working with a set of ideas and tools</b> that have<b> the potential to change politics forever.</b> In fact, they could change everything forever.' – <i>Ian Kearns, Founder and Trustee, European Leadership Network</i><br /> <br />'<b>Citizens is a powerful and intriguing contribution </b>to the search for a genuinely sustainable future.' – <i>David Grayson, Emeritus Professor of Corporate Responsibility at Cranfield University School of Management and co-author of The Sustainable Business Handbook</i><br /> <br />'<b>There is such a thing as an idea whose time has come. This is that idea</b>.' – <i>James Perry, Board Member, B Lab Global, and Founding Partner, Snowball Investment Management</i><br /> <br />'<b>I've never been more convinced he has one of the few big ideas</b> that's easily applied, fundamentally needed and genuinely offers a chance of change. Get on board for his new work, now. I am.' – <i>Sam Conniff, Author, Be More Pirate</i>
- Review Quotes,
'An underground hit' – Best Politics Books, Financial Times
'Jon has one of the few big ideas that's easily applied' – Sam Conniff, Be More Pirate
'A wonderful guide to how to be human in the 21st Century' – Ece Temelkuran, How to Lose a Country
With an introduction by Brian Eno
Citizens opens up a new way of understanding ourselves and shows us what we must do to survive and thrive as individuals, organisations, and nations.
Over the past decade, Jon Alexander’s consultancy, the New Citizenship Project, has helped revitalise some of Britain’s biggest organisations including the Co-op, the Guardian and the National Trust. Here, with the New York Timesbestselling writer Ariane Conrad, he shows how history is about to enter the age of the Citizen.
Because when our institutions treat people as creative, empowered creatures rather than consumers, everything changes.
Unleashing the power of everyone equips us to face the challenges of economic insecurity, climate crisis, public health threats, and polarisation.
Citizens is an upbeat handbook, full of insights, clear examples to follow, and inspiring case studies, from the slums of Kenya to the backstreets of Birmingham – and a foreword by Brian Eno.
It is the perfect pick-me-up for leaders, founders, elected officials – and citizens everywhere. An ideal companion to groundbreaking books such as Doughnut Economics and Radical Help. Organise and seize the future!
Reviews
'Every great transformation requires a new story. A story that reveals new possibilities and points toward an optimistic alternative to the current situation. Citizens presents just such a story.' – Tim Brown, Chair of IDEO and author of Change By Design
'The shift from consumer to citizen is a truly big idea. If you’re in a position of strategic influence, I strongly recommend you engage with this and consciously explore what it might mean for your organisation.' – Dame Fiona Reynolds DBE, Former Director General, National Trust, and Trustee, BBC
'The belief that every single one of us has both the potential and the desire to make the world better drives me every day, in everything I do. In Citizens, Jon shows how taking that belief as a starting point really could transform our world. This is a truly powerful book, in every sense of the word.' - Josh Babarinde, Forbes 30 Under 30 Social Entrepreneur
'There is such a thing as an idea whose time has come. This is that idea.' – James Perry, Board Member, B Lab Global, and Founding Partner, Snowball Investment Management
About the Authors
JON ALEXANDER began his career with success in advertising, winning the prestigious Big Creative Idea of the Year before making a dramatic change.
Driven by a deep need to understand the impact on society of 3,000 commercial messages a day, he gathered three Masters degrees, exploring consumerism and its alternatives from every angle.
In 2014, he co-founded the New Citizenship Project to bring the resulting ideas into contact with reality. In Citizens, he is ready to share them with the world.
BRIAN ENO is an artist, philosopher and Citizen who has played a critical part in British culture since the early 1970s. He is a deep believer in the power of ideas and the possibility of a better world. His latest book is What Art Does.
