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Symbolic Objects in Contentious Politics.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Abrams, Benjamin.
Other Authors: Gardner, Peter Robert.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2023.
Edition:1st ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introducing Symbolic Objects in Contentious Politics | Peter Gardner and Benjamin Abrams
  • 1. Contentious Politics and Symbolic Objects | Peter Gardner and Benjamin Abrams
  • The Creation of Symbolic Objects
  • 2. A Strategic Toolbox of Symbolic Objects: Material Artifacts, Visuality, and Strategic Action in European Street-Protest Arenas | Bartosz Ślosarski
  • 3. The Nation That (Mis)took Death for Life: The Materiality of Martyrdom, Shia Religiosity, and Contentious Politics in Iran | Younes Saramifar
  • 4. Somewhere Over the Rainbow: The Symbolic Politics of In/visibility in Lebanese Queer Activism | John Nagle
  • 5. The Feathered Headdress: Settler Semiotics, US National Myth, and the Legacy of Colonized Artifacts | Sonja Dobroski
  • The Potency of Symbolic Objects
  • 6. The Symbolism of the Street in Portuguese Contention | Guya Accornero, Tiago Carvalho, and Pedro Ramos Pinto
  • 7. Signature, Performance, Contention | Hunter Dukes
  • 8. Policing Bodies: The Role of Bodywork and Symbolic Objects in Police Violence during the Toronto G20 | Valerie Zawilski
  • 9. Bodies on Fire: Self-Immolation as Spectacle in Contentious Politics | Dennis Zuev
  • The Legacy of Symbolic Objects
  • 10. El Che: The (Im)possibilities of a Political Symbol | Eric Selbin
  • 11. Mekap-A Social History of the "Terrorist Shoe" That Fought ISIS | Dilar Dirik
  • 12. Biafran Objects and Contention in Nigeria | Scholastica Ngozi Atata and Ayokunle Olumuyiwa Omobowale
  • 13. The Mask as Political Symbol: On the Ritualization of Political Protest through Mask-Wearing | Bjørn Thomassen and Lone Riisgaard
  • Conclusion
  • Advancing the Study of Objects in Contention | Benjamin Abrams and Peter Gardner
  • Contributors
  • Index.

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