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.'

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 Times bestselling writer Ariane Conrad, he shows how history is about to enter age of the Citizen. With all the resources and ingenuity at our dispoal, we humans can solve our problems. But we don't. Why not ? And what can you and I do about it ? Rankine talks of tennis, of Serena and Venus, of foot faults and bad calls. I didn’t know these things: I don’t watch tennis. But foot faults and bad calls are happening on our streets, not within the civilized constraints of a rule-bound tennis game. These I do watch. The agony of the small daily slights crescendo, collapse, avalanche when the police become involved. No wonder people run away from police, our ‘guardians’. We have all learned something these many years and it is not that police are guardians.But however you read this book, read it. And I am sure that, if you love Coates' Between the World and Me as much as I do, you will like this book very much. Ms. Rankine notes the reason she writes in the second person: "Sometimes “I” is supposed to hold what is not there until it is. Then what is comes apart the closer you are to it." Andrew, Sally (2015-10-27). "Awards: Hurston/Wright Legacy; CODE Burt; Readings". Shelf Awareness . Retrieved 2022-01-28. Jon Alexander's New Citizenship Project speaks to action in the real world but has an immensely solid base in ideas as expressed in words, the meanings and applications of which he first teases out and then rams home with elan and gusto in this bravely inspiring book.'

A wonderful guide to how to be human in the 21st Century' – Ece Temelkuran, How to Lose a Country: the Seven Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship Claudia Rankine demands answers: What did you just say? Did you really just say that? Did that really come out of your mouth? Why do you think it's okay for you to talk to me like that? Why don't you write about this? Why do you feel comfortable saying this to me? Kellaway, Kate (2015-08-30). "Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine review – the ugly truth of racism". the Guardian . Retrieved 2022-01-28. talk to us about any other kind of problem- we can usually help between 9am and 5pm, Monday to FridayLove, Heather (2016-09-01). "Small Change: Realism, Immanence, and the Politics of the Micro". Modern Language Quarterly. 77 (3): 419–445. doi: 10.1215/00267929-3570678. ISSN 0026-7929. Lee, Felicia R. (2014-11-28). "A Poetry Personal and Political". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved 2022-01-28.

Citizen lead me to several thoughts: on the surface, I want to read all of Claudia Rankine's work, AND I didn't realize that prose poetry was such a thing (how did I miss this?) and I adore the form. Little snippets, vignettes, glimpses. O'Rourke, Kenna (2018-10-23). "On Citizen: An American Lyric, by Claudia Rankine (Reviewed by Kenna O'Rourke)". The Adroit Journal . Retrieved 2022-01-28. 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 Times bestselling writer Ariane Conrad, he shows how history is about to enter age of the Citizen. 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

Jon is working with a set of ideas and tools that have the potential to change politics forever. In fact, they could change everything forever.' – Ian Kearns, Founder and Trustee, European Leadership Network You Are A Global Citizen challenges us to take a deeper look at our role as global citizens, from the armchair traveller to the frequent flyer and everyone in between, providing a springboard for us to understand the world and other cultures by first understanding ourselves.

The only reason I'm giving this 4 stars instead of 5 was because I didn't enjoy reading the included scripts for situational videos Claudine and her husband created. I found them more gratifying to watch than read. Still, this is an important book and one I'm glad I read. She relates how it feels to be judged and hated because of the colour of her skin. To not even feel her body belongs to her because it is always up for judgment and criticism. As she says, "The worst injury is feeling you don’t belong so much to you" The book consists of seven poetic sections accompanied by images of paintings, drawings, sculptures, and screen grabs. Some have called the book one single poem, while others break it into its various sections, considering each its own poem. Although few of the poems have formal titles, they are strung together with consistent themes and prosaic tendencies. Marietje Schaake, International Policy Director, Stanford University Cyber Policy Center, and author, Democracy.comThe whole feels like a kind of mediation on citizenship, make of that meditation what you will, because she is not writing James Baldwin essays or Coates memoir. She is making with Lucas bricolage, or pastiche. Some of it is just small observations of every day racism, the everydayness of 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. Is this book about poliitics ? Is it about business ? The arts, environment, science, technology, finance ? My own field of building and infrastructure ? It is a book about all of these because it is a book about patterns in how we think about ourselves and each other. Only a true hermit would have no use for this book. This uniquely accessible guided journal ignites your inner curiosity and encourages self-discovery through thought-provoking questions about the cultures you have experienced - including your own - all while helping you become a more inquisitive, aware, observant, and engaged world citizen.