Capturing the Mood of Democracy: The British General Election 2019
Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: An Election Comes to Town -- A 'Grim but Not Mean' Place1 -- Caught in a Long Moment -- Experiencing an Election from the Inside and Outside -- References -- Chapter 2: Looking for Democracy -- Bradford, West Yorkshire, England -- On Not Talking About Politics -- On Lost Connections -- In a Mood -- On Getting Ready for the Future -- On Voting as Affective Solidarity -- Reference -- Chapter 3: Contesting Narratives: How Stories Fill Holes -- 'A Barometer to How I'm Feeling' -- 'They're Playing a Game, Aren't They?' -- 'Hanging On by My Fingernails' -- 'I Don't Really Know Much What's Going On' -- Mood-Stories as Hermeneutic Clues -- References -- Chapter 4: The Poetics of a Real-Time Election -- References -- Chapter 5: How to Capture a Political Mood -- Riding Waves, Politically -- Ways of Witnessing an Election -- Performing an Election -- Seeing an Election -- Writing an Election -- The Mood of the 2019 Election in Bradford -- Why Study Political Moods? -- Critical Reflections on the Bradford Photographs -- References -- Index.