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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784924803321

Titolo

Rethinking the public : innovations in research, theory and politics / / edited by Nick Mahony, Janet Newman and Clive Barnett [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bristol : , : Policy, , 2010

ISBN

1-4473-0327-X

1-282-70621-7

9786612706219

1-84742-417-1

Descrizione fisica

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

Disciplina

351

Soggetti

Public administration

Social policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

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

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.