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1. Opening. Jon Alexander sets out the need to 'step into' the Citizen Story so that we can deal with the many challenges of our age: economic insecurity, ecological emergency, public health threats, political polarisation, and more. Mentions citizens, economic insecurity, ecological emergency
2. Citizens Everywhere. How humans are bound together through interdependence and reciprocity, and in turn have a deep bond with nature, which conventional big business cannot understand. Picks apart the self-dependence and utilitarian philosophy of tech billionaires Peter Thiel and Mark Zuckerberg
3. Citizens By Nature. Central to the Citizen Story is a belief in ourselves and in human nature as creative, capable, and caring, rather than lazy, self-interested, and competitive within a zero-sum framework. Any redesign of institutions will fail if we haven’t embraced this fundamental belief
4. We're All Consumers Now. The launch of the consumer age, by way of Apple's advert for its new Macintosh at the US SuperBowl in 1984. Mentions Apple Macintosh, Ridley Scott, consumer demand, Consumer Story, George Orwell 1984, Virgin Atlantic, Richard Branson, IKEA, Walmart, Virgin Galactic
5. Once We Were Subjects. Before the Consumer, there was another story: the Subject, as in ‘subjects of the king.’ In this story, the Great Man – the Chief, Pope, King, Boss, Father – knows best. The rest of us are innocents, ignorant of important matters. Mentions King Sargon of Akkad and Mesopotamia
6. Citizen NGOs. The Consumer Story is falling apart, but the truth alone is not enough to ensure it passes to the Citizen Story. We must act too, to seize control of our futures, and to ensure that we actually have a future. Case studies include the National Trust in the UK
7. Citizen Business. How businesses can harness the power of the Citizen Story to make their workings more popular and inclusive, and to drive forward societal change. Case studies include the brewery BrewDog in Stonehaven, Scotland. Mentions Martin Dickie, Tesco, craft beer, Equity Punks
8. Citizen Government. Taiwan has pioneered the application of citizen government, in stark comparison to Communist China, which offers a vision of an alternative, authoritarian future. Mentions Taiwan, Taipei, Economic Power Up Plan, Tarek el-Tayeb Mohamed Bouazizi, Arab Spring, Sunflower Revolution
9. Closing. A new Citizen movement is building. Examples include Paris approving a standing Citizens' Assembly and Chile's Citizen-driven Constitutional Convention. Mentions Delian Aspourhov, Restor, Founders Fund, Varda Space Industries, Francis Suarez, Elon Musk, Balaji Srinavasaran
Writing Citizens. The book has been a collaborative process involving several different sets of people and organisations, including not least the New Citizenship Project team
References. The author thanks, among others, Jo Hunter, Emma Ashru Jones, Tendai Chetse, Anna Maria Hosford, National Trust, Helen Meech, Fallon advertising agency, Iris Schönherr, Ariane Conrad, OuiShare Fest, Food Ethics Council, Chris Seeley
Index. A full index of terms used in the book, such as participatory democracy, Certified B Corporations, citizens assemblies, and sortition
What are we doing to ourselves when we tell ourselves we’re Consumers 3000 times a day?
What would it look like to put the same creativity and energy into involving people as Citizens?
What would you do in this time, if you truly believed in yourself and those around you?
Jon Alexander spent the first decade of his career in the advertising industry, selling some of the world’s biggest brands. Then he realised he was caught up in a story he didn’t believe in – the Consumer Story.
Here, with New York Times bestselling writer Ariane Conrad, he shows us what we need to do to step into a bigger idea of ourselves as Citizens: collaborative, caring, creative creatures who can shape our communities, organisations, and nations for the better.
Foreword by Brian Eno (start)
Is there any way out of the mess we’re in?
You certainly wouldn’t think so from reading the papers. The richest people in the world are already scrambling onto the lifeboats, be they called New Zealand or SpaceX. And the poorest are dying in increasing numbers as they flee their war-torn, climate-ravaged countries. Meanwhile official politics seems either impotent or positively malign, a well-oiled machine infallibly finding the worst and pushing them to the top of the heap. Most of the graphs seem to be pointing in the wrong directions: going up when they should be going down, or plummeting when they should be rising.
