Political oratory and cartooning : an ethnography of democratic processes in Madagascar / Jennifer Jackson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jackson, Jennifer (Jennifer L.)

Series:

New directions in ethnography ; 4.

New directions in ethnography ; 4

Gale eBooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Presidents--Madagascar--Election.

Presidents.

Political campaigns--Madagascar.

Political campaigns.

Political consultants--Madagascar.

Political consultants.

Ethnology--Madagascar.

Ethnology.

Madagascar--Politics and government--1992-.

Madagascar.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxvi, 257 pages) : illustrations (some color), color mapages.

Place of Publication:

Chichester, West Sussex : Wiley & Sons, 2013.

Chichester, West Sussex : Wiley-Blackwell, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Jackson traces the lively skirmishes between Madagascar's political cartoonists and politicians whose cartooning and public oratory reveal an ever-shifting barometer of democracy in the island nation. The first anthropological study of the role of language and rhetoric in reshaping democracy Maps the dynamic relationship between formalized oratory, satire, and political change in MadagascarA fascinating analysis of the extraordinary Ciceronian features of kabary, a style of formal public oratory long abandoned in the WestDocuments the management by Uni

Contents:

Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; List of Figures; Note on Orthography; Acknowledgments; Preface; CHAPTER 1: Introduction; Organization of the Study; Note; References; CHAPTER 2: A History of Language and Politics in Madagascar; The First Period of Literacy in Madagascar; Second Period of Literacy; Language Engineering; Kabary as the Model for the Sermon; Expanding the Reach of the Bureaucratic State through Literacy and Class System; Determining Class Status through Literacy; The Death of King Radama and the "Dark Ages" of Literacy

Language-Mediated Nationalist Insurgencies during French Colonization, 1895Madagascar's First Republic; Class Struggle, Language, and Political Resistance within the Nationalist Movements of Postcolonial Madagascar; Bureaucratizing the Ideologies and Objects of Nationalism and Class Struggle; 1975-1991: From Malgachization to Socialism to Structural Adjustment Liberalization; Democratic Transitions, Transitions to Democracy; Notes; References; CHAPTER 3: The Structural and Social Organization of Kabary Politika; On the Structure and Style of Kabary Politika

The Prototypical Kabary Politika PlanThe arrangement of elements of speech; Beyond the Event: Kabary as Social Contract; Rhetorical strategy to convince; Embodiment and voice; On Hasina Power: Notions of Status and Authority Informing Possibilities of Comportment and Rhetorical Strategy; Power and Sharing the Political Stage with an Exemplary Form; Notes; References; CHAPTER 4: The Structural and Social Organization of Kisarisary Politika (Political Cartooning); Postcolonial History of Political Cartooning in Urban Imerina; Rites, Membership, and Networks in the Cartooning Community

Speaking in Their Language: Code Choice, Access, and Cartooning's AudienceHooking the Talons in Deep: The Conditions of Political Critique as Political Action; Kabary and Cartooning Dialogics: Speaking Disorder to Order; Notes; References; CHAPTER 5: Building Publics through Interanimating and Shifting Registers; On Being Gasy: Some Background on Fihavanana; Proverbs as Modes of Authority and as Portable Tropes across Space and Time; Cartooning's Thwarting of Political Opinion and Social Imaginaries of Fihavanana; The Durable Exchange between Proverbs and Scripture

Aza matohatra fa mino fotsiny ihany! "Have no fear, just believe!"Action Words and the Code of Modernity and Development; Conclusion; Notes; References; CHAPTER 6: "Stop acting like a slave"; Introduction; Analogical Groupings of "Fashions of Speaking" and Embodiment in Political Cartooning; Background on an Articulated Class and Ethnic Consciousness in Urban Highlands Madagascar; Theories Mapping Fashions of Speaking to Identity; Notes; References; CHAPTER 7: "That's what you think"; To Speak Like "That": Speaking Truth to Power, Power to "Truth"

Controlling the Code to Discipline Access to State Power

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9781118306185

111830618X

9781299158115

1299158110

9781118314432

1118314433

9781118306154

1118306155

OCLC:

830813293