Negotiating civic life : literature, film, politics /
"Focused both thematically and methodologically on diverse aspects of civic life, this book elucidates the mentalities and forces involved in the way individuals and collectives negotiate ways of being in common. The chapters feature critical interventions into the civic lives of grief, of thin...
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press Ltd,
[2025]
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Table of Contents:
- List of figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction : exploring civic empathy
- 1. The civic lives of grief
- 2. Civic cleansing : willed amnesia, artistic anamnesis
- 3. Civic automobility : driving white, driving black
- 4. The civic lives of things : hats and gloves
- 5. The civic lives of gender : disruptive and enabling "monstrosities"
- Epilogue
- Index