Re-thinking Contemporary Political Behaviour: The Difference that Agency Makes

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Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Table of Contents List of illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Part I 1 Political participation: the debate so far Introduction What’s changed? The decline thesis Explaining decline Putting the politics into political participation What’s new? Duty norms and engagement norms Collective and connective action Henrik Bang: the rise of the everyday maker Introducing the everyday maker Conclusion Notes Bibliography 2 Agency and political participation Introduction Chapter outline Conceptions of agency in the political participation literature Hay: the distinction between social and political action Stoker and rational choice theory Norris: critical citizens Agency and structure A rejection of structure and agency as a dualism: towards a dialectic Margaret Archer on agency Archer on reflexivity Giddens: agency or intentionality? Questioning the dominance of rational choice theory What is structure? Lopez and Scott’s typology of structure Giddens’ conception of structure as duality of structure Hay’s conception of agency/structure Conclusion Notes Bibliography 3 Agency: the neglect of the unconscious Chapter outline History of the unconscious Bourdieu’s theory of practice and fields Habitus The unconscious habitus Relationship between consciousness and the unconscious in habitus Reflexivity in habitus So what? The difference that the unconscious makes Conclusion Notes Bibliography 4 Talking heads? The internal political conversation Introduction Political conversations: internal and external Archer mark I: the morphogenetic approach Margaret Archer: the morphogenetic approach Archer’s conception of agency: reflexivity and the unconscious Why does social structure matter? Archer mark II: the internal conversation Internal monologue, conversation or introspection? Re-configuringthe inner conversation Archer: the different types of reflexivity Re-conceptualising the internal conversation: habitus, the unconscious and fields Towards a more in-depth notion of political behaviour Conclusion Notes Bibliography Part II 5 Exploring internal political conversations Introduction What is the internal conversation? Bourdieu: habitus, unconscious, emotions, fields Devising a methodology for accessing the internal conversation Discussion of interviews: the internal political conversation Identifying the internal conversation and stepping back from thehabitus Alex Sue Nina Simon Sarah Conclusion Notes Bibliography 6 Rioting: criminal, political or post-political act? Introduction Defining the political Rioting: criminal, political or post-political act? The search for political motivations and grievances Defining motivations and grievances A theoretical framework for theorising rioters Habitus The unconscious habitus The impact of the rioter’s past on the present during the riot Rioting as an attempt at changing one’s habitus The difficulty of change Conclusion Notes Bibliography Conclusion: contemporary political behaviour – looking forward Mapping the political The difference that agency makes Agents of change? Bibliography Index