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...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, U.K. ; New York :
Cambridge University Press
1998.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Cambridge cultural social studies. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b38468748*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
