Disavowing Politics: Civic Engagement in an Era of Political Skepticism
Disavowing Politics: Civic Engagement in an Era of Political Skepticism
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DOI：
10.1086/674006
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发表时间：
2013-09-01
影响因子：
4.4
通讯作者：
Baiocchi, Gianpaolo
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作者：
Bennett, Elizabeth A.;Cordner, Alissa;Baiocchi, Gianpaolo
今天，美国人既对政治生活持怀疑态度，又参与政治生活。普遍的犬儒主义如何影响公民参与文化？对民主有什么影响？”本研究综合了为期一年的集体民族志的七个公民团体和理论工作的边界，模糊性和角色距离的数据。作者发现，怀疑主义产生了对政治的否定，这是一种文化习语，允许人们创造性地构建他们想象中的适当参与形式。否认产生禁忌，作者展示了对冲突和特殊利益的蔑视如何挑战围绕不平等的行动主义。在一个政治怀疑论的时代，政治否认既促进又限制了公民参与。
Today, Americans are simultaneously skeptical of and engaged with political life. How does widespread cynicism affect the culture of civic participation?? What are the implications for democracy?? This study synthesizes data from a one-year collective ethnography of seven civic groups and theoretical work on boundary making, ambiguity, and role distancing. The authors find skepticism generates disavowal of the political, a cultural idiom that allows people to creatively constitute what they imagine to be appropriate forms of engagement. Disavowal generates taboos, and the authors show how disdain for conflict and special interests challenges activism around inequality. Political disavowal both facilitates and constrains civic engagement in an era of political skepticism.