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This book brings together the established field of political
communication and the emerging field of critical event studies to
develop new questions and approaches. Using this combined
framework, it reflects upon how we should understand the expression
of democratic participation in mainstream mass media during the
2015 UK General Election and the 2016 referendum on Britain's
membership of the EU. Are we now living in an era where democratic
participation is much more concerned with spectacle rather than
substantive debate? The book addresses this conceptual journey and
reflects on differing models of democratic participation, before
applying that framework to the two identified case studies.
Finally, the authors consider what it means to be living in a
period of democratic spectacle, where political events have become
evental politics. The book will be of use to students and scholars
across the fields of political science and culture and media
studies, as well as wide readers interested in the current issues
facing British politics.
This book brings together chapters that address questions of
leisure, activism, and the animation of urban environments. The
authors share research that explores the meaning and making of
activist practices, events of dissent, and the arts in everyday
life. Situated in a growing body of activist scholarship and social
justice research, within the field of leisure studies, the
contributions spotlight understandings and disruptions of public
spaces in cities. These range from overtly political practices such
as protest marches to recreational practices such as skateboarding
and bicycling that remake cities through their contestations of
space. Across the collection the chapters raise broader questions
of civil society, whether it is research on youth activism,
historical uses of public spaces by rightwing or racist groups, or
interrogating the absence of leisure and closure of public spaces
for people experiencing homelessness. Some chapters explore events,
such as festivals as sites of resistance and social change. In
others, grassroots neighbourhood activism through arts is
centralised, or mega-events are framed through protest campaigns
against bids to host the Summer Olympic Games. A central thread
running through the chapters is the question of whose voices count
and whose remain unheard in events of dissent in the city. The
chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue
of Leisure Studies.
This book brings together the established field of political
communication and the emerging field of critical event studies to
develop new questions and approaches. Using this combined
framework, it reflects upon how we should understand the expression
of democratic participation in mainstream mass media during the
2015 UK General Election and the 2016 referendum on Britain's
membership of the EU. Are we now living in an era where democratic
participation is much more concerned with spectacle rather than
substantive debate? The book addresses this conceptual journey and
reflects on differing models of democratic participation, before
applying that framework to the two identified case studies.
Finally, the authors consider what it means to be living in a
period of democratic spectacle, where political events have become
evental politics. The book will be of use to students and scholars
across the fields of political science and culture and media
studies, as well as wide readers interested in the current issues
facing British politics.
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