ISBN:
9780511583391
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (x, 330 pages)
Series Statement:
Cambridge cultural social studies
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DDC:
306.2/0973
Keywords:
Geschichte 1900-2000
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Politik
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Political participation / United States
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Political alienation / United States
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Political culture / United States
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Public opinion / United States
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Politikverdrossenheit
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USA
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United States / Politics and government / 20th century / Public opinion
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USA
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Electronic books
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USA
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Politikverdrossenheit
Abstract:
Nina Eliasoph's vivid portrait of American civic life reveals an intriguing culture of political avoidance. Despite the importance for democracy of open-ended political conversation among ordinary citizens, many Americans try hard to avoid appearing to care about politics. To discover how, where and why Americans create this culture of avoidance, the author accompanied suburban volunteers, activists, and recreation club members for over two years, listening to them talk - and avoid talking - about the wider world, together and in encounters with government, media, and corporate authorities. She shows how citizens create and express ideas in everyday life, contrasting their privately expressed convictions with their lack of public political engagement. Her book challenges received ideas about culture, power and democracy, while exposing the hard work of producing apathy
Description / Table of Contents:
1. The mysterious shrinking circle of concern -- 2. Volunteers trying to make sense of the world -- 3. "Close to home" and "for the children": trying really hard not to care -- 4. Humor, nostalgia, and commercial culture in the postmodern public sphere -- 5. Creating ignorance and memorizing facts: how Buffaloes understood politics -- 6. Strenuous disengagement and cynical chic solidarity -- 7. Activists carving out a place in the public sphere for discussion -- 8. Newspapers in the cycle of political evaporation -- 9. The evaporation of politics in the US public sphere -- App. 1. Class in the public sphere -- App. 2. Method
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DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511583391
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