Symbolic Objects in Contentious Politics.
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ann Arbor : : University of Michigan Press,, 2023. ©2023. |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (331 pages) |
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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.