An edition of Conserving the American dream
(2012)
Conserving the American dream
faith and politics in the U.S. heartland
by Nilsson, Erik (Anthropologist)
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Conserving the American dream: faith and politics in the U.S. heartland
2012, Stockholm University
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Table of Contents
Conservatism in America.
Between oxymoron and truism;
The liberal consensus and "Liberal conservatism";
Conservatism as an ongoing pattern;
Hierarchy and "Democratic feudalism" ;
The new right : five trajectories;
Burke in America;
The "Southern strategy" and beyond;
The Neocons;
The new Christian right;
Working-class conservatism ;
Concluding remarks --
Doing Democracy.
Among the experts;
The ORP candidate training seminar;
"Voter chimpology" ;
Mapping democracy;
Avoidance;
Geography;
Representation ;
Paradoxes of democracy;
Wollheim's paradox;
Postponed compromises --
"Liberals hate it!".
The liberal;
The culture war thesis and its critics;
Polarization as a project;
Reproduction, formation ;
Political becoming;
Narrative work;
Politics in a contrarian mode ;
Concluding remarks --
Political attachments.
War;
Supporting the troops;
Media slant and counter-slant;
"War is nasty business-get over it";
To believe in a "Scary, scary cowboy" ;
Market;
Clinging to myth;
The preferred path to socialism;
Necessary illusions ;
God;
Frank's wager;
Narrating transformation;
The problem of certainty;
Faith in a secular age;
Trust heuristics;
Concluding remarks : coexistence --
Conclusion : to believe (in something).
Being opinionated ;
The unconditionality of belief ;
Politics, fidelity, truth ;
Fidelity as an anthropological problem ;
Genuine problems and conversational analytics ---- References-- Index.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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