Partisan Publics

Communication and Contention across Brazilian Youth Activist Networks

AvAnn Mische

Häftad, Engelska, 2009

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Beskrivning

During the 1980s and 1990s, Brazil struggled to rebuild its democracy after twenty years of military dictatorship, experiencing financial crises, corruption scandals, political protest, and intense electoral contention. In the midst of this turmoil, Ann Mische argues in this remarkable book, youth activists of various stripes played a vital and unrecognized role, contributing new forms of political talk and action to Brazil's emerging democracy. Drawing upon extensive and rich ethnography as well as formal network analysis, Mische tracks the lives of young activists through intersecting political networks, including student movements, church-based activism, political parties, nongovernmental organizations, and business and professional organizations. She probes the problems and possibilities they encountered in combining partisan activism with other kinds of civic involvement. In documenting activists' struggles to develop cross-partisan publics of various kinds, Mische explores the distinct styles of communication and leadership that emerged across organizations and among individuals.Drawing on the ideas of Habermas, Gramsci, Dewey, and Machiavelli, Partisan Publics highlights political communication styles and the forms of mediation and leadership they give rise to--for democratic politics in Brazil and elsewhere. Insightful in its discussion of culture, methodology, and theory, Partisan Publics argues that partisanship can play a significant role in civic life, helping to build relations and institutions in an emerging democracy.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2009-07-26
Mått:152 x 229 x 27 mm
Vikt:680 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology
Antal sidor:456
Förlag:Princeton University Press
ISBN:9780691141046
Utmärkelser:Commended for American Sociological Association - Political Sociology: Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship 2009

Utforska kategorier

Antropologi inom Samhälle och politik
Politisk aktivism inom Samhälle och politik
Statsskick: demokrati inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Ann Mische is associate professor of sociology at Rutgers University. Her work examines the relationship between culture, politics, and social interaction in complex social networks.

Recensioner i media

Honorable Mention for the 2009 Book Award, Section on Political Sociology, American Sociological Association "Partisan Publics is a remarkable book. It will make a mark in sociology, political science, and Latin American studies. It is smartly written, subtle, and packs an important theoretical punch."--Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Mobilization "I found Mische's qualitative analyses particularly enlightening and refreshing... This book is a valuable addition to the social movements literature, as well as several allied literatures."--D. B. Tindall, Canadian Journal of Sociology "Partisan Publics is based on a truly multimethod research design... By threading narratives of individual activists through the book, Mische effectively uses the individual biographies to illuminate the overall movement and national history... There is much to be gained by comparing Mische's findings to classical classical research in the social movement's literature."--Catherine Corrigall-Brown, Contemporary Sociology

Innehållsförteckning

List of Figures ix List of Tables xi Abbreviations xiii Acknowledgments xix Prologue: Exploring Brazilian Youth Activism 1 Part One: Institutional Intersections 15 Chapter 1: Communication and Mediation in Contentious Publics 17 Chapter 2: Leadership in the Intersections 35 Chapter 3: Activist Cohorts and Trajectories, 1977 to 1996 56 Chapter 4: Partisan Bridging in Early Student and Catholic Activism 97 Chapter 5: Civic Mediation in the 1992 Impeachment Movement 134 Part Two: Contentious Communication 181 Chapter 6: Modes of Communication in Institutionalized Publics 183 Chapter 7: Defensive Publics in University Settings 213 Chapter 8: Challenger Publics and Stylistic Innovation 239 Chapter 9: Partisan Dramaturgy and the Breakdown of Publics 287 Chapter 10: Conclusion: Parties and Publics 338 Methodological Appendix 361 Notes 367 References 391 Index 415