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almafu_9960141194902883
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1 online resource (448 p.) :
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151 colour illustrations
ISBN:
9780748693504
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Published in Association with the Institute for the Study of Muslim CivilisationsExplores the aesthetic dimensions of the Arab Spring and the protest movements that followedFrom Egypt to India, and from Botswana to London, worker, youth and middle class rebellions have taken on the political and bureaucratic status quo and the privilege of small, wealthy and often corrupt elites at a time when the majority can no longer earn a decent wage.A remarkable feature of the protests from the Arab Spring onwards has been the salience of images, songs, videos, humour, satire and dramatic performances. This book explores the central role the aesthetic played in energising the mass mobilisations of young people, the disaffected, the middle classes, the apolitical silent majority, as well as enabling solidarities and alliances among democrats, workers, trade unions, civil rights activists and opposition parties.Comparing the North African and Middle Eastern uprisings with protest movements such as Occupy, the authors bring to bear an anthropological and sociological approach from a variety of perspectives, illuminating the debate by drawing on a wide array of disciplinary expertise.Key FeaturesIncludes over 150 colour illustrations showing how visual media is used in protest movements across the globeShares perspectives from political, media, visual, economic and linguistic anthropology, and the anthropology of work, art, social organisation and social movementLooks at the use of social networking and new media technologies such as TwitterCase studies includeProtests about regime change in Tunisia, Egypt, Syria, Libya, Bahrain, Yemen and RussiaCorruption in IndiaThe demise of the welfare state in Spain, Israel and GreeceThe living wage in Botswana and WisconsinThe financial crisis and corporate greed and the Occupy movement in British and American citiesPublished in association with The Aga Khan University Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Figures --
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Acronyms --
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Preface --
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Timeline of the Global Protests, 2010–13 --
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1. Introduction --
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Part One: the Arab Spring Uprisings and their Aftermaths --
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2. Teargas, Flags and the Harlem Shake: Images of and for Revolution in Tunisia and the Dialectics of the Local in the Global --
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3. Singing the Revolt in Tahrir Square: Euphoria, Utopia and Revolution --
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4. ‘I Dreamed of Being a People’: Egypt’s Revolution, the People and Critical Imagination --
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5. The Body of the Colonel: Caricature and Incarnation in the Libyan Revolution --
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6. Poetry of Protest: Tribes in Yemen’s ‘Change Revolution’ --
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Part Two: Beyond the Arab Spring – Asia and Africa --
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7. A Fractured Solidarity: Communitas and Structure in the Israeli 2011 Social Protest --
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8. Gandhi, Camera, Action! India’s ‘August Spring’ --
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9. Short Circuits: The Aesthetics of Protest, Media and Martyrdom in Indian Anti-corruption Activism --
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10. ‘The Mother of all Strikes’: Popular Protest Culture and Vernacular Cosmopolitanism in the Botswana Public Service Unions’ Strike, 2011 --
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Part Three: Beyond the Arab Spring – American and European Protests --
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11. Vernacular Culture and Grassroots Activism: Non-violent Protest and Progressive Ethos at the 2011 Wisconsin Labour Rallies --
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12. Occupy Wall Street: Carnival Against Capital? Carnivalesque as Protest Sensibility --
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13. Subversion through Performance: Performance Activism in London --
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14. Spain’s Indignados and the Mediated Aesthetics of Non-violence --
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15 The Poetics of Indignation in Greece: Anti-austerity Protest and Accountability --
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About the Contributors --
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Web Sources for Figures --
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Index
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In English.
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9780748693504
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780748693504
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780748693504
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