The Making Sense of Politics, Media, and Law: Rhetorical Performance as Invention, Creation, Production

ISBN-13: 9781009336369 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023

Gary Watt

Opis

Employs a new idea of 'making', covering artefaction, crafting, fiction, and fabrication, to make sense of controversies in law, politics, and media, from transgender identity to cancel culture. Brings new perspectives to a range of academic disciplines. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

Spis treści

Part I. The Making Sense: 1. The making sense – introduction; 2. Invention, creation, production; 3. Artefaction – making things; Part II. The Truth Factory: 4. The truth factory – crafting fact and law; 5. Making sex change: legal engendering of trans people; 6. Making faces, performing persons; Part III. The Acting President: 7. The acting president; 8. Political confection – making a meal of it; 9. State building; Part IV. Masses, Media, and Popular Judgment: 10. Co-production and populism; 11. Faking news; 12. Making mistakes – trial by twitter and cancel culture; Index.