Rethinking the public : innovations and research, theory and politics / Nick Mahony ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mahony, Nick.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political participation.

Public administration.

Social policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 179 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Bristol : Policy, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book rethinks the public, public communication and public action in a globalising world. It looks at how publics are brought into being and how to develop research agendas into their formation, offering a rich set of methodological resources and stressing the need to examine the boundaries between theory, research and politics.

Contents:

RETHINKING THE PUBLIC; Contents; Notes on contributors; 1. Introduction: rethinking the public; 2. Mediating the publics of public participation experiments; 3. Going public? Articulations of the personal and political on Mumsnet.com; 4. Digitising and visualising: old media, new media and the pursuit of emerging urban publics; 5. Mediating publics in colonial Delhi; 6. Public and private on the housing estate: small community groups, activism and local officials; 7. Whose education? Disentangling publics, persons and citizens

8. Fishing for the public interest: making and representing publics in North Sea fisheries governance reforms9. De-naming the beast: the Global Call to Action against Poverty and its multiple forms of publicness; 10. Paradoxical publicness: becoming imperceptible with the Brazilian lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender movement; 11. Conclusion: emergent publics; Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 01 Sep 2022).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612706219

9781447303275

144730327X

9781282706217

1282706217

9781847424174

1847424171

OCLC:

663904488