Political Aesthetics of Global Protest : The Arab Spring and Beyond.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Werbner, Pnina, Editor.

Contributor:

Spellman-Poots, Kathryn, Contributor.

Spellman-Poots, Kathryn, Editor.

Webb, Martin, Contributor.

Webb, Martin, Editor.

Werbner, Pnina, Contributor.

Werbner, Pnina, Editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Protest movements--Political aspects.

Protest movements.

Occupy movement.

Arab Spring, 2010-.

Aesthetics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (449 p.)

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh, GBR Edinburgh University Press 20140801

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Published in Association with the Institute for the Study of Muslim CivilisationsExplores the aesthetic dimensions of the Arab Spring and the protest movements that followedFrom 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 elites at a time when the majority can no longer earn a decent wage.A remarkable feature of the protests from the Arab Spring onwards has been the salience of images, songs, videos, humour, satire and dramatic performances. This book explores the central role the aesthetic played in energising the mass mobilisations of young people, the disaffected, the middle classes, the apolitical silent majority, as well as enabling solidarities and alliances among democrats, workers, trade unions, civil rights activists and opposition parties.Comparing the North African and Middle Eastern uprisings with protest movements such as Occupy, the authors bring to bear an anthropological and sociological approach from a variety of perspectives, illuminating the debate by drawing on a wide array of disciplinary expertise.Key FeaturesIncludes over 150 colour illustrations showing how visual media is used in protest movements across the globeShares perspectives from political, media, visual, economic and linguistic anthropology, and the anthropology of work, art, social organisation and social movementLooks at the use of social networking and new media technologies such as TwitterCase studies includeProtests about regime change in Tunisia, Egypt, Syria, Libya, Bahrain, Yemen and RussiaCorruption in IndiaThe demise of the welfare state in Spain, Israel and GreeceThe living wage in Botswana and WisconsinThe financial crisis and corporate greed and the Occupy movement in British and American citiesPublished in association with The Aga Khan University Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Figures

Acronyms

Preface

Timeline of the Global Protests, 2010–13

1. Introduction

Part One: the Arab Spring Uprisings and their Aftermaths

2. Teargas, Flags and the Harlem Shake: Images of and for Revolution in Tunisia and the Dialectics of the Local in the Global

3. Singing the Revolt in Tahrir Square: Euphoria, Utopia and Revolution

4. ‘I Dreamed of Being a People’: Egypt’s Revolution, the People and Critical Imagination

5. The Body of the Colonel: Caricature and Incarnation in the Libyan Revolution

6. Poetry of Protest: Tribes in Yemen’s ‘Change Revolution’

Part Two: Beyond the Arab Spring – Asia and Africa

7. A Fractured Solidarity: Communitas and Structure in the Israeli 2011 Social Protest

8. Gandhi, Camera, Action! India’s ‘August Spring’

9. Short Circuits: The Aesthetics of Protest, Media and Martyrdom in Indian Anti-corruption Activism

10. ‘The Mother of all Strikes’: Popular Protest Culture and Vernacular Cosmopolitanism in the Botswana Public Service Unions’ Strike, 2011

Part Three: Beyond the Arab Spring – American and European Protests

11. Vernacular Culture and Grassroots Activism: Non-violent Protest and Progressive Ethos at the 2011 Wisconsin Labour Rallies

12. Occupy Wall Street: Carnival Against Capital? Carnivalesque as Protest Sensibility

13. Subversion through Performance: Performance Activism in London

14. Spain’s Indignados and the Mediated Aesthetics of Non-violence

15 The Poetics of Indignation in Greece: Anti-austerity Protest and Accountability

About the Contributors

Web Sources for Figures

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

9780748693504

0748693505

OCLC:

903488799