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Symbolic objects in contentious politics /

When we observe protest marches, striking workers on picket lines, and insurgent movements in the world today, a litany of objects routinely fill our field of vision. Some such objects are ubiquitous the world over, like flags, banners, and placards. Others are situationally unique: Who could have a...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Abrams, Benjamin (Political sociologist) (Editor ), Gardner, Peter (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press, 2023.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Tables and Figures
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introducing Symbolic Objects in Contentious PoliticsPeter Gardner and Benjamin Abrams
  • Chapter 1 Contentious Politics and Symbolic Objects Peter Gardner and Benjamin Abrams
  • THE CREATION OF SYMBOLIC OBJECTS
  • Chapter 2 A Strategic Toolbox of Symbolic Objects: Material Artifacts, Visuality and Strategic Action in European Street Protest Arenas Bartosz Slosarski
  • Chapter 3 The nation who mistook death for life: The materiality of martyrdom, Shia religiosity and contentious politics in Iran Younes Saramifar
  • Chapter 4 Somewhere Over the Rainbow: The Symbolic Politics of In/visibility in Lebanese Queer Activism John Nagle
  • Chapter 5 The Feathered Headdress: Settler Semiotics, U.S. National Myth, and the Legacy of Colonized Artifacts Sonja Dobroski
  • THE POTENCY OF SYMBOLIC OBJECTS
  • Chapter 6 The Symbolism of the Street in Portuguese ContentionGuya Accornero, Tiago Carvalho and Pedro Ramos Pinto
  • Chapter 7 Signature, Performance, Contention Hunter Dukes
  • Chapter 8 Policing bodies: The role of bodywork and symbolic objects in police violence during the Toronto G20 Valerie Zawilski
  • Chapter 9 Bodies on fire: Self-immolation as spectacle in contentious politics Dennis Zuev
  • THE LEGACY OF SYMBOLIC OBJECTS
  • Chapter 10 El Che: The (im)possibilities of a political symbol Eric Selbin
  • Chapter 11 Mekap
  • A social history of the 'terrorist shoe' that fought ISIS Dilar Dirik
  • Chapter 12 Biafran Objects and Contention in NigeriaScholastica Ngozi Atata & Ayokunle Olumuyiwa Omobowale
  • Chapter 13 The mask as political symbol: On the ritualization of political protest through mask wearing BjOrn Thomassen & Lone Riisgaard
  • CONCLUSION
  • Advancing the Study of Objects in Contention Benjamin Abrams and Peter Gardner
  • Contributors
  • Index.