Between resistance and revolution : cultural politics and social protest

Author(s)

• Fox, Richard Gabriel
• Starn, Orin

Bibliographic Information

Between resistance and revolution : cultural politics and social protest

edited by Richard G. Fox and Orin Starn

Rutgers University Press, c1997

• cloth : alk. paper
• pbk. : alk. paper

Note

Includes bibliographical references

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

cloth : alk. paper ISBN 9780813524153

Description

Peasants in India hugging trees to protest logging, Brazilian feminists marching to impeach a president, Okinawan television comedians joke-starting ethnic activity. All are instances of social protest that exist in the charged territory between the cataclysmic upheaval of revolutionary war and the everyday acts of private resistance. Yet these movements ""in between"" resistance and revolution have remained invisible to scholars of politics, culture, and society. Leading scholars in anthropology, political science, history, sociology, and ethnomusicology examine dissent and direct action in Australia, Brazil, Germany, Colombia, India, Korea, Peru, and the United States and demonstrate the importance of looking beyond these poles of protest to the midways of mobilization. The contributors are Nancy Abelmann, Sonia Alvarez, Arturo Escobar, Richard Fox, Faye Ginsburg, Ramachandra Guha, Ingrid Monson, Yoshinobu Ota, Orin Starn, and Nathan Stoltzfus.

Volume

pbk. : alk. paper ISBN 9780813524160

Description

Peasants in India hugging trees to protest logging, Brazilian feminists marching to impeach a president, Okinawan television comedians joke-starting ethnic activity. All are instances of social protest that exist in the charged territory between the cataclysmic upheaval of revolutionary war and the everyday acts of private resistance. Yet these movements "in between" resistance and revolution have remained invisible to scholars of politics, culture, and society. Leading scholars in anthropology, political science, history, sociology, and ethnomusicology examine dissent and direct action in Australia, Brazil, Germany, Colombia, India, Korea, Peru, and the United States and demonstrate the importance of looking beyond these poles of protest to the midways of mobilization. The contributors are Nancy Abelmann, Sonia Alvarez, Arturo Escobar, Richard Fox, Faye Ginsburg, Ramachandra Guha, Ingrid Monson, Yoshinobu Ota, Orin Starn, and Nathan Stoltzfus.

Table of Contents

The environmentalism of the poor / Ramachandra Guha Cultural politics and biological diversity: state, capital, and social movements in the Pacific coast of Colombia / Arturo Escobar Passage from India / Richard G. Fox Reweaving the fabric of collective action: social movements and challenges to "actually existing democracy" in Brazil / Sonia E. Alvarez "From little things big things grow": indigenous media and cultural activism / Faye Ginsburg Appropriating media, resisting power: representations of hybrid identities in Okinawan popular culture / Yoshinobu Ota Abbey Lincoln's Straight ahead: jazz in the era of the civil rights movement / Ingrid Monson Dissent under socialism: opposition, reform, and the West German media in the German Democratic Republic of the 1980s / Nathan Stoltzfus Villagers at arms: war and counterrevolution in Peru's Andes / Orin Starn Reorganizing and recapturing dissent in 1990s South Korea: the case of farmers / Nancy Abelmann

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Details

• NCID: BA34568861
• ISBN:
  • 0813524156
  • 0813524164
• LCCN: 97009638
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New Brunswick, N.J.
• Pages/Volumes: vii, 279 p.
• Size: 23 cm.
• Classification:
  • LCC : HN17.5
  • DC21 : 303.48/4
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Protest movements
  • LCSH : Direct action
  • LCSH : Dissenters
  • LCSH : Culture