Culture, Catastrophe, and Rhetoric (eBook, PDF)

The Texture of Political Action
Redaktion: Hariman, Robert

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume explores political culture, especially the catastrophic elements of the global social order emerging in the twenty-first century. By emphasizing the texture of political action, the book theorizes how social context becomes evident on the surface of events and analyzes the performative dimensions of political experience. The attention to catastrophe allows for an understanding of how ordinary people contend with normal system operation once it is indistinguishable from system breakdown. Through an array of case studies, the book provides an account of change as it is experienced, negotiated, and resisted in specific settings that define a society's capacity for political action.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781782387473
• Artikelnr.: 44758056

Autorenporträt

Ralph Cintron is Professor in the Departments of English as well as Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is the author of Angels' Town: Chero Ways, Gang Life, and Rhetorics of the Everyday; Democracy as Fetish; and co-editor/PI of 60 Years of Migration: Puerto Ricans in Chicagoland.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Preface
Introduction
Robert Hariman
Chapter 1. The Communal Dilemma as a Cultural Resource in Hungarian
Political Expression
David Boromisza-Habashi
Chapter 2. Chronotopes of the Political: Public Discourse, News Media, and
Mass Action in Post-Conflict Macedonia
Andrew Graan
Chapter 3. The In-Between States: Enduring Catastrophes as Sources of
Democracy's Deadlocks in the Balkans: The Case of Kosovo
Naser Miftari
Chapter 4. Occupy Wall Street as Rhetorical Citizenship: The Ongoing
Relevance of Pragmatism for Deliberative Democracy
Robert Danisch
Chapter 5. Contemporary Social Movements and the Emergent Nomadic Political
Logic
Peter N. Funke and Todd Wolfson
Chapter 6. "Project Heat" and Sensory Politics in Redeveloping Chicago
Public Housing
Catherine Fennell
Chapter 7. Reading between the Digital Lines: Narrating the Political
Rhetoric of Ethical Consumption
Eleftheria J. Lekakis
Chapter 8. The Uncertainty of Power and the Certainty of Irony:
Encountering the State in Kara, Southern Ethiopia
Felix Girke
Chapter 9. Grassroots Discourses in Times of Scarcity: Debating the 2004
Locust Plague in Northwestern Senegal and the World
Christian Meyer
Chapter 10. Too Too Much Much: Presence and Catastrophe in Contemporary Art
Monica Westin
Conclusion: What Next? Modernity, Revolution, and the "Turn" to Catastrophe
Ralph Cintron
Contributors
Index