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

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Includes bibliographical references and 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 the streets -- Strategy and tactics for the anti-cuts movement.

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.

In what ways is the meaning and practice of politics changing? Why might so many people feel dissatisfied and disaffected with electoral politics? What approaches do political activists use to raise issues and mobilise people for action? What role does the internet and social media play in contemporary citizenship and activism? This book brings together academics from a range of disciplines with political activists and campaigners to explore the meaning of politics and citizenship in contemporary society and the current forms of political (dis)engagement. It provides a rare dialogue between analysts and activists which will be especially valuable to academics and students across the social sciences, in particular sociology and political science.

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