Flinders, M. orcid.org/0000-0003-3585-9010 and Wood, M. orcid.org/0000-0002-0433-2972 (2018) Nexus politics : conceptualizing everyday political engagement. Democratic Theory, 5 (2). pp. 56-81. ISSN 2332-8894
Abstract
Existing research on alternative forms of political participation does not adequately account for why those forms of participation at an “everyday” level should be defined as political. In this article we aim to contribute new conceptual and theoretical depth to this research agenda by drawing on sociological theory to posit a framework for determining whether nontraditional forms of political engagement can be defined as genuinely distinctive from traditional participation. Existing “everyday politics” frameworks are analytically underdeveloped, and the article argues instead for drawing upon Michel Maffesoli’s theory of “neo-tribal” politics. Applying Maffesoli’s insights, we provide two questions for operationally defining “everyday” political participation, as expressing autonomy from formal political institutions, and building new political organizations from the bottom up. This creates a substantive research agenda of not only operationally defining political participation, but examining how traditional governmental institutions and social movements respond to a growth in everyday political participation: nexus politics.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2018 Berghahn Books. This is an author produced version of a paper subsequently published in Democratic Theory. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. Article available under the terms of the CC-BY-NC-ND licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). |
Keywords: | everyday politics; Michel Maffesoli; nexus; political engagement; political sociology |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Politics and International Relations (Sheffield) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number Arts and Humanities Research Council AH/L014696/1 Economic and Social Research Council ES/N006216/1; ES/N00874X/1 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 30 Nov 2020 08:44 |
Last Modified: | 01 Dec 2020 01:40 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Berghahn Journals |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.3167/dt.2018.050205 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:168523 |