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The Politics of Everyday Life : Making Choices, Changing Lives.
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Melbourne :
Melbourne University Publishing,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro; The Politics of Everyday Life; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 We can't go on like this; Riches and poverty; Power and powerlessness; Male and female; Profits and ethics; Legality and illegality; Human consumption and environmental conservation; Consumption; Procreation; War and peace; 2 Individuals, Choice and Consumer Capitalism; Freedom and self-interest; Choice and constraints; Time; Individualisation, 'flexibility', risk; Choice and consumer capitalism; The Western model; The spread; Imaginative hedonism; Romance and advertising
- Alternative readings and passages of everyday lifeThe bonfire of the vanities; Nature; Shopping: producer and consumer alliances; Difficulties; Conclusion; 3 Families; Home, sweet home; Privacy, everydayness and dreaming; A world apart; Familism; The American model; The effects of television; 'Only connect'; Gender (and other) relations; Sharing; Sharing everything; Conclusion: families and civil society; 4 The Possibilities of Civil Society; Key words; Texture and daily practice; Civil society, dictatorship and democracy in the global South; The enemies of civil society
- Patron-client relationsOverpowerful families; Corporations and media empires; Conclusion: civil society and the state; 5 Making Democracy Work; Some problems in modern democracy; Expansion, crisis and disaffection; Media and the politics of the person; Political parties; Electoral spending; The facilitating mechanisms of a democractic state; The local state and civil society; States and families; Reinventing the public; Deliberative democracy and Porto Alegre; Conclusion; Index