{"product_id":"9781496217592-back-to-america","title":"Back to America","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIdentity, Political Culture, and the Tea Party Movement. \u003ci\u003eBack to America\u003c\/i\u003e is one of the few ethnographies of local activist groups within the Tea Party. Westermeyer explains the significance of grassroots groups in individual as well as collective political identity formation and how both contribute to the success of the wider movement. \u003cbr\u003e  . \u003ci\u003eBack to America\u003c\/i\u003e is an ethnography of local activist groups within the Tea Party, one of the most important recent political movements to emerge in the United States and one that continues to influence American politics. Though often viewed as the brainchild of conservative billionaires and Fox News, the success of the Tea Party movement was as much, if not more, the result of everyday activists at the grassroots level. William H. Westermeyer traces how local Tea Party groups (LTPGs) create submerged spaces where participants fashion action-oriented collective and personal political identities forged in the context of cultural or figured worlds. These figured worlds allow people to establish meaningful links between their own lives and concerns, on the one hand, and the movement’s goals and narratives, on the other. Collectively, the production and circulation of the figured worlds within LTPGs provide the basis for subjectivities that often nurture political activism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Westermeyer reveals that LTPGs are vibrant and independent local organizations that, while constantly drawing on nationally disseminated cultural images and discourses, are far from simple agents of the larger organizations and the media. \u003ci\u003eBack to America \u003c\/i\u003eoffers a welcome anthropological approach to this important social movement and to our understanding of grassroots political activism writ large.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40947258753121,"sku":"9781496217592","price":27.76,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/f47777520cba1f023bd5504ec8818f0c.png?v=1692768577","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781496217592-back-to-america","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}