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Avoiding Politics: How Americans Produce Apathy in Everyday Life

Categorie	Psychologie
Boeknummer	#219361
Titel	Avoiding Politics: How Americans Produce Apathy in Everyday Life
Auteur	Eliasoph, Nina
Boektype	Paperback
Uitgeverij	Cambridge University Press
Jaar van uitgave	2003
ISBN10	052158759X
ISBN13	9780521587594
Taal	Engels
Samenvatting	Nina Eliasoph's vivid portrait of American civic life reveals an intriguing culture of political avoidance. Despite the importance for democracy of open-ended political conversation among ordinary citizens, many Americans try hard to avoid appearing to care about politics. To discover how, where and why Americans create this culture of avoidance, the author accompanied suburban volunteers, activists, and recreation club members for over two years, listening to them talk - and avoid talking - about the wider world, together and in encounters with government, media, and corporate authorities. She shows how citizens create and express ideas in everyday life, contrasting their privately expressed convictions with their lack of public political engagement. Her book challenges received ideas a... (Lees verder)bout culture, power and democracy, while exposing the hard work of producing apathy.
Pagina's	330
Conditie	Als nieuw
Prijs	€ 15,00

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