Avoiding politics : how Americans produce apathy in everyday life /
Nina Eliasoph's vivid portrait of American civic life reveals an intriguing culture of political avoidance. Open-ended political conversation among ordinary citizens is said to be the fount of democracy, but many Americans try hard to avoid appearing to care about politics. To discover how, whe...
| Основен автор: | Eliasoph, Nina, (Author) |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Cambridge, U.K. ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1998.
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| Серия: |
Cambridge cultural social studies.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=55879 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Avoiding politics. |
Съдържание:
- The mysterious shrinking circle of concern
- Volunteers trying to make sense of the world
- "Close to home" and "for the children": trying really hard not to care
- Humor, nostalgia, and commercial culture in the postmodern public sphere
- Creating ignorance and memorizing facts: how Buffaloes understood politics
- Strenuous disengagement and cynical chic solidarity
- Activists carving out a place in the public sphere for discussion
- Newspapers in the cycle of political evaporation
- The evaporation of politics in the US public sphere
- App. 1. Class in the public sphere
- App. 2. Method.