Cultivating Political and Public Identity - Why Plumage Matters

This bold and original study looks at the performance of identity in the public sphere, using the concept of 'plumage' to capture the countless elements that go together to make up a shared identity.

List of contents

1 Introduction
2 Plumage
3 Cultivating identity
4 Top people are different: association and distinction in politics and religion
5 Caps of liberty: the oddity of democracy
6 Reformations, revolutions, continuity, and counter-reformations
7 The plumage of Britannia
8 Conclusion
Index

About the author

Rodney Barker is Emeritus Professor of Government at LSE and Emeritus Professor of Rhetoric at Gresham College

Summary

This bold and original study looks at the performance of identity in the public sphere, using the concept of 'plumage' to capture the countless elements that go together to make up a shared identity. -- .

Product details

• Authors: Rodney Barker, Barker Rodney
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2017
• EAN: 9781526114594
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-1459-4
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Interior design, design; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Affairs & Administration, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Political science & theory, Social and cultural anthropology, History of fashion, Political science and theory, Cultural studies: dress and society