Cultures of Transparency: Between Promise and Peril

Synopsis

This volume addresses the major questions surrounding a concept that has become ubiquitous in the media and in civil society as well as in political and economic discourses in recent years, and which is demanded with increasing frequency: transparency. How can society deal with increasing and often diverging demands and expectations of transparency? What role can different political and civil society actors play in processes of producing, or preventing, transparency? Where are the limits of transparency and how are these boundaries negotiated? What is the relationship of transparency to processes of social change, as well as systems of social surveillance and control? Engaging with transparency as an interrelated product of law, politics, economics and culture, this interdisciplinary volume explores the ambiguities and contradictions, as well as the social and political dilemmas, that the age of transparency has unleashed. As such it will appeal to researchers across the social sciences and humanities with interests in politics, history, sociology, civil society, citizenship, public policy, criminology and law.

Copyright:

2021

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

Book Size:

228 Pages

ISBN-13:

9781000373547

Related ISBNs:

9780367346263, 9780429326936, 9780367757069

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Date of Addition:

04/19/21

Copyrighted By:

selection and editorial matter, Stefan Berger, Susanne Fengler, Dimitrij Owetschkin and Julia Sittmann

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Social Studies, Sociology

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Bookshare Staff

Usage Restrictions:

This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Stefan Berger

Edited by:

Susanne Fengler

Edited by:

Dimitrij Owetschkin

Edited by:

Julia Sittmann