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The political aesthetics of global protest

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Title The political aesthetics of global protest : the Arab Spring and beyond / edited by Pnina Werbner, Martin Webb and Kathryn Spellman-Poots.
Contributors Werbner, Pnina (editor)
Webb, Martin (Anthropologist) (editor)
Spellman-Poots, Kathryn (editor)
Publisher Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press in association with the Aga Khan University (International) in the United Kingdom, Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilizations
Creation Date [2014]
Notes Unnumbered sequence includes: Timeline of the global protests, 2010-13.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Content 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-Eryani and Rayman Aryani -- A fractured solidarity : communitas and structure in the Israeli 2011 social protest / Oren Livio and Tamar Katriel -- Gandhi, camera, action! India's 'August spring' / Christopher Pinney -- Short circuits : the aesthetics of protest, media and martyrdom in Indian anti-corruption activism / Martin Webb -- 'The mother of all strikes' : popular protest culture and vernacular cosmopolitanism in the Botswana public service union's strike, 2011 / Pnina Werbner -- Vernacular culture and grassroots activism : non-violent protest and progressive ethos at the 2011 Wisconsin labour 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 non-violence / John Postill -- The poetics of indignation in Greece : anti-austerity protest and accountability / Dimitrios Theodossopoulos.
Extent xii pages, 25 unnumbered pages, 410 pages : illustrations (some color)
24 cm.
Language English
Copyright Date ©2014
National Library system number 990038058710205171

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