Yet there is hope. Because something is happening. There is a coalescence. A different story is rising and ripening. It is a story of who we are as humans, what we are capable of, and how we might work together to reimagine and rebuild our world.
This story doesn’t show up on the media radar because that radar is resolutely pointed in the wrong direction. It’s expecting the future to be produced by governments and billionaires and celebrities, so its gaze is riveted on them. But behind their backs, the new story is coming together. It is slower, more diffuse, and more chaotic, because it is a story of widely distributed power, not of traditional power centres. As Jon Alexander and Ariane Conrad name it in this vitally important book, this story is the Citizen Story. When you see the world through the lens of this story, you see that there is a revolution in progress. The people are organising, not only in grassroots movements but also, crucially, inside the very institutions and organisations that are currently failing us. The people are starting to feel their power, and they’re making for the engine rooms.
Symbols
3D printers 111
3 Things for Calgary 247
9/11 13, 113
20th Century 24, 281
20th Century politics 14
21st Century 24
50 Things To Do Before You’re 11. 199
80,000 Hours 24
1984 12, 122, 130, 134
1992 election 131
fiingmenn 93
fiingvellir 93
A
Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO 12
Aberdeen 207
Aberdeenshire 223
AB InBev 223
abortion 255
acanthamoeba 72, 73
advertising 14, 122, 189
advertising industry 12, 178
Aegean 166
AfD 56
Afghanistan 53
Age of Discovery 154, 282
Agricultural Revolution 152
agritechnology 272
Aid Worker 85
Airbnb 107, 134, 230
Air Jordans 12, 127-128
Akomolafe, Bayo 165, 168
Alexander the Great 153
Alibaba 277
Allies, the 203
AlphaFold 279
Alternative for Deutschland 56
altruism 26
America 74, 136, 282
American independence 157
Americans 274
American Tobacco Company 137
American TV shows 53
America’s Founding Fathers 94
Amnesty 204
amoeba 72
AMV 13
Anarchist 85
anarcho-communist 89
Ancient Athens 91
animal rights 8
Annual General Mayhem 210
Annual General Meeting 226
anti-immigrant rhetoric 56
Anywhere but Westminster 191
apocalypse bunkers 33
Apple 122, 126
Arab Spring 236, 275
Archduke Franz Ferdinand 160
Ardern, Jacinda 31-32, 34
Aristotle 153
Asia 53
Aspourhov, Delian 271, 274
Athenian democracy 92
Atlantic, The 81
Attenborough, Sir David 265
Austin, Texas 272
Australia 74, 91, 155, 157- 158, 246
Austria-Hungary 160
authoritarian society 123
Authorities, the 78
avaler 165
Azhar, Azeem 279-280
B
Band Aid 128-129
Bangalore 86
Bank of England 88
Barcelona 86
Barking and Dagenham 11, 252, 254, 262
Basic Income 264, 269
basic services, access to 70
Bay Area 272
BBC 196-197, 219, 269
BCLA 74
Beasant, Steve 81
Beck’s 223
beer 216
behaviour, human 12
Belgium 11, 86, 154, 160
Be More Pirate 94
Berlin 54
Bernays 180
Bernays, Edward 14, 136
Berners-Lee, Tim 279
Berry, Thomas 167
Better Reykjavik 247
Bezos, Jeff 171
Bianca 171, 173, 251, 280
Biden, Joe 263
Big Bang 131
Big Brother 122
Big Consumer Bang 180
Big Creative Idea of the Year 13
Billy 171, 188
biomimicry 30
BioNTech 259-260
biotechnology 272
Birmingham 11, 42-51, 86, 266, 280
Bjarnason, Robert 86
Black Friday 28
Black Lives Matter 22, 263, 284
Blair, Tony 13-14
Blitz, the 113
Bloomsbury 220
Body Shop, The 128-129
Bolsonaro, Jair 163
boomerangs 46
Boomtown Rats, The 129
Bosnian Serb 160
Bouazizi, Tarek el-Tayeb
Mohamed 236
Bracken 208
brain drain 43
Brand Republic 13
Branson, Richard 126-127, 171
Braving the Wilderness 104
Brazil 11, 55
Bretton Woods 138-139, 173
BrewDog 208-209, 216-225, 233
breweries 211, 223
Brexit 96, 107, 189, 256, 269
Brighton 220
Bristol 221
Britain 20, 98, 113, 155, 176, 225-226, 229, 240, 264, 267-269
Britannia Unchained 262
British 154, 204, 274
British Contact Lens Association (BCLA) 74
British Empire 155, 157
British Gas 130
British institution 197
British local elections 284
British manufacturing 43
British National Party 252
British Petroleum 131
British public 130, 133, 262
British Telecom 130-131
Britton, Tessy 252-254, 266
Broken Windows Theory 81, 83
Brooklyn Bridge 236
brown, adrienne maree 50, 254
Brown, Brene 104
Brum 46
Budweiser 223
Bulgarian 270
Bundestag 56
Burkas? We prefer bikinis 56
Bush, George W 13, 14
businesses 11
Buy Me Once 218
ByteDance 277
C
Cabinet Office 263
