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Capturing the Mood of Democracy Stephen Coleman

Capturing the Mood of Democracy By Stephen Coleman

Capturing the Mood of Democracy by Stephen Coleman


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This book is about what it means to speak of a political mood.

Capturing the Mood of Democracy Summary

Capturing the Mood of Democracy: The British General Election 2019 by Stephen Coleman

This book is about what it means to speak of a political mood. Can the electorate be in a mood? How do they express it? How can moods be captured in a meaningful way? This book attempts to answer those questions by looking at one city during the December 2019 British general election. This is not a book about campaign strategies, target voters, turnouts and poll swings. It is about how people feel. The research approach is ethnographic. The telling of the story is lyrical. It may not be hard political science but it contributes significantly to an understanding of the health of contemporary democracy. Focusing upon the ways that voters and non-voters perform their enthusiasm or indifference, the stories that they tell, and photographic images of Bradford in what is supposed to be a vital democratic moment, this book invites readers to engage with the affective texture of an election.

About Stephen Coleman

Stephen Coleman is Professor of Political Communication in the School of Media and Communication, University of Leeds, UK. He is the author of How People Talk About Politics Brexit and After (2020).

Jim Brogden is Lecturer in Visual Culture, and Programme Leader of the MA in Film, Photography, and Media in the School of Media and Communication, University of Leeds, UK. He is the author of Photography and the Non-Place: The Cultural Erasure of the City (2019).


Table of Contents

1. An Election Comes to Town.- 2. Looking for Democracy.- 3. Contesting Narratives - How Stories Fill Holes.- 4. The Poetics of a Real-Time Election.- 5. How to Capture a Political Mood.

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NPB9783030531379
9783030531379
3030531376
Capturing the Mood of Democracy: The British General Election 2019 by Stephen Coleman
New
Hardback
Springer Nature Switzerland AG
2020-11-25
129
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