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Staging politics : power and performance in Asia and Africa / edited by Julia C. Strauss and Donal B. Cruise O'Brien.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- International library of political studies ; 18.
- International library of political studies ; 18
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political culture--Asia.
- Political culture.
- Political culture--Africa.
- Behaviorism (Political science).
- Africa.
- Behaviorism (Political science)--Asia.
- Behaviorism (Political science)--Africa.
- Asia--Politics and government.
- Asia.
- Politics and government.
- Africa--Politics and government.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 255 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : I. B. Tauris ; New York : Distributed in the United States of America by Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
- Contents:
- 1 Show and State in Senegal: Play-acting on the Threshold of Power / Donal B. Cruise O'Brien 15
- Trials
- 2 'In the Name of the People': the 'People's Court' and the Iraqi Revolution (1958-1960) / Charles Tripp 31
- 3 Accusing Counterrevolutionaries: Bureaucracy and Theatre in the Revolutionary People's Republic of China (1950-1957) / Julia C. Strauss 49
- 4 The Politics of Performance: Gandhi's Trial Read as Theatre / Sudipta Kaviraj 71
- Elections and Leadership
- 5 Kerekou the Chameleon, Master of Myth / Patrick Claffey 91
- 6 'Blue Marches': Public Performance and Political Turnover in Senegal / Vincent Foucher 111
- 7 Putting on a Show and Electoral Fortunes in Taiwan's Multi-Party Elections / Dafydd Fell 133
- 8 Political Theatre in the 2003 Cambodian Elections: State, Democracy and Conciliation in Historical Perspective / Steve Heder 151
- 9 Dalit Processions: Street Politics and Democratization in India / Nicolas Jaoul 173
- 10 State Power, Political Theatre and Reinvention of the Pro-Democracy Movement in Hong Kong: The March on 1 July 2003 / Agnes Shuk-mei Ku 195
- 11 Watching the Watchers: The Spectacle of Civil Society in the Philippines / Eva-Lotta E. Hedman 215
- Afterword: The Heisenberg Principle of Political Performance / Joseph W. Esherick 243.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1845113675
- 9781845113674
- OCLC:
- 74525319
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