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- Condition
- Pages
- 168
- Publication Date
- 2011-05-01
- Book Title
- Devolution and the Scottish Conservatives: Banal Activism, Electi
- ISBN
- 9780719079696
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Manchester University Press
ISBN-10
0719079691
ISBN-13
9780719079696
eBay Product ID (ePID)
99479441
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
168 Pages
Publication Name
Devolution and the Scottish Conservatives : Banal Activism, Electioneering and the Politics of Irrelevance
Language
English
Subject
Europe / Great Britain / Scotland, History & Theory, World / European, General, Anthropology / General, Political Process / Political Parties
Publication Year
2011
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Political Science, Social Science, History
Series
New Ethnographies Ser.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.3 in
Item Weight
0 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
College Audience
Reviews
". . . Smith's work demonstrates the continued importance of social class in Scottish politics." - Peter Lynch, University of Stirling, European Association of Social Anthropologists, 2012, This excellent book will be of significance for students of citizenship, nationhood and how constructed identities sit alongside the political processes of parties and activists., ... Smith's work demonstrates the continued importance of social class in Scottish politics.This excellent book will be of significance for students of citizenship, nationhood and how constructed identities sit alongside the political processes of parties and activists., ... Smith's work demonstrates the continued importance of social class in Scottish politics. This excellent book will be of significance for students of citizenship, nationhood and how constructed identities sit alongside the political processes of parties and activists.
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
324.241104
Table Of Content
1. Banal activism 2. A Tory Free Scotland 3. Dispelling Doonhamers: naming and the numbers game 4. Making (a) Difference: building the political machine 5. The Politics of Irrelevance 6.Disaggregating the Secret Ballot: electioneering and the politics of self-knowledge 7. Counting on Failure: Polling Day and its aftermath 8. Return of the lesser-spotted Tory
Synopsis
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., 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. -- ., A unique ethnographic study of Party political activismExploring 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.
LC Classification Number
JN1228
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