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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Ann Arbor, Michigan :
University of Michigan Press
2023.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Tables and Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introducing Symbolic Objects in Contentious Politics Peter 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 ArtifactsSonja Dobroski
- THE POTENCY OF SYMBOLIC OBJECTS
- Chapter 6 The Symbolism of the Street in Portuguese Contention Guya 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 Nigeria Scholastica 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.
