Political (dis)engagement the changing nature of the 'political'
Academics from a range of disciplines join with political activists to explore the meaning of politics and citizenship in contemporary society and the current forms of political (dis)engagement, providing a timely interdisciplinary dialogue and interrogation of contemporary political practices.
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bristol :
Policy Press
2015.
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| Colección: | Contemporary issues in social policy.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009655349306719 |
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- Spread the message: there is an alternative
- Building the anti-cuts movement and empowering people through direct action
- Conclusion: resisting the government's lies and promoting alternatives for the 99%
- 7. Doubly disillusioned? Young Muslims and mainstream British politics
- Introduction
- Decline in mainstream political participation
- Ethnic minority young people
- Double disillusionment: the particular case of British Pakistani Muslims
- To participate or not to participate?
- Biraderi politics across generations
- Conclusion
- Part Three: The politics of identity and marginalisation
- 8. Political engagement among ethnic minority young people: exploring new grammars of action
- Introduction
- A crisis of participation?
- Research design
- Changing political participation
- New grammars of action
- New technologies, global engagement and DIY activism
- DIY ethnicity, reflexive religiosity and political activism
- Conclusion
- 9. 'Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere'
- Introduction
- Spot the Black MP
- Political participation: patterns of disengagement
- The cost of disengagement
- Operation Black Vote: our future in is in our hands
- Stop 'whitewashing' history
- Conclusion
- 10. Political participation is self-interest ... but not in the way you might think
- Introduction
- Rethinking self and interest
- Mobilising participation through construing interest
- Conclusion
- 11.Conclusion: politics as open-ended process
- Index.
- POLITICAL (DIS)ENGAGEMENT
- Contents
- List of figures and tables
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1. Introduction
- The changing landscape of politics
- Contemporary political (dis)engagements
- The politics of identity and marginalisation
- Structure of the volume
- Part One: The changing landscape of politics
- 2. Does participation always have a democratic spirit?
- Introduction
- Participation and democracy: some innovative insights
- Assessing participation's democratic ups and downs
- Democratic deficits in political participation?
- 3. Love always wins: All Out's campaign for equality everywhere
- Introduction
- 4. Social media and political participation: BBC World Service and the Arabic Spring
- Introduction
- Participatory journalism: opportunities and constraints
- Political participation and deliberative literacies
- The BBC World Service: public service vs public diplomacy
- Case study: Nuqtat Hewar
- Evaluating BBC Arabic's 'global conversation'
- Engaging audiences vs gatekeeping practices
- Participation in the 'global conversation'
- The quality of conversation and plurality of viewpoints
- Conclusion
- Part Two: Contemporary political (dis)engagements
- 5. Feeling politics: the importance of emotions for understanding electoral (dis)engagement
- Introduction
- Emotion and politics: strange bedfellows?
- The increasing importance of emotion in reflexive modernity
- The need to emotionalise reflexivity
- The study
- 'Ordinary people' struggling for connection
- Frustration, resentment and indignation: politicians' ignoring economic disadvantage
- Concluding remarks
- 6. UK Uncut: direct action against austerity
- Introduction
- How UK Uncut started
- Getting online, getting organised and getting out on thestreets
- Strategy and tactics for the anti-cuts movement.
