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Within media research and cultural studies, the mediation of politicians and the play-off between versions of high and low politics are attracting increasing interest. Media and the Restyling of Politics brings together the work of leading academics in media and cultural studies to pursue an agenda of research, analysis and debate about the changing nature of political culture and its mediation. The contributors question the ways in which emerging forms of political style relate not only to new conventions of celebrity and publicity but to ideas about representation, citizenship and the democratic process. Topics covered include: celebrity politicians, the marketing of politics, identity and popular culture.
Marked Bodies: Environmental Activism and Political Semiotics1
Marked Bodies: Environmental Activism and Political Semiotics1
I want to start this chapter by considering two political gestures from 1990s Britain, gestures captured in emblematic photographs taken during that decade's many direct-action protests against the British road-building programme. The wave of these protests started at Twyford Down in 1992, but over the next few years similar protests took place at dozens of rural and also some urban sites across the country. Protesters at these events were typically drawn from two distinct social groupings – local residents, often quite ‘establishment’ in background and outlook, and young, unemployed and geographically mobile ‘eco-warriors’, living in on-site protest camps (Doherty, 1996; McKay, 1996; Seel, 1996). These camps were established at a chosen site ...
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