Cadwalladr, Carole 107
Cairo 274
Calgary 11, 247
Cambridge Analytica 107
Cambridge Classics degree 92
Cambridge University 160
Camden Town Brewery 223
Canada 11, 266
Canadian government 266
Canadian philosopher 105
Capitalism and Freedom 211
Captain 94
Carlyle, Thomas 281
Cassandra 53
Center for Humane Technology 279
central government 267
Centre for Welfare Reform 267
Century Of The Self, The 14
CEOs 110
cerebral palsy 115
Certified B Corporations 212
challenges 10
change.org 231
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative 231
charities 110, 192
Charles I 93
Chile 271
China 6, 152, 155, 242, 246,
258-259, 276-278
China Airlines 258
Chinese Communist Party 238, 245, 259, 275- 276
Chinese government 275
Chinese media 241, 243
Chorr, Bandi 43
Chouinard, Yvon 28
Christchurch 31
Christchurch tragedy 32
Christian Democratic Union 62
Christianity 153
Christian Monarchs 154
cicerones 209
Citizen approach 255, 259, 264
Citizen business 229, 232
Citizen future 270, 278
Citizen Government 235, 245, 247, 252, 254, 261-262
Citizen heroes 94
Citizen insight 182
Citizen instinct 215, 287
Citizen NGOs 188
Citizen organisation 225
Citizen response 241
Citizen revelation 186
Citizens 27, 88, 101, 116, 119, 174, 188, 190, 232, 241, 244, 249, 267, 286
citizens’ assemblies 88
Citizens’ Assemblies 92, 255-258, 265-266, 270
Citizens by nature 23
citizenship 7, 90, 96, 104, 105, 115
Citizenship-as-practice 101
Citizenship-as-status 101
Citizenship benefits 95
Citizens rather than Consumers 190
Citizen Story 5, 19, 20, 26, 28, 30-31, 33, 35, 166, 174, 176, 178, 199, 204, 229, 246, 259, 262, 266, 281, 286, 288
CIVIC SQUARE 50
civitas 95
Clark, Christopher 160
Cleethorpes 79
Climate Assembly 265
Climate change 6
climate emergency 102, 265
Cobudget 34, 87
Cocker, Jarvis 184
Code of Hammurabi 151
Cod Wars 79
Cohen, Leonard 171
collaborations 49
collaborative decision-making 34
Collective, Enspiral 34
Collins, Phil 129
cological emergency 10
colonialism 8, 267, 281
commercial messages 13
communities 41
Community Benefit Society 83
Community Leader 85
Community Power Act 269
Company directors 212
Confucius 152
Congo 68, 87
Conniff, Sam 94
conservation charities 192
Conservation in Action 185, 196
Conservative MPs 262
Conservatives 132
Constitutional Convention 271
consume, as verb 135
Consumer 33, 155, 160, 181, 182, 191, 201
consumer, as identity construct 136
Consumer Confidence 140
Consumer Democracy 266
Consumerism 16
Consumer lens 197
Consumer ‘needs’ 127
Consumers 17, 31, 175, 215,
216, 220, 249
Consumer Story 15-28, 35, 119, 123-141, 147- 148, 157-159, 162, 163, 166, 169, 171, 173-174, 176, 179, 186-187, 189-190, 194, 200, 203, 215, 222, 226, 235, 246, 255, 261, 271, 272- 275, 281-284, 287
Consumer to Citizen 211
Consumption 137
consumption, nature of 14
Contribute ideas 219
conversation leaders 220
Cool Britannia 12
Co-operative Bank 227-228
Co-operative Group 225
Cooperative Wholesale Society (CWS) 226
Co-op Funeralcare 228
Co-op Group 227-229
Copernicus, challenging
orthodoxy 142
Cornea Patient Day 76
pandemic’s lockdown 32
coronavirus pandemic 20, 243
lockdown 20
corporations 126
cost of saving a life 25
Council Elections: Why don’t people vote? 269
Covid 20, 246, 251, 258, 260, 262
Creative Commons license 55
CrowdCube 210
Crowdfund 221
crowdsourcing 30, 240
cryptocurrency 273
Crystal Methodist 227
Curtis, Adam 14
customer is always right, 126
Cypriots 155
D
Dale Davidson, James 274
Danes 154
Dark Matter Labs 46
Dasein, Billy 78
David 284
Dawkins, Richard 114
Dead Dog in the Bathtub, A 82
Declaration of Interdependence 212
Decolonizing Wealth 27
De Correspondent 219
DeepMind 279
deliberative democracy 269
Democracy in Europe 61
Democracy in Europe Movement 60
Democracy in Motion 59
Democratic People’s Party 240
Democratising Development 49
DemoDev 49
demokratia 91
Demokratie in Bewegung 59
Demos 263
Department of Dreams 51
Der Spiegel 55
Descartes 281
Deva, Anneka 46
devolution 267
deworming tablets 25
Dickie, Martin 207-210, 223
Diem25 60
digital platform 250
Dilulio, John 81
Director of Public Relations 180
disabled, the 8
dissidents 274
diversity 185
Diwali 43
Doctors Google and Facebook 72
Dog House Hotel 233
dominant narratives 6
Domokos, John 191
DON’T BUY THIS JACKET 28
Dostoevsky 281
Do They Know It’s Christmas? 128
Dougherty, Dale 111
Dr Google 75, 76
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr 26
Duffy, Simon 267, 268
Duggan, Mark 236
Dutch 154, 219
Dyak headhunters 155
E
East Marsh, Grimsby 78-80, 83
East Marsh United 82, 188
