This book rethinks the public, public communication and public action in a globalising and mediated world. It develops novel theoretical perspectives for investigating the formation of publics, focusing on four overlapping processes: claiming publics; personalising publics; mediating publics; and becoming public. Using fascinating case studies, Rethinking the public 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.

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Publisher

Policy Press

Year

2010

ISBN

9781847424174

Topic

Política y relaciones internacionales

Subtopic

Política pública

RETHINKING THE PUBLIC
Contents
Notes on contributors
Introduction: rethinking the public
Mediating the publics of public participation experiments
Going public? Articulations of the personal and political on Mumsnet.com
Digitising and visualising: old media, new media and the pursuit of emerging urban publics
Mediating publics in colonial Delhi
Public and private on the housing estate: small community groups, activism and local officials
Whose education? Disentangling publics, persons and citizens
Fishing for the public interest: making and representing publics in North Sea fisheries governance reforms
De-naming the beast: the Global Call to Action against Poverty and its multiple forms of publicness
Paradoxical publicness: becoming imperceptible with the Brazilian lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender movement
Conclusion: emergent publics
Index