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.