Eat Out To Help Out 22, 262
eBay 230
economic insecurity 10
economic opportunity 70
Economic Power Up Plan 235, 238
economy, the 13
Efrîn, Zeynep 87
Egypt 152, 236, 274
Einstein if he had the internet 274
Ekkeshis, Irenie 'Reen' 171- 176, 287
Emergent Strategy 50
Enabling Sustainable Infrastructure 250
End Of History, The 13
Engineering consent 137
England 178, 268-269
English 244
English Civil War 93-94
English gentlemen 155
Eno, Brian 8
Enspiral collective 86
Entrepreneurial State, The 279
environment 14
environmental charities 29
environmental degradation 213
EpicBrum 48, 49
Equity Punks 209, 210, 216- 217, 218, 223, 224-225
ethical alternative 14
Ethiopian famine 129
ethnic rights 8
Europe 53, 55, 154
European Central Bank 53
European citizenship 97
European Coal and Steel
Community 138
European Court of Human
Rights 204
European Parliament 60
European Union 79, 97, 252
Eurostar 14
Exponential View 280
Extinction Rebellion 22, 263, 265
EY 213
F
Facebook 76, 107, 176, 189, 231, 232, 233, 234, 277
Facebook Live 32
Fairbnb 230
Fairmondo 230
fairtrade 14
Falkvinge, Rick 55
Farha, Leilani 33
farmers 257
Fife 269
Fight For Sight 75
Financial Times 224
Finland 106, 268
Flatpack Democracy 263
Floating Front Room 50
Flowers, Paul 227
folksonomy 106
Footprint Chronicles 30
Foreign Policy 277
Foreign Secretaries 164
formal government 100
Founders Fund 271, 274
Founders’ Syndrome 224
Founding Fathers 136
Four Freedoms 202
Four Ps 176
France 11, 160
Francis Suarez 271
freedom from fear 202
freedom from want 202
freedom of movement 96
freedom of religion 202
freedom of speech 202
French 154, 165
French Citizens’ Climate Convention 265
Freud, Sigmund 14, 136, 138
Frome 11
Fukushima nuclear plant 236
Fukuyama, Francis 13
future, a 10
G
Gal, Dr Orit 34, 177
Garvey, Marcus 64, 66
Gates, Bill 231
Gather data 217
Geldof, Bob 128
gender non-binary 8
Gender rights 8
Generation Y 103
Generation Z 103
German 53
German government 260
German national politics 62
Germany 20, 54, 57-58, 160, 161, 163, 267, 280
Get Brexit Done 79
Getting the Girl 282
Giffgaff 220
Gig Economy 107
Give time 219
Giving What We Can 25
Gladwell, Malcolm 81
Glasgow climate talks 205
Glassman, Ronald 91
Global Britain 262
Global Citizens’ Assembly 205
gods 281
Goebbels, Joseph 137
Golden Age Pirates 93-94
golden passports 97, 273
Good Energy 225
Good Future Board 225
Google 189, 277
Government 236
governments 11
Gov Zero 237, 239, 244, 248
grassroots nature conservation 270
Great Deeds 90
Great Men 90, 148, 281, 286
Greece 92
Greek Cypriot 71
Greek descent 71
Greek finance minister 60
Green New Deal 61
Greenpeace 213-214
Grey, Sir Edward 160
Grimmson, Gunnar 86
Grimsby, England 78-80, 83, 188
docks 79
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) 139-140
groupthink 58
Guardian Live 189, 191
Guardian Media Group 189
Guardian, The 188-192, 258
H
Habsburg Empire 160
hackathons 258
Hacker-Entrepreneur 85
Halifax, Lord 145
Hardin, Garrett 114
Harris, John 191
Harris, Tristan 279
Harvard 25
Harvard Business Review 213
Hayfield 183
Health and Social Care Campaigner of the Year 77
healthcare 96
health charities 192
Heath, Ted 132
Heineken 224
Here Comes Everybody 60
hero culture 280
heroes 284
Hill, Octavia 179
Hindu festival of lights 43
HISBE (How It Should Be) 220
historic house 178
Hitler, Adolph 137
Hochschild, Arlie Russell 145
Homelessness 158
Hong Kong 277
Hope In The Dark 286
Hotpoint Liberator 141
How to Citizen 95
Hughes, Chris 231
human history 7, 274
humanity 116, 205
human nature 12, 90, 115, 123, 125
human rights 96
Humber Lodge 80
Humber River 78
Hunting and gathering 150
Hurricane Katrina 113
I
I Am Punk 210, 217
IBM 122
Iceland 11, 78, 93, 106
Icelandic sagas 92
IKEA 127
immigration 88, 96
Impact Hub Birmingham 47, 50
Imperial India 157
Income, basic 265
India 158
Indigenous leaders 29
indigenous rights 8
individualism 282
individual rights 151
individual self-interest 99
Industrial Revolution 157
Indus Valley 92, 152
Ing-wen, Tsai 240, 248
Innovative Citizen Participation
Network 255
institutions 11
intellectual property 209
International Monetary Fund (IMF) 138
international NGOs 206
International Standards Organisation 77
internet 108
intrapreneurs 88
invasion of Iraq 14
Ireland 11, 256, 257
Irish public 255-257
Israel 236
Israeli strategist 34
Italy 20, 154
J
James, Henry 282
Jenkinson, Stephen 103
Jevons, William Stanley 135
Jiabao, Wen 275
Jinping, President Xi 275-278
Jin-Pyng, Wang 238-239,
248, 251, 286
Jintao, Hu 275
Jobs, Steve 171
John 284
