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Blairism and the war of persuasion : Labour's passive revolution
- Title
- Blairism and the war of persuasion : Labour's passive revolution / Deborah Lynn Steinberg and Richard Johnson, eds.
- Publication
- London : Lawrence & Wishart, 2004.
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- Description
- 256 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- Tony Blair's use of the state to impose and manage the United Kingdom's global and individual identities, which not only defines New Labour but is doctrine in its own right, is analyzed in this look at the Contemporary Labour Party. Compared to Margaret Thatcher's market-led policies driven by social authoritarianism, Blairism is a political construct that persuades with hopes of social progressivism while maintaining the necessary disciplines of global capital. Showing how Blairism invites trust and advocates dialogue but hollows out party democracy to pursue pre-set objectives, this critique clarifies Blair's agenda in order to contest its forms of passive revolution with active construction of alternatives.
- Alternative Title
- Labour's passive revolution
- Subject
- Blair, Tony, 1953-
- Blair, Tony 1953-
- Blair, Tony
- Labour Party (Great Britain)
- Since 1979
- Geschichte 1997-2003
- Political culture > Great Britain
- Political culture
- Politics and government
- Social policy
- Politik
- Great Britain > Politics and government > 1997-
- Great Britain > Social policy > 1979-
- Great Britain
- Großbritannien
- Genre/Form
- Aufsatzsammlung.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Distinctiveness and difference within New Labour / Richard Johnson and Deborah Lynn Steinberg -- Blairism and the war of persuasion : Labour's passive revolution / Deborah Lynn Steinberg and Richard Johnson -- A new past, an old future : New Labour remakes the English school / Ken Jones -- Governing in the modern world / John Clarke and Janet Newman -- Labour's loves lost? : the legacies of moral conservatism and sex reform / Jeffrey Weeks -- New directions, or "the same old story?" : New Labour's policies on race relations, immigration and asylum / Liza Schuster and John Solomos -- Thrice told tales : modernising sexualities in the age of consent / Debbie Epstein, Richard Johnson and Deborah Lynn Steinberg -- Transformations under pressure : New Labour, class, gender and young women / Valerie Walkerdine and Richard Johnson -- Blair's men : dissident masculinities in Labour's new moral economy / Chris Heywood and Mairtin Mac An Ghaill -- Virtual members : the internal party culture of New Labour / Estella Tincknell -- Summer of discontent : New Labour and the fuel crisis / Lisa Smyth -- "Our radius of trust" : community, war and the scene of rhetoric / Joe Kelleher -- A sympathy for art : the sentimental economies of New Labour arts policy / Michael McKinnie -- Balancing acts? : empire, race and Blairite discourses of development / Pat Noxolo -- Mowlam, Mandleson and the broken peace : Northern Ireland and the contradictions of New Labour / Beatrix Campbell -- Washington's favourite : Blairism and the blood price of the international / Richard Johnson with Deborah Lynn Steinberg.
- ISBN
- 0853159920
- 9780853159926
- OCLC
- ocm57677878
- 57677878
- SCSB-1375880
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library