Public Space Democracy: Performative, Visual and Normative Dimensions of Politics in a Global Age

This volume explores the emergence of public protest movements over the last decade, examining their contribution to the globalization of civil society. It focuses on public space as a site of social mixity and opens up a new field for the study of politics and cultural controversies.

Format: Hardback
Length: 310 pages
Publication date: 31 March 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This comprehensive volume explores the rise of public protest movements across the globe in the past decade, delving into the question of whether these movements play a role in the globalization of civil society. Through a diverse range of studies, organized around themes such as public agency, public norms, public memory, and public art, the book examines the tendency of political contests to transcend national boundaries and forge transnational connections. Moving beyond the frameworks of social movement perspectives, it centers on public space as a site of social mixity, offering a fresh avenue for the study of politics and cultural controversies. An in-depth analysis of the paradigmatic shift in the way society is constructed and politics is conducted, this study of the new enactment of citizenship in public space will captivate scholars of sociology, anthropology, geography, and politics with interests in protest movements, contentious politics, citizenship, and the public sphere, as well as globalization.

Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032045535