Avoiding Politics: How Americans Produce Apathy in Everyday Life

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Cambridge University Press, 13 серп. 1998 р. - 330 стор.
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 about culture, power and democracy, while exposing the hard work of producing apathy.
 

Зміст

The mysterious shrinking circle of concern
1
Volunteers trying to make sense of the world
23
The institutional setting for volunteering the Caring Adult Network
47
Close to home and for the children trying really hard not to care
64
Humor nostalgia and commercial culture in the postmodern public sphere
85
Rituals of consumption
111
Creating ignorance and memorizing facts how Buffaloes understood politics
131
Strenuous disengagement and cynical chic solidarity
154
Personal passion and dry facts in the public sphere two sides of the same coin
188
Newspapers in the cycle of political evaporation
210
The evaporation of politics in the US public sphere
230
Class in the public sphere
264
Method
269
Notes
280
References
304
Index
320

Activists carving out a place in the public sphere for discussion
165

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