Political (dis)engagement : : the changing nature of the 'political' / / Nathan Manning.

• Superior document: Contemporary issues in social policy
• TeilnehmendeR: Manning, Nathan,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol : : Policy Press,, 2015.
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Contemporary issues in social policy.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (x, 254 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s).
• Notes: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Mar 2022).

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.

Table of Contents

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.