Devolution and the Scottish Conservatives: Banal activism, electioneering and the politics of irrelevance (New Ethnographies) - Tapa blanda

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Smith, Alexander Captain; Smith, Alexander

 
9780719095566: Devolution and the Scottish Conservatives: Banal activism, electioneering and the politics of irrelevance (New Ethnographies)
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ISBN 10: 0719095565 ISBN 13: 9780719095566
Editorial: Manchester University Press, 2014

Sinopsis

This highly readable book is a unique, ethnographic study of devolution and Scottish politics as well as Party political activism more generally.

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Alexander Smith is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Huddersfield

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This highly readable book is a unique, ethnographic study of devolution and Scottish politics as well as Party political activism more generally. It explores how Conservative Party activists who had opposed devolution and the movement for a Scottish Parliament during the 1990s attempted to mobilise politically following their annihilation at the 1997 General Election. It draws on fieldwork conducted in Dumfries and Galloway - a former stronghold for the Scottish Tories - to describe how senior Conservatives worked from the assumption that they had endured their own ‘crisis’ in representation. The material consequences of this crisis included losses of financial and other resources, legitimacy and local knowledge for the Scottish Conservatives.

This book ethnographically describes the processes, practices and relationships that Tory Party activists sought to enact during the 2003 Scottish and local Government elections. Its central argument is that, having asserted that the difficulties they faced constituted problems of knowledge, Conservative activists cast to the geographical and institutional margins of Scotland became ‘banal’ activists. Believing themselves to be lacking in the data and information necessary for successful mobilisation during Parliamentary elections, local Tory Party strategists attempted to address their knowledge ‘crisis’ by burying themselves in paperwork and petty bureaucracy. Such practices have often escaped scholarly attention because they appear everyday and mundane and are therefore less noticeable.

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This highly readable book is a unique, ethnographic study of devolution and Scottish politics as well as Party political activism more generally. It explores how Conservative Party activists who had opposed devolution and the movement for a Scottish Parliament during the 1990s attempted to mobilise politically following their annihilation at the 1997 General Election. It draws on fieldwork conducted in Dumfries and Galloway - a former stronghold for the Scottish Tories - to describe how senior Conservatives worked from the assumption that they had endured their own crisis in representation. The material consequences of this crisis included losses of financial and other resources, legitimacy and local knowledge for the Scottish Conservatives. This book ethnographically describes the processes, practices and relationships that Tory Party activists sought to enact during the 2003 Scottish and local Government elections. Its central argument is that, having asserted that the difficulties they faced constituted problems of knowledge, Conservative activists cast to the geographical and institutional margins of Scotland became banal activists. Believing themselves to be lacking in the data and information necessary for successful mobilisation during Parliamentary elections, local Tory Party strategists attempted to address their knowledge crisis by burying themselves in paperwork and petty bureaucracy. Such practices have often escaped scholarly attention because they appear everyday and mundane and are therefore less noticeable.

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Editorial
Manchester University Press
Año de publicación
2014
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0719095565
ISBN 13 
9780719095566
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Número de páginas
166
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9780719079696: Devolution and the Scottish Conservatives: Banal Activism, Electioneering and the Politics of Irrelevance (New Ethnographies)

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ISBN 10:  0719079691 ISBN 13:  9780719079696
Editorial: Manchester University Press, 2011
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