Watt The Making Sense of Politics, Media, and Law

Rhetorical Performance as Invention, Creation, Production
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-1-009-33639-0
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 0 Seiten

Reihe: Law in Context

From Trump's 'make America great again' to Johnson's 'build back better', performative politicians use The Making Sense to persuade their public audiences. Law 'makers' do it too: A courtroom trial is a 'truth factory' in which facts are not found but forged. The 'court of popular opinion' is another such factory, though its processes are often flawed and its products faulty. Where courts of law aim to make civil peace, 'trial by Twitter' makes civil strife. Even in 'mainstream' media, journalists make news for public consumption, so that all news is to an extent 'fake news'. In a world of making, how can we separate craft from craftiness? With insights from disciplines including law, politics, rhetoric, media studies, psychology, sociology, marketing, and performance studies, The Making Sense of Politics, Media, and Law offers a constructive way to approach controversies from transgender identity to cancel culture. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Watt, Gary

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I. The Making Sense: 1. The making sense – introduction; 2. Invention, creation, production; 3. Artefaction – making things; Part II. The Truth Factory: 4. The truth factory – crafting fact and law; 5. Making sex change: legal engendering of trans people; 6. Making faces, performing persons; Part III. The Acting President: 7. The acting president; 8. Political confection – making a meal of it; 9. State building; Part IV. Masses, Media, and Popular Judgment: 10. Co-production and populism; 11. Faking news; 12. Making mistakes – trial by twitter and cancel culture; Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Watt, Gary
Gary Watt is Professor in the School of Law, University of Warwick. He is a National Teaching Fellow, having been named national 'Law Teacher of the Year' (2009). His rhetoric workshops for the Royal Shakespeare Company informed his book Shakespeare's Acts of Will (The Arden Shakespeare) and the present book arises from the award of a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship (2019-2022). He is general editor of Bloomsbury's A Cultural History of Law and founding co-editor of the journal Law and Humanities.