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Governance, Consumers and Citizens

Agency and Resistance in Contemporary Politics

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  • © 2007

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Editors:
  1. Mark Bevir

    1. University of California, Berkeley, USA

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  2. Frank Trentmann

    1. Birkbeck College, University of London, UK

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Part of the book series: Consumption and Public Life (CUCO)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction: Consumption and Cititzenship in the New Governance

    1. Introduction: Consumption and Citizenship in the New Governance

      • Mark Bevir, Frank Trentmann
      Pages 1-22

  3. Interpreting Governance

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 23-23
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    2. The Construction of Governance

      • Mark Bevir
      Pages 25-38

    3. Governance as Cultural Practice: Texts, Talk and the Struggle for Meaning

      • Janet Newman
      Pages 49-68

    4. Consuming Social Science

      • Claire Donovan
      Pages 69-94

  5. New Perspectives

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 163-163
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    2. After Modernism: Local Reasoning, Consumption, and Governance

      • Mark Bevir, Frank Trentmann
      Pages 165-190

    3. Critical Theory in a Swing: Political Consumerism between Politics and Policy

      • Henrik Paul Bang
      Pages 191-230

    4. Problematizing Choice: Responsible Consumers and Sceptical Citizens

      • Alice Malpass, Clive Barnett, Nick Clarke, Paul Cloke
      Pages 231-256

    5. Conclusion: Reflections on Governance from an International Perspective

      • Bronwen Morgan
      Pages 257-278

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 279-286
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About this book

This is the first book to focus on governance and cultures of consumption, expanding the debate and raising new conceptions and policy agendas. It questions the changing place of the consumer as citizen in recent trends in governance, the tensions between competing ideas and practices of consumerism, and the active role of consumers in governance.

Reviews

'Radically pushing forward the debate on consumers and governance, this collection outlines new conceptions and posits new policy agendas. - Journal of Consumer Policy

'This book seems to me full of interesting papers that will challenge academics and postgraduate students interested in public policy and administration. It will, I suspect, be much pored over and the editors and authors are to be congratulated on its production.' - Michael Connolly, Political Studies Review

'...succeeds in revitalizing and enriching the debate on the relationship between consumption and citizenship...an invitation to sociologists to enter the debate and bring their sociological imagination to arrive at a better, more truthful understanding of this very important, complex, ambivalent and paradoxical phenomenon that is governance' - Sociology

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of California, Berkeley, USA

    Mark Bevir

  • Birkbeck College, University of London, UK

    Frank Trentmann

About the editors

HENRIK P. BANG is Senior Lecturer in Comparative Politics, University of Copenhagen, Denmark CLIVE BARNETT is Reader in Human Geography, Open University, UK JOHN CLARKE is Professor of Social Policy, Open University, UK NICK CLARKE is Lecturer in Human Geography, University of Southampton, UK PAUL CLOKE is Professor of Human Geography, University of Bristol, UK SHANE DOHENY is Research Associate, University of Manchester, UK CLAIRE DONOVAN is Research Fellow, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, Australia IAN GREENER is Senior Lecturer in Public Policy and Management, Centre for Public Policy and Management, University of Manchester, UK SONIA LIVINGSTONE is Professor of Social Psychology, Department of Media and Communications, London School of Economics, UK PETER LUNT is Professor of Communications and Media Studies, Brunel University, UK ALICE MALPASS is Research Associate, Primary Health Care, University of Bristol, UK NICK MILLS is Research Associate, University of Manchester, UK BRONWEN MORGAN is Professor of Socio-Legal Studies, School of Law, University of Bristol, UK JANET NEWMAN is Professor of Social Policy, Open University, UK MARTIN POWELL is Professor of Social Policy, University of Stirling, UK

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