The Public on the Public: The British Public as Trust, Reflexivity and Political Foreclosure

Westall, C.; Gardiner, M.

In Britain, the resistance to popular determination allowed by the financial construct of the public has been so successful that this term, public, must be re-read as politically paralyzing. The problem, our problem, is the public - which we are so often told will bring us together and provide for us - and it is this we must move beyond.

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Published by: Palgrave Pivot

Publication Date: 2015-01-14

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9781137351333

DOI: 10.1057/9781137351340

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 152