CiNii 図書 - The political aesthetics of global protest : the Arab Spring and beyond

This book explores the aesthetic dimensions of the Arab Spring and the worldwide protest movements that followed. From Egypt to India, and from Botswana to London, worker, youth and middle class rebellions have taken on the political and bureaucratic status quo. When most people can no longer earn a decent wage, they pit themselves against the privilege of small, wealthy and often corrupt elites. A remarkable feature of the protests from the Arab Spring onwards has been the importance of images, songs, videos, humour, satire and dramatic performances. This book explores the central role the aesthetic played in energising the massive mobilisations of young people, the disaffected, the middle classes and the apolitical silent majority. You can discover how it fuelled solidarities and alliances among democrats, workers, trade unions, civil rights activists and opposition parties. It shares perspectives from political, media, visual, economic and linguistic anthropology, and the anthropology of work, art, social organisation and social movement. It addresses the use of social networking and new media technologies such as Twitter.

巻冊次: : pbk ISBN 9780748693351

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This explores the aesthetic dimensions of the Arab Spring and the worldwide protest movements that followed. From Egypt to India, and from Botswana to London, worker, youth and middle class rebellions have taken on the political and bureaucratic status quo. When most people can no longer earn a decent wage, they pit themselves against the privilege of small, wealthy and often corrupt elites. A remarkable feature of the protests from the Arab Spring onwards has been the importance of images, songs, videos, humour, satire and dramatic performances. This book explores the central role the aesthetic played in energising the massive mobilisations of young people, the disaffected, the middle classes and the apolitical silent majority. Discover how it fuelled solidarities and alliances among democrats, workers, trade unions, civil rights activists and opposition parties. It includes over 150 colour illustrations showing how visual media is used in protest movements across the globe. It offers a diversity of perspectives from political, media, visual, economic and linguistic anthropology, and the anthropology of work, art, social organisation and social movement.

Timeline
Preface
Introduction, Pnina Werbner, Martin Webb and Kathryn Spellman-Poots
Part I: The Arab Spring: Uprisings and Their Aftermath
Teargas, Flags, and the Harlem Shake: Images of and for Revolution in Tunisia and the Dialectics of the Local in the Global, Simon Hawkins
Singing the Revolt in Tahrir Square: Euphoria, Utopia and Revolution, Dalia Wahdan
'I Dreamed of Being a People': Egypt's Revolution, the People, and Critical Imagination, Hanan Sabea
The Body of the Colonel: Caricature and Incarnation in the Libyan Revolution, Igor Cherstich
Poetry of Protest: Tribes in Yemen's 'Change Revolution', Steven C. Caton, Hazim Al-Eriyani, and Rayman Aryani
Part II: Beyond the Arab Spring: Asia and Africa
A Fractured Solidarity: Communitas and Structure in the Israeli 2011 Social Protest, Oren Livio and Tamar Katriel
'Gandhi, Camera, Action!' Anna Hazare and the 'Media Fold' in Twenty-First Century India, Christopher Pinney
Short Circuits: The Aesthetics of Protest, Media and Martydom in Indian Anti- Corruption Activism, Martin Webb
The Mother of all Strikes: Popular Protest Culture and Vernacular Cosmopolitanism in the Botswana Public Service Unions' Strike, 2011, Pnina Werbner
Part III: Beyond the Arab Spring: American and European Protests
Vernacular Culture and Grassroots Activism: Non-violent Protest and Progressive Ethos at the 2011 Wisconsin Labor Rallies, Christine Garlough
Occupy Wall Street: Carnival Against Capital? Carnivalesque as Protest Sensibility, Claire Tancons
Subversion through Performance: Performance Activism in London, Paula Serafini
Spain's Indignados and the Mediated Aesthetics of Nonviolence, John Postill
The Poetics of Indignation in Greece: Anti-Austerity Protest and Accountability, Dimitrios Theodossopoulos
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