1 People doing politics

1.1 Landscape with figures

Nora Schoeller’s study of The Political Landscape was part of a wider national project to document Austria in 2016. She set out to capture the unspectacular and everyday elements of politics in action, including demonstrations and meetings, voting and speech-making […]

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1.2 Activists

Doing politics means standing up for things we believe in, often metaphorically but sometimes literally. The person standing marks themselves out from others sitting, or from the crowd around them, and so draws attention to what they’re standing for […]

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1.3 Public officials

The architect was asking for some significant changes to plans for a company headquarters which was to be built a former school playing field. After some discussion, the Planning Officer suggested they proceed by informal consultation with councillors and others […]

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1.4 Elected representatives

The UK Member of Parliament represents a constituency, a defined population in a defined territory. To represent means to speak for, and doing that effectively means getting to know who it is and where it is he or she represents […]

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1.5 A mode of doing

If these people are doing politics, what is it exactly that they are doing? […]

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1.6 In Zuccotti Park

On 17 September 2011, a group of protesters began to occupy Zuccotti Park, in New York’s financial district. They were acting partly in response to a call from Adbusters, the Vancouver-based magazine and media foundation, made earlier in the summer. That call invoked the spirit of Tahrir Square […]

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