Governance, consumers and citizens : agency and resistance in contemporary politics / edited by Mark Bevir and Frank Trentmann.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bevir, Mark.

Trentmann, Frank.

Series:

Consumption and public life

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public administration.

Citizenship.

Consumption (Economics).

Physical Description:

x, 286 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Plagrave Macmillan, [2007]

Summary:

This is the first book to bring together a focus on governance with that on cultures of consumption. It asks about the changing place of the consumer as citizen in recent trends in governance, about the tensions between competing ideas and practices of consumerism, and about the active role of consumers in the construction of governance. The book seeks to expand the debate about consumers and governance and to raise the possibility of new conceptions and policy agendas.

Contents:

Introduction: consumption and citizenship in the new governance / Mark Bevir and Frank Trentmann

Interpreting governance

The construction of governance / Mark Bevir

Governance as cultural practice: texts, talk and the struggle for meaning / Janet Newman

Consuming social science / Claire Donovan

Contested consumers

"It's not like shopping": citizens, consumers and the reform of public services / John Clarke

The governance of health policy in the United Kingdom / Ian Greener, Martin Powell, Nick Mills and Shane Doheny

Regulating markets in the interest of consumers? On the changing regime of governance in the financial service and communications sectors / Peter Lunt and Sonia Livingstone

New perspectives

After modernism: local reasoning, consumption, and governance / Mark Bevir and Frank Trentmann

Critical theory in a swing: political consumerism between politics and policy / Henrik P. Bang

Problematizing choice: responsible consumers and sceptical citizens / Alice Malpass, Clive Barnett, Nick Clarke and Paul Cloke

Conclusion

Reflections on governance from an international perspective / Bronwen Morgan.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0230517285

9780230517288

OCLC:

144547839

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