Rethinking the public : : Innovations in research, theory and politics / / ed. by Nick Mahony, Janet Newman, Clive Barnett.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-1995
• MitwirkendeR: Barnett, Clive,; Bhasin, Gurpreet,; Gabay, Clive,; Gambles, Richenda,; Griffin, Liza,; Hutta, J. Simon,; Jupp, Eleanor,; Mahony, Nick,; Newman, Janet,; Pykett, Jessica,; Rodgers, Scott,
• HerausgeberIn: Barnett, Clive,; Mahony, Nick,; Newman, Janet,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2010]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (188 p.)

This book rethinks the public, public communication and public action in a globalising and mediated world. It develops novel theoretical perspectives for investigating the formation of publics, focusing on four overlapping processes: claiming publics; personalising publics; mediating publics; and becoming public. Using fascinating case studies, Rethinking the public offers a rich set of methodological resources on which other researchers can draw and foregrounds the need to interrogate the boundaries between theory, research and politics. It is ideal reading for higher level undergraduate and masters programmes in politics, geography, public policy, sociology, social policy, public administration and cultural studies.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Contents -- Notes on contributors -- Introduction: rethinking the public -- Mediating the publics of public participation experiments -- Going public? Articulations of the personal and political on Mumsnet.com -- Digitising and visualising: old media, new media and the pursuit of emerging urban publics -- Mediating publics in colonial Delhi -- Public and private on the housing estate: small community groups, activism and local officials -- Whose education? Disentangling publics, persons and citizens -- Fishing for the public interest: making and representing publics in North Sea fisheries governance reforms -- De-naming the beast: the Global Call to Action against Poverty and its multiple forms of publicness -- Paradoxical publicness: becoming-imperceptible with the Brazilian lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender movement -- Conclusion: emergent publics -- Index