This is the sixth in a series of posts considering Katherine Cramer’s Politics of Resentment: Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker. In Chapter 6, Cramer declares that In this chapter, I am going to make the bold claim that support for small government is more about identity than principle. Cramer explains to readers…
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Books, Culture, Economy, Politics, Wisconsin
Considering The Politics of Resentment, ‘Attitudes toward Public Institutions and Public Employees’ (Part 5 of 9)
by JOHN ADAMS •
This is the fifth in a series of posts considering Katherine Cramer’s Politics of Resentment: Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker. In Chapter 5, Cramer describes conversations she had with rural residents. In the early part of the chapter, she recounts discussions about the university system. Some rural residents tell her they don’t…
Books, Culture, Economy, Politics, Wisconsin
Considering The Politics of Resentment, ‘The Context of Rural Consciousness’ (Part 4 of 9)
by JOHN ADAMS •
This is the fourth in a series of posts considering Katherine Cramer’s Politics of Resentment: Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker. If in Chapter 3 Cramer sought to provide the contours (outlines) of a rural consciousness, in Chapter 4 she attempts to describe the context (the circumstances around it) of it all. Cramer…
Books, Culture, Economy, Politics, Wisconsin
Considering The Politics of Resentment, ‘The Contours of Rural Consciousness’ (Part 3 of 9)
by JOHN ADAMS •
This is the third in a series of posts considering Katherine Cramer’s Politics of Resentment: Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker. The simplest way to think about Cramer’s work, by analogy, is to think of it not as a scientific poll of attitudes and preferences, but as a series of considered focus…
Books, Culture, Economy, Politics, Wisconsin
Considering The Politics of Resentment, ‘A Method of Listening’ (Part 2 of 9)
by JOHN ADAMS •
This is the second in a series of posts considering Katherine Cramer’s Politics of Resentment: Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker. One might think that Cramer’s second chapter, ‘A Method of Listening,’ would be a dry (but useful & necessary) description of her methodology. It’s far from merely that: it’s an oddly…
Books, Culture, Economy, Politics, Wisconsin
Considering The Politics of Resentment, ‘Making Sense of Politics Through Resentment’ (Part 1 of 9)
by JOHN ADAMS •
In a series of posts over the next week or so, I’ll consider Katherine Cramer’s Politics of Resentment: Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker. Cramer’s a native Wisconsinite teaching at UW-Madison. Today, I’ll summarize her thesis, as she presents it in the first chapter of PoR, ‘Making Sense of Politics Through Resentment.’…
Books, Cats
Friday Catblogging: Star Trek Cats
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Books
Gessen’s Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin
by JOHN ADAMS •
There’s considerable discussion of the role that Russians (hackers, politicians, business interests) may be having on the presidential election. I’ve just re-read Masha Gessen’s sketch of Putin, and it holds up well. (Her account ends a few years ago, but give an ample account of Putin’s upbringing, employment as a KGB officer and leader, and…
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Books in Happy Meals
by JOHN ADAMS •
Animation, Books, Charity, Film
Sunday Animation: We Need to Talk About Alice
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GOOD BOOKS: "We Need To Talk About Alice" from Plenty on Vimeo. (See all the process, character design, style frames, at plenty.tv/work/good-books-we-need-to-talk-about-alice ) “We need to talk about Alice” was commissioned by New Zealand based agency String Theory and created to be part of Good Books’ “Great Writers Series,” a collection of short films made…