
The power of framing - issue contents (30.1)
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In this issue of the Progressive Review we ask: Which framing narratives are influencing the public? Who is doing the framing and whose interests are at stake? When are they doing it? How are the right using framing? How can progressives utilise it as a tool for social change? What are the limitations of framing? What does it mean for questions of objectivity? Our contributors tackle these questions and more head on.
Contents
- Editorial / Anita Bhadani, Rosie Lockwood, Lucy Mort, Ellie Kearns, Joseph Evans and Joshua Emden
- Do progressives have a persuasion problem? / Nicky Hawkins
- The power of words / Raquel Jesse
- Words Matter / Julia Tinsley-Kent and Fizza Qureshi
- Frames of war and welfare / Ben Whitham and Nadya Ali
- The Anthropocene as framed by the far right / Dan Bailey and Joe Turner
- The power of photographs in framing contests / John Amis
- Dignity for dead women / Janey Starling and Jade Hammond
- Is mental illness really an ‘illness’? / Micha Frazer-Carroll
- Rethinking decision-making about home improvements / Ruth Bookbinder
- 15-minute cities and the denial(s) of auto-freedom / Ian Loader
- “There are strengths that are vast’’ / Loic Menzies
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