Johnson, Boris 20, 22, 79, 260, 262
Johnson, Dr Ayana Elizabeth 109
Ju’/hoansi 91
junzi 152
K
Kaiser Wilhelm 161
Kamau 64
Kaur, Imandeep ‘Immy’ 42, 85, 171, 173, 252, 254, 266, 279
Kelling, George L 81
Kennedy 171, 173, 188, 252, 280
Kenya 110
Khan, Genghis 281
Kibaki, Mwai 67
Kibera 63, 64, 68, 188
Kibera School for Girls 69
Kickstarter 221
Kikuyu gang 68
Kinder Mass Trespass 183
Kinder Scout 183, 184
King Harald 92
King John 93
kings 164, 280
King Sargon of Akkad 150, 171
Klein, Naomi 13
Kleisthenes 91
KlimaUnion 62
Kuhn, Thomas 167
Kuomintang Party (KMT) 237
L
Labour Party 263
Lakoff, George 143
Lal Bal Pal 159, 162
Land of Hope and Glory 156
Lawrence of Arabia 162, 163
League of Nations 202
Learn skills 220
LeaveEU 107
Lebow, Victor 139
Legislative Yuan 238-239
Leverage Points: Places to
Intervene in a System 165
liberal capitalist democracy 13
Liberal Democrats 263
liberal elite 89
Liege 86
Life You Can Save, The 24
Lincolnshire 78
liquid democracy 234
Lloyd George, David 145
local council elections 98
local government 268
localism 267
lockdown 245
London 12, 45, 46, 71, 114, 179, 191, 196, 220, 236, 267
London museum 196
London Stock Exchange 128
Lone Wolf 222
Loomio 34, 87
Lord Curzon 159
lower-class childhood 53
Luo ethnic group 67
Luther King, Martin 5, 64
Luther, Martin 281
M
MacAskill, William 24
Macedonia 153
Macintosh 12, 122, 126
Mad Men 13
Magna Carta 93
Make America Great Again 146
Maker Movement 110
malaria nets 25
Malta 97
Maltese citizenship 97
Manchester 86, 183, 225
Manhattan 236
Māori people 32, 34
Marcario, Rose 28
marine biologist 109
Marketing campaigns 200
Marketing Mix 175-176
Marking the Map 46
Marley, Bob 66
Marylebone Road 12
Mason, Dr Barry 170
Mason, Paul 237
Mass LBP 266
mass migration 102
Masters in International Development 44
Matrix, The 120
Maya 152
Mayors 265, 268
Mazzucato, Mariana 279
MBA programmes 175
McCartney, Paul 129
McFadyen, Joshua and Sallie 223
McGahey, Mick 132
McKinsey 213
Mcluhan, Marshall 105
Meadows, Donella 147, 165
Medellin 86
Meetup 106
Membership marketing 185
Merkel, Angela 56
Mesopotamia 92, 150, 152
Methodist minister 227
Mexico City 86, 113, 205
Miami 272-273
Miami Tech Week 272
Michael, George 129
Michelangelo 281
Microsoft 231
migration 44
Milgram experiment 115, 144
Milton Friedman 211
Mission Birmingham 48
Mistrust 169
MIT journalism 190
Modi, Narendra 163
Molson Coors 224
Mondragon 229
Moorfields Eye Hospital 72, 76
More In Common 262
Morpheus 120
Morris, Jan 155
Moskowitz, Dustin 25
mosques 31
Mother of Parliaments 93
Movement for British Culture 197
Mubarak, Hosni 274
Mughal Emperor 43
Mungiki 68
museums 11
Musk, Elon 274-275
Muslim 276
Muslim immigrants 96
Muvunga, Patrick 87
N
Nairobi 63
Nakivale Refugee Settlement 87
Napoleon 281
Napster 106
NASUWT 195
National Coal Board 132
National Council of Voluntary
Organisations 192
national exceptionalism 156
National Front, France 56
National Health Service 113, 261
National Health Service First
Responders 21
nationalism 96
National Land Fund 179
National Park 183
National Public Credit Information Centre 276
National Security Agency 277
National Trust 178-187, 192,
194-196, 199-200
National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) 131
Native Americans 91
Naylor, Chris 252
neighbourhood 102
Nenshi, Naheed 247
neoconservative 81
neoliberal 7
neuroplasticity 170
neurotechnology 272
New Citizenship Project 17- 18, 39, 77, 174-175, 178, 186, 192-193, 196, 212-213, 215-217, 221, 253, 264, 287
New Footprint Chronicles 28
New Labour 12
New Orleans 113
New School, New York City 230
New York 113, 220, 267
New York City 86, 137, 230
New York Times 28
New York University 60
New Zealand 7, 31, 32, 33, 86, 106, 246
NGOs 88, 110, 176, 186, 187, 188, 204, 206
NHS First Responders 261
Nigerian 165
Nike 12, 127, 128
Nobel Prize for Economics 114
No Logo 13
Northern Ireland 178, 269
Norway 92
No Water 75, 77
NZ First 33
O
Oatly 129, 219
Occupy Wellington 86
Odede, Kennedy 63
Jackie, sister 64
Odin 281
Odinga, Raila 67
OECD 280
Old World ideas 136
Open Ministry, Finland 106
Open News Think-Ins 219
Open Philanthropy Project 25
Open Source Movement 55, 111
Opportunigee 87
orangutan costumes 213
Organisation for Economic
Co-operation and
Development (OECD) 138, 255
organisations 11
Orwell, George 122, 126
Orwell Prize for Journalism 191
Osnos, Evan 275
Ostrom, Elinor 114
O’Toole, Fintan 256-257
Oxbridge 89
Oxfam 204
Oxford Circus 16
P
Pacific, the 157
pagan 154
Pal, Bipin Chandra 158
pandemic lockdown 112
Paradise Built in Hell, A 113
