Capturing the Mood of Democracy: The British General Election 2019 9783030531379, 9783030531386

Table of contents :
Preface
Contents
List of Figures
Chapter 1: An Election Comes to Town
A ‘Grim but Not Mean’ Place1
Caught in a Long Moment
Experiencing an Election from the Inside and Outside
References
Chapter 2: Looking for Democracy
Bradford, West Yorkshire, England
On Not Talking About Politics
On Lost Connections
In a Mood
On Getting Ready for the Future
On Voting as Affective Solidarity
Reference
Chapter 3: Contesting Narratives: How Stories Fill Holes
‘A Barometer to How I’m Feeling’
‘They’re Playing a Game, Aren’t They?’
‘Hanging On by My Fingernails’
‘I Don’t Really Know Much What’s Going On’
Mood-Stories as Hermeneutic Clues
References
Chapter 4: The Poetics of a Real-Time Election
References
Chapter 5: How to Capture a Political Mood
Riding Waves, Politically
Ways of Witnessing an Election
Performing an Election
Seeing an Election
Writing an Election
The Mood of the 2019 Election in Bradford
Why Study Political Moods?
Critical Reflections on the Bradford Photographs
References
Index

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