Digesting the Public Sphere

Sarah Marusek

ISBN 10: 113857838X / ISBN 13: 9781138578388

Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd Dez 2017, 2017

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Digesting the Public Sphere
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Dez 2017
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 113857838X
• ISBN 13: 9781138578388
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 252W x 181H x 15D millimeters 252 millimeters width by 181 millimeters height by 15 millimeters depth
• Weight: 384 grams

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Synopsis

In the routine spectrum of our lives, we inhabit the public sphere. Whether in the street, the shopping center, or on the bus, we engage with the empowered, the disempowered, the omitted, and the powerful. Within the public sphere, the notion of public involves a complexity of approaches to aspects of everyday practices of power, performance, and place. Through these approaches, that which is public can be visualized, experienced, and contested in the construction, ceremony, and design of buildings, institutions, and daily activities. In a variety of ways, the conceptualization and contextualization of the public contributes to identity formations, narratives of community, and manifestations of the political that materially and discursively transpire within the public sphere in the perceptions of inequality, metaphors for knowledge, and critiques of consciousness. For this volume focused on interpretive methods and methodologies that address the concept of public, we present a lively engagement with methodological insight into the political digestion of the public sphere. We delve into models of and approaches to conducting research, the analysis of findings, and the reaffirmation of enhanced techniques of related inquiry in public spaces. We seek to explore the following questions: What is the public? How do we visualize/understand/experience the public? What are the ways in which these insights connect to articulations of citizenship and democracy? How is the public implicated in the political? The chapters originally published as a special issue in Space and Polity.

About the Author

Sarah Marusek is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Hawai‘i Hilo, USA. Her research and teaching interests in jurisprudence include legal geography, legal semiotics, and constitutive legal theory.