Paris 11, 267, 271
Paris Peace Conference 162
Parkinson’s Can’t 194
Parkinson’s Disease Society 194
Parkinson’s UK 192-193, 195, 196
Park Slope Food Coop 220
parliaments 268
participatory budgeting 34
Participatory City 252, 266
participatory democracy 271
Pasifika people 32, 34
Patagonia 28-31, 217
paternalism 152, 153
patriarchy 150
Paypal 273-274
PayPal 33
Peak District National Park 183
people of colour 8
People’s Daily 241
People’s Declaration for the
Sustainable Future of
Planet Earth 205
Perikles 91
personality 123
Pfauth, Ernst-Jan 220
philanthropists 179, 183
philanthropy 24
philosopher 165, 280
photophobia 72
Picasso 26
Pirate Party 54
platforms 175-176, 215
Plato 152-153
poets 281
Policies of Belonging, The 263
policymaking 263
pol.is 239, 263
political parties 100
political polarisation 10
politics 16
politike 91
Polman, Paul 213
polyhexanide 72
poor, the 8
Pope, the 153-154
Port Loop 50
Porto Allegre 11
Portuguese 154
PPE 243
Praetorius, Bianca 53
pre-colonial Africa 91
Presidential Hackathon 250, 261
Preston 269
Prime Ministers 13, 164
pro-democracy protestors 276
Product, Price, Placement
and Promotion 175
Project Wild Thing 185
prophets 281
protectionism 96
Prototyping 175-176
Proud East Marshian, the 83
public health 10
Public Makerspace 253
Punjab 43, 44, 50
Punk IPA 208
Punks With Purpose 224
Purpose 175-176, 214-215
Purpose, Platform, and Prototype 175
Putin, Vladimir 237
Putney Debates 93
Putney, St Mary’s Church 93
Q
QAnon conspiracy 169
Quartermaster 94
Queen Victoria 155, 179
Quixote, Don 282
R
Radical Childcare project 49
Rags to Riches 282
Raihani, Professor Nichola 114
Rai, Lala Lajpat 158
Rainsborough, Colonel
Thomas 93
Rajput 155
randomised control trials 24
Rees-Mogg, William 274
referendums 98
refugee camps 11, 88
Regional Mutual Banks 269
regulation 278
religion 150
Resistance, the 165
Restor 271
Reykjavik 93
Better Reykjavik 86, 106
Reynolds, Fiona 181
rhetoric of personal responsibility 22
rich, the 7
ride-sharing apps 230
rights to work 96
Rio de Janeiro 87
Rochdale 225
Rochdale Society of Equitable
Pioneers 226
Roddick, Anita 128
Rojava 87
Roman Empire 152
Roman forum 50
Rome 92
Roosevelt, Eleanor 203
Roosevelt, Theodore 202
Roundtable on Sustainable
Palm Oil (RSPO) 213
Royal Dutch Shell 220
Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) 192
Rule Britannia 156
Russia 154, 160, 236
Rutland Street, Grimsby 78
Rwanda 68
S
Salt March 159
San Francisco 113, 272
Sanskrit 159
Sarajevo 160
Sarbat da Bhalla 43
Sargon 152
SARS 245
Satan 169
Scargill, Arthur 133
Schengen Convention 57
Scholz, Trebor 230
Schönherr, Iris 253
schools 11
Schuman, Robert 138
scientific methodology 24
Scotland 178, 207, 265, 269, 280
Scott, Ridley 122
secondgov 106
Seedrs 210
selfish gene theory 114
self-reliance 282
Serb nationalism 160
Serendipity engines 48
Sereny, Gitta 145
Seven Modes of Everyday Participation 216, 247
sex workers 97
shanty towns 11
Share connections 218
shareholders 211-212
shareholder value 212
sharing economy 107, 230
Sheffield 267
Sheila McKechnie Award 77
Shining Hope for Communities 65
Shirky, Clay 60
SHOFCO 65, 66, 69-70, 188
Shrewsbury School 141
Sierra Nevada Pale Ale 207
Sikhism 43
Siliconia 6
Silicon Valley 254, 271-272
Silva, Rene 87
Singapore 242
Singer, Peter 24
Sinovac 259
Skynet 276
Sleepwalkers, The 160
Smithsonian 192
Snowden, Edward 32
Snow Revolution 237
social acupuncture 34
Social Credit System 276, 277
social entrepreneurship 87
social media platforms 99
social movements 11
Social order 151
soft skills 108
software program 263
Solnit, Rebecca 113, 286
Solon 91
Somerset 11
sortition 91
South By South West 272
Sovereign Individuals 275-281
Spacehive 247
SpaceX 7, 273
Spanish business group 229
Speer, Albert 144
Sri Lanka 53
Srinavasaran, Balaji 274,277-278
Stanford Prison Experiment 115
Starbase, Texas 273
startup founders 272
start-up scene 54
startup visas 272
State of the Union Address 202
Stay Alert. Control the Virus. Save Lives. 20
Stay Home. Protect the NHS. Save Lives. 20
Stella Artois 223
Sting 129
Stonehaven 207, 208
Stories 115
Strangers In Their Own Land 145
Structure of Scientific Revolutions, The 167
Suarez, Francis 272
Subject Era 121
Subject Government 246
Subject organisation 180
Subject Story 18, 20-21, 35-36, 148-149, 153- 154, 155, 157, 159, 161-163, 171, 173, 179, 201-203, 235, 274, 276-277, 281
Sun and Moon Community
Arts Festival 83
Sunday Times, The 208
Sunflower Revolution 238
Super Bowl 122
superbrands 12, 126-127
superpower status, US 138
superpredator theory 81
