Crisis Politics and Everyday Life in "Middletown”
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Author: Patrick Collier, Ball State University
James J. Connolly, Ball State University
Comment: Thomas S. Davis, Ohio State University
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This draft book chapter explores the interplay between politics and everyday life in Muncie, Indiana, the city first identified as “Middletown” by social researchers a century ago. It is based upon the Everyday Life in Middletown archive, a collection of day diaries and other material provided by volunteers that documents daily activities, thoughts, and feelings over the past decade, amid the rise of Trumpism, a pandemic, and escalating racial tensions. Here, the authors use this archive to trace a circulating sense of political crisis that intersects with—and at times disrupts—the day-to-day lives of one set of ordinary Americans.
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