Rethinking the Public: Innovations in Research, Theory and Politics - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1847424163 ISBN 13: 9781847424167

Publisher: Policy Press, 2010

Synopsis

This book rethinks the public, public communication and public action in a globalising and mediated world. Web-based interactions, community empowerment initiatives, participation experiments, transnational struggles and new ways of understanding and occupying public space offer a range of promising speculations about the renewal of publics and publicness. Rethinking the public develops novel theoretical perspectives for investigating the formation of publics, focusing on four overlapping processes: claiming publics; personalizing publics; mediating publics; and, becoming public. These four themes are key to rethinking how publics are brought into being and how to develop research agendas into their formation. Using fascinating case studies, the book offers a rich set of methodological resources on which other researchers can draw and foregrounds the need to interrogate the boundaries between theory, research and politics. It is ideal reading for higher level undergraduate and masters programmes in politics, geography, public policy, sociology, social policy, public administration and cultural studies, and will also be relevant to academics across a similar range of disciplines as well as students on research masters and other methods courses.

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About the Author

Nick Mahony is an ESRC Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance at The Open University. Janet Newman is a Professor of Social Policy and Director of the Publics Research Programme within the Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance at the Open University. Clive Barnett is Reader in Human Geography at The Open University, Milton Keynes.

Edition details

• Publisher: Policy Press
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1847424163
• ISBN 13: 9781847424167
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 188
• Editor: Nick Mahony, Janet Newman, Clive Barnett