Partisan publics : communication and contention across Brazilian youth activist networks / Ann Mische.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mische, Ann.

Series:

Princeton studies in cultural sociology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Youth--Political activity--Brazil.

Youth.

Youth--Political activity.

Student movements.

Brazil.

Student movements--Brazil.

Political participation--Brazil.

Political participation.

Brazil--Politics and government--1985-2002.

Politics and government.

Physical Description:

xxi, 432 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2008]

Summary:

"Ann Mische's "Partisan Publics" is an intellectually sophisticated study of Brazilian youth politics and the emergence of multiple publics during a time of political transition and turbulence. Her original and innovative analysis of the ways that all politics involve a mix of the civic and the partisan transforms our understanding of these fundamental features of social and political life. Methodologically sophisticated and theoretically bold, Partisan Publics will challenge scholars studying social movements, institutions and networks, and democratic theory."--Robin Wagner-Pacifici, Swarthmore College

Contents:

Prologue: exploring Brazilian youth activism

Institutional intersections

Communication and mediation in contentious publics

Leadership in the intersections

Activist cohorts and trajectories, 1977 to 1996

Partisan bridging in early student and Catholic activism

Civic mediation in the 1992 impeachment movement

Contentious communication

Modes of communication in institutionalized publics

Defensive publics in university settings

Challenger publics and stylistic innovation

Partisan dramaturgy and the breakdown of publics

Conclusion: parties and publics.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [391]-413) and index.

ISBN:

9780691124940

0691124949

OCLC:

85813857