The political aesthetics of global protest : the Arab Spring and beyond /

Explores the aesthetic dimensions of the Arab Spring and the 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 and the privilege of small, wealthy and often corrupt elit...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Werbner, Pnina (Editor ), Webb, Martin (Anthropologist) (Editor ), Spellman-Poots, Kathryn (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press in association with the Aga Khan University (International) in the United Kingdom, Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilizations, 2014.
Temas:
Since 2010
Protest movements.
Occupy movement.
Arab Spring, 2010-
Aesthetics > Political aspects.
Contestation.
Mouvement des indignés.
Printemps arabe, 2010-2011.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
HISTORY > Middle East > General.
Aesthetics > Political aspects
Occupy movement
Protest movements
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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