Politics of Meaning/Meaning of Politics

Cultural Sociology of the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

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The 2016 U.S. presidential election revealed a nation deeply divided and in flux. Simultaneously intellectual and accessible, this volume is designed to illuminate the 2016 U.S. presidential election and its aftermath for academics and students of politics alike.

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Utgivningsdatum2018-11-23
Mått148 x 210 x 19 mm
Vikt526 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieCultural Sociology
Antal sidor292
FörlagSpringer International Publishing AG
ISBN9783319959443

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Jason L. Mast is a Research Fellow at the Normative Orders Excellence Cluster at Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, Germany. He is the author of The Performative Presidency: Crisis and Resurrection During the Clinton Years. Jeffrey C. Alexander is Lillian Chavenson Saden Professor of Sociology at Yale University, and a Director of the Center for Cultural Sociology. He is the author of The Performance of Politics: Obama’s Victory and the Democratic Struggle for Power and co-author of Obama Power.

Introduction.- Chapter 1: Politics as a Vacation.- Chapter 2: When Voters Are Voting, What Are They Doing?: Symbolic Selection and the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election.- Chapter 3: Deep Stories, Nostalgia Narratives, and Fake News: Storytelling in the Trump Era.- Chapter 4: Journalism after Trump.- Chapter 5: On the Construction Sites of History: Where Did Donald Trump Come From?.- Chapter 6: Donald’s Dick: A Man Against the Institutions.- Chapter 7: A Period of “wild and fierce fanaticism”: Populism, Theo-Political Militarism, and the Crisis of US Hegemony.- Chapter 8: Raging Against the Enlightenment: Steven Bannon’s Anti-Democratic Ideology.- Chapter 9: The Flight 93-ization of American Politics.- Chapter 10: Why Evangelicals Voted for Trump: A Critical Cultural Sociology.- Chapter 11: Muslims as Outsiders, Enemies, and Others: The 2016 Presidential Election and the Politics of Religious Exclusion.- Chapter 12: Populism’s Efforts to De-legitimize the Vital Center and the Implications for Liberal Democracy.- Chapter 13: The Fragmenting of the Civil Sphere: How Partisan Identity Shapes the Moral Evaluations of Candidates and Epistemology.- Chapter 14: Legitimacy Troubles and the Performance of Power in the 2016 US Presidential Election.- Afterword.