superwealthy 33
surveillance 275-277
Sustainable Development
Goals 250
Swadeshi 159
Swarmwise: the Tactical
Manual to Changing the World 55
Sweden 54, 154, 246
Syria 236
Syrian refugees 55
T
tagging 106
Taipei 235, 245, 251, 258, 260
Taiwan 11, 235, 238-239, 241, 243, 245, 248- 252, 258, 260-261, 287
Tang, Audrey 239-240, 242, 248, 251
Tate 192
taxation 267-268
tax havens 272
Team Parkinson’s 193
tech entrepreneurs 54
Technology Entertainment Design 45
Tech Will Save Us 221
TED Talks 104
TEDxBrum 47
TEDx conference 45
T E Lawrence, Colonel 162
Tell stories 217
Temelkuran, Ece 166-169, 280
Tesco 208
Tesla 273
Thatcher, Margaret 130-131,
133-134, 273-274
Thiel, Peter 33, 274-275
thinkers 281
Third Culture Kids 103
Three Citizen Ps 175
Three Principles of Participatory Organisations 175
Three Ps, The 176
Thurston, Baratunde 95
Tilak, Bal Gangadhar 158
Time Magazine 258
Tipping Point, The 81
Together: 10 Choices for a Better Now 166
Tokyo 267
Tony Blair 12
Tony Blair Faith Foundation 45
Tony’s Chocolonely 129
Toronto 266
Tortoise 219, 240
Towards Positions of Safe
Uncertainty 170
trade unionism 132
Trespass, Kinder Scout 183, 184
True belonging 104
Trump, Donald 33, 55, 107, 146, 163, 189, 263
Tsai, Jaclyn 239
Tsarist Russia 161
TSG Consumer Partners 223
Tunisia 236
Turkey 53, 166
Turkish family 73
Twitter 223
U
U2 129
Uber 107, 134, 230, 240, 249-250
Uganda 87
UK 195, 217, 220, 248, 259,
264, 265, 266, 269
UK Climate Assembly 265
UK government 261, 266
underclasses 281
underinvestment 82
Unilever 213-214
United Kingdom (see also UK) 269
United Nations 186, 201, 203, 206, 245, 250, 279
United States (see also US) 106, 122, 128, 204, 271, 276
Universal Basic Income,
support for the idea 265
Universal Declaration of
Human Rights 173, 176, 201, 203-204, 206, 230
University College London 114
UN special rapporteur on right to adequate housing 33
upcycling 87
US 98, 265, 276
Useem, Ruth Hill 103
US population 169
US Presidency 189
Us versus Them 96
utilitarian philosophy 24
Uyghurs 277
V
Vanneck-Smith, Katie 219
Varda Space Industries 271
Varoufakis, Yanis 60
venture capitalists 110, 272
Viceroy of India 159
Victim-Survivor 85
Victorian Britain 161
Villanueva, Edgar 27
Viner, Katharine 188, 190
ViralKindness 21, 112
Virgin Atlantic 12, 126
Virgin Galactic 127
Virgin Group 127
Volkswagen 144
volunteering 47
Voz da Comunidade 87
vTaiwan 239, 250, 263
W
Wales 178, 265, 269
Walker, Peter 132
Wall Street Journal 219
Walmart 127
wardens, National Trust 184
Washington DC 191
Watt, James 207, 208, 209, 210, 223
Weiwei, Ai 274
Wellcome Collection 192, 196
Wellcome Collective 196
Wellcome Trust 196
Weller, Paul 129
Wellington 86
Wesleyan University, US 69
Western history 91, 281
Westminster parliamentary system 93
Wharton, Edith 282
WhatsApp 112
Where is the power? 222
white English identity 96
Whitehall 267
Wilson, James Q 81
Wilson, Woodrow 162
Wired 272
wokeness 277
women 8
Women’s Defence Units 87
Wonka, Willy 224
Wordpress 106
working people 183
World Bank 138
World Cooperative Monitor 229
World Health Organisation 245
World Trade Center 13
World War I 136, 144, 160- 162, 272, 184
World War II 137, 163, 179, 201
World Wide Web 278
World Wildlife Fund (WWF) 192
worst place to live in the country 78
writing 150
Wuhan 242, 243
Wuhan Municipal Health Commission 240
WWF 192
Y
Yemen 236
Yorkshire 78, 80
Yuup 221
Z
Zeus 281
Zuccotti Park 236
Zuckerberg, Mark 25, 231-
232, 274, 278
Zuckerman, Ethan 190
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
JON ALEXANDER began his career with success in advertising, winning the prestigious Big Creative Idea of the Year before making a dramatic change.
Driven by a deep need to understand the impact on society of 3,000 commercial messages a day, he gathered three Masters degrees, exploring consumerism and its alternatives from every angle.
In 2014, he co-founded the New Citizenship Project to bring the resulting ideas into contact with reality. In Citizens, he is ready to share them with the world.
ARIANE CONRAD has built a career turning big ideas into books that change the world. Known as the Book Doula, she has co-written several New York Times bestsellers.
BRIAN ENO is an artist, philosopher, Citizen and author of What Art Does, who has played a critical part in British culture since the early 1970s. He is a deep believer in the power of ideas and the possibility of a better world, beliefs which manifest both in his audio and visual art, and in his deep engagement with social, political and environmental issues.