Le vote comme engagement

Heredia, Beatriz; Palmeira, Moacir

doi:10.3917/gen.093.0127

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“…Understanding these processes of personalization is crucial when it comes to analyzing the role of locally based politicians. As Beatriz de Heredia and Moair Palmeira () argue in the context of Brazil, politics is not limited to the ballot box but takes place through personalized relations that unfold between politicians and people outside “politics time,” understood as the period of political campaigns and elections. When asking residents what they expect from their politicians, I was told that they sought somebody who “cared for the local community” or was “involved.” To be “involved” meant to be present in people's lives—to take an active interest in residents’ needs and to support them in their efforts to meet those needs.…”

Section: Bread‐and‐butter Politicsmentioning

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“…The bread‐and‐butter approach is not unusual, nor does it seem especially unique. With its emphasis on proximity over distance and on personalization over abstraction, it has been central to how people on the margins have appropriated electoral politics in various places (e.g., Auyero ; Braconnier, Dormagen, and Rocha ; Heredia and Palmeira ; James ; Lazar ).…”

Section: Conclusion: Personalized Politics and “Alternative” Democratmentioning

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Bread-and-butter politics: Democratic disenchantment and everyday politics on an English council estate

Koch

2016

American Ethnologist

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Despite evidence of widespread disenchantment with formal politics among England's impoverished sectors, people on the margins continue to engage with elected representatives on their own terms. On English council estates (housing projects), residents mediate their experiences of an alien and distant political system by drawing local politicians into localized networks of support and care. While this allows residents to voice demands for “bread and butter,” personalized alliances with politicians rarely translate into collective action. The limits of one political party's bread‐and‐butter strategy highlight the precariousness of working‐class movements at a time when the political Left has largely been dismantled. They also demonstrate the need to account for the lived realities of social class in aspirational narratives for “alternative” democratic futures. [democratic crisis, neoliberalism, voting, working‐class movements, council estates, alternative democracies, United Kingdom]

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Section: Bread‐and‐butter Politicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Conclusion: Personalized Politics and “Alternative” Democratmentioning

confidence: 99%