Rethinking the Public: Innovations in Research, Theory and Politics

Scholars in a number of social sciences at The Open University took part in the Publics Research Programme, where for over two years they sought a collective intervention into contemporary theorizations of publics and publicness. The 11 studies that emerge into print here consider such topics as mediating the publics of public participation experiments; digitizing and visualizing: old media, new media, and the pursuit of emerging urban publics; mediating publics in colonial Delhi; fishing for the public interest: making and representing publics in North Sea fisheries governance reforms; and paradoxical publicness: becoming imperceptible with the Brazilian lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender movement. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation c2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)