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The 2016 U.S. presidential election revealed a nation deeply
divided and in flux. This volume provides urgently needed insights
into American politics and culture during this period of
uncertainty. The contributions answer the election's key mysteries,
such as how contemporary Christian evangelicals identified in the
unrepentant candidate Trump a hero to their cause, and how working
class and economically struggling Americans saw in the rich and
ostentatious candidate a champion of their plight. The chapters
explain how irrationality is creeping into political participation,
and demonstrate how media developments enabled a phenomenon like
"fake news" to influence the election. At this polarized and
contentious moment, this volume satisfies the urgent need for works
that carefully analyze the forces and tensions tearing at the
American social fabric. Simultaneously intellectual and accessible,
this volume is designed to illuminate the 2016 U.S. presidential
election and its aftermath for academics and students of politics
alike.
The Performative Presidency brings together literatures describing
presidential leadership strategies, public understandings of
citizenship, and news production and media technologies between the
presidencies of Theodore Roosevelt and Bill Clinton, and details
how the relations between these spheres have changed over time.
Jason L. Mast demonstrates how interactions between leaders,
publics, and media are organized in a theatrical way, and argues
that mass mediated plot formation and character development play an
increasing role in structuring the political arena. He shows
politics as a process of ongoing performances staged by motivated
political actors, mediated by critics, and interpreted by
audiences, in the context of a deeply rooted, widely shared system
of collective representations. The interdisciplinary framework of
this book brings together a semiotic theory of culture with
concepts from the burgeoning field of performance studies.
Jeffrey C. Alexander brings together new and leading contributors
to make a powerful and coherently argued case for a new direction
in cultural sociology, one that focuses on the intersection between
performance, ritual and social action. Performance has always been
used by sociologists to understand the social world but this volume
offers the first systematic analytical framework based on the
performance metaphor to explain large-scale social and cultural
processes. From September 11, to the Clinton/Lewinsky affair, to
the role of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission,
Social Performance draws on recent work in performative theory in
the humanities and in cultural studies to offer a novel approach to
the sociology of culture. Inspired by the theories of Austin,
Derrida, Durkheim, Goffman, and Turner, this is a path-breaking
volume that makes a major contribution to the field. It will appeal
to scholars and students alike.
Jeffrey C. Alexander brings together new and leading contributors
to make a powerful and coherently argued case for a new direction
in cultural sociology, one that focuses on the intersection between
performance, ritual and social action. Performance has always been
used by sociologists to understand the social world but this volume
offers the first systematic analytical framework based on the
performance metaphor to explain large-scale social and cultural
processes. From September 11, to the Clinton/Lewinsky affair, to
the role of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission,
Social Performance draws on recent work in performative theory in
the humanities and in cultural studies to offer a novel approach to
the sociology of culture. Inspired by the theories of Austin,
Derrida, Durkheim, Goffman, and Turner, this is a path-breaking
volume that makes a major contribution to the field. It will appeal
to scholars and students alike.
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