Contested Transparencies, Social Movements And The Public Sphere: Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives

Edited By Stefan Berger & Dimitrij Owetschkin

ISBN 10: 3030239489 / ISBN 13: 9783030239480

Published by Palgrave Macmillan, Switzerland, 2019

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Contested Transparencies, Social Movements And The Public Sphere: Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, Switzerland
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3030239489
• ISBN 13: 9783030239480
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

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Synopsis

This edited collection examines the multi-faceted phenomenon of transparency, especially in its relation to social movements, from a range of multi-disciplinary viewpoints. Over the past few decades, transparency has become an omnipresent catch phrase in public and scientific debates. The volume tracks developments of ideas and practices of transparency from the eighteenth century to the current day, as well as their semantic, cultural and social preconditions. It connects analyses of the ideological implications of transparency concepts and transparency claims with their impact on the public sphere in general and on social movements in particular. In doing so, the book contributes to a better understanding of social conflicts and power relations in modern societies. The chapters are organized into four parts, covering the concept and ideology of transparency, historical and recent developments of the public sphere and media, the role of the state as an agent of surveillance, and conflicts over transparency and participation connected to social movements.

About the Author

Stefan Berger is Professor of Social History and Director of the Institute for Social Movements at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. He is also Executive Chair of the Foundation History of the Ruhr and an Honorary Professor at Cardiff University, UK.

Dimitrij Owetschkin is Permanent Research Fellow at the Institute for Social Movements at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. His recent publications cover the history of trade unions and social movements, as well as religious and church history after the Second World War.