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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introducing Symbolic Objects in Contentious PoliticsPeter 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 Artifacts Sonja Dobroski -- THE POTENCY OF SYMBOLIC OBJECTS -- Chapter 6 The Symbolism of the Street in Portuguese ContentionGuya 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 NigeriaScholastica 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…”

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