Rowman & Littlefield Publishers / ECPR Press
Pages: 170
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Trim: 6 x 9
978-1-78552-346-5 • Hardback • July 2020 • $120.00 • (£80.00)
978-1-78552-347-2 • eBook • July 2020 • $39.99 •
Michael Saward is Professor of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick, and currently a Leverhulme Major Research Fellow.
1. Making Representations
2. Domains and Systems
3. Becoming Representative
4. Performative Representation
5. Shape-Shifting Representation
6. Slow Theory
7. The Problem of Speaking for Others
8. Unsettling Representations
Conclusion
Bibliography
In this masterful book, Michael Saward not only responds to his critics, but also tests the multidimensional borders of his theory, looking at representation outside formal political institutions, past traditionally political forms of communication, and beyond the micro level. Making Representations helps us think systematically about a social practice whose creative nature inherently confounds efforts to contain it within rigid analytical frameworks.
— Rebecca Abers, Professor of Political Science, University of Brasília
In this new book, Michael Saward deepens and extends his pathbreaking constructivist approach to political representation. Closely attentive to political practices and problems, this lucid and analytically precise book secures Saward’s place as one of the most innovative and important theorists of representation within contemporary democratic theory.— Mark E. Warren, Professor of Political Science, University of British Columbia