Book Review: Darrell M West, Going Mobile: How Wireless Technology Is Reshaping Our Lives
| Published date | 01 August 2016 |
| Date | 01 August 2016 |
| DOI | 10.1177/1478929916652797 |
| Author | Pete Woodcock |
| Subject Matter | Book ReviewsGeneral Politics |
Political Studies Review 14 (3)
not limit themselves to a single approach; they
Overall, this rich Handbook provides a useful
rather articulate 5–6 recent trends (mostly from
theorisation of many emerging political
English-speaking thinkers) within a given sub-
phenomena.
theme or, in the last part, within broad geo-
graphical regions (e.g. Africa, China and
Yves Laberge
India). Contributors are often critical when
(Centre de recherche en éducation et forma-
reviewing a diversity of apparently similar
tion relatives à l’environnement et à
approaches or paradigms, which is better than
l’écocitoyenneté (Centr’ERE))
ignoring the theories they disagree with (see p.
The Author(s) 2016
137). In the first half, some basic themes are
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presented like ‘Multicultural citizenship’
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(chapter 5, p. 313) and ‘Ecological citizen-
ship’, seen by Sherilyn MacGregor as ‘a posi-
tion to resist neoliberalism’ (chapter 6, p. 128;
Going Mobile: How Wireless Technology
emphasis in the original).
Is Reshaping Our Lives by Darrell M West.
Among many rigorous contributions, an
Washington, DC: The Brookings Institute, 2015.
interesting chapter questions the status of the
171pp., £19.50 (p/b), ISBN 9780815726258
Tea Party Movement in the United States
because of its perceived position as being
We are used to the claim that we now live in a
right-wing: is it really a mass movement, a
digital age. However, in this entertaining book,
grassroots emanation or just another manifes-
Darrell West enthuses that the growth of the
tation of the traditional right-wing elite?
use and availability of mobile technologies
Nowadays, some new social movements do not
(smartphones and tablets) represents a signifi-
necessarily equate to left-wing groups any-
cant change in the nature of the impact of the
more. Elsewhere, some unusual dimensions
digital world upon...
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