Nina Eliasoph

Avoiding Politics

How Americans Produce Apathy in Everyday Life

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Vivid study of American civic life, contrasting private politics and public apathy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. September 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 712g
• ISBN-13: 9780521582933
• ISBN-10: 0521582938
• Artikelnr.: 23173006

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
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. Humour, 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
Appendices
Notes
References
Index.