Avoiding politics: how Americans produce apathy in everyday life
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Abstract
Acknowledgements 1. The mysterious shrinking circle of concern 2. Volunteers trying to make sense of the world 3. 'Close to home' and 'for the children': trying really hard not to care 4. Humour, nostalgia and commercial culture in the postmodern public sphere 5. Creating ignorance and memorizing facts: how Buffaloes understood politics 6. Strenuous disengagement and cynical chic solidarity 7. Activists carving out a place in the public sphere for discussion 8. Newspapers in the cycle of political evaporation 9. The evaporation of politics in the US public sphere Appendices Notes References Index.