Rethinking the public Innovations in research, theory and politics
Mahony, Nick.
Newman, Janet,1945-
Barnett, Clive.
This book rethinks the public, public communication and public action in a globalising and mediated 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 on which other researchers can draw and foregrounding the need to interrogate the boundaries between theory, research and politics.
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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
This book rethinks the public, public communication and public action in a globalising and mediated 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 on which other researchers can draw and foregrounding the need to interrogate the boundaries between theory, research and politics.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.