The Art Of Symbolic Resistance
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Author |
: Joanne N. Smith Finley |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 484 |
Release |
: 2013-09-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789004256781 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9004256784 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (81 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Art of Symbolic Resistance by : Joanne N. Smith Finley
Against the background of the Ürümchi riots (July 2009), this book provides a longitudinal study of contemporary Uyghur identities and Uyghur-Han relations. Previous studies considered China’s Uyghurs from the perspective of the majority Han (state or people). Conversely, The Art of Symbolic Resistance considers Uyghur identities from a local perspective, based on interviews conducted with group members over nearly twenty years. Smith Finley rejects assertions that the Uyghur ethnic group is a ‘creation of the Chinese state’, suggesting that contemporary Uyghur identities involve a complex interplay between long-standing intra-group socio-cultural commonalities and a more recently evolved sense of common enmity towards the Han. This book advances the discipline in three senses: from a focus on sporadic violent opposition to one on everyday symbolic resistance; from state to ‘local’ representations; and from a conceptualisation of Uyghurs as ‘victim’ to one of ‘creative agent’.
Author |
: James C. Scott |
Publisher |
: Yale University Press |
Total Pages |
: 272 |
Release |
: 2008-10-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780300153569 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0300153562 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (69 Downloads) |
Synopsis Domination and the Arts of Resistance by : James C. Scott
"Play fool, to catch wise."--proverb of Jamaican slaves Confrontations between the powerless and powerful are laden with deception--the powerless feign deference and the powerful subtly assert their mastery. Peasants, serfs, untouchables, slaves, laborers, and prisoners are not free to speak their minds in the presence of power. These subordinate groups instead create a secret discourse that represents a critique of power spoken behind the backs of the dominant. At the same time, the powerful also develop a private dialogue about practices and goals of their rule that cannot be openly avowed. In this book, renowned social scientist James C. Scott offers a penetrating discussion both of the public roles played by the powerful and powerless and the mocking, vengeful tone they display off stage--what he terms their public and hidden transcripts. Using examples from the literature, history, and politics of cultures around the world, Scott examines the many guises this interaction has taken throughout history and the tensions and contradictions it reflects. Scott describes the ideological resistance of subordinate groups--their gossip, folktales, songs, jokes, and theater--their use of anonymity and ambiguity. He also analyzes how ruling elites attempt to convey an impression of hegemony through such devices as parades, state ceremony, and rituals of subordination and apology. Finally, he identifies--with quotations that range from the recollections of American slaves to those of Russian citizens during the beginnings of Gorbachev's glasnost campaign--the political electricity generated among oppressed groups when, for the first time, the hidden transcript is spoken directly and publicly in the face of power. His landmark work will revise our understanding of subordination, resistance, hegemony, folk culture, and the ideas behind revolt.
Author |
: Stacey Nicole Zupan |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 292 |
Release |
: 2007 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:221294595 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (95 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Art of Revolution by : Stacey Nicole Zupan
Author |
: Sarah H. Awad |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 387 |
Release |
: 2018-02-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783319633305 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3319633309 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (05 Downloads) |
Synopsis Street Art of Resistance by : Sarah H. Awad
This book explores how street art has been used as a tool of resistance to express opposition to political systems and social issues around the world. Aesthetic devices such as murals, tags, posters, street performances and caricatures are discussed in terms of how they are employed to occupy urban spaces and present alternative visions of social reality. Based on empirical research, the authors use the framework of creative psychology to explore the aesthetic dimensions of resistance that can be found in graffiti, art, music, poetry and other creative cultural forms. Chapters include case studies from countries including Brazil, Canada, Chile, Denmark, Egypt, Ireland, Mexico and Spain to shed new light on the social, cultural and political dynamics of street art not only locally, but globally. This innovative collection will be of particular interest to scholars of social and political psychology, urban studies and the wider sociologies and is essential reading for all those interested in the role of art in social change.
Author |
: Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: |
Release |
: 2020-11-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0578604639 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780578604633 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (39 Downloads) |
Synopsis An Emphasis on Resistance by : Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation
Author |
: James C. Scott |
Publisher |
: Yale University Press |
Total Pages |
: 465 |
Release |
: 2009-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780300156522 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0300156529 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (22 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Art of Not Being Governed by : James C. Scott
From the acclaimed author and scholar James C. Scott, the compelling tale of Asian peoples who until recently have stemmed the vast tide of state-making to live at arm’s length from any organized state society For two thousand years the disparate groups that now reside in Zomia (a mountainous region the size of Europe that consists of portions of seven Asian countries) have fled the projects of the organized state societies that surround them—slavery, conscription, taxes, corvée labor, epidemics, and warfare. This book, essentially an “anarchist history,” is the first-ever examination of the huge literature on state-making whose author evaluates why people would deliberately and reactively remain stateless. Among the strategies employed by the people of Zomia to remain stateless are physical dispersion in rugged terrain; agricultural practices that enhance mobility; pliable ethnic identities; devotion to prophetic, millenarian leaders; and maintenance of a largely oral culture that allows them to reinvent their histories and genealogies as they move between and around states. In accessible language, James Scott, recognized worldwide as an eminent authority in Southeast Asian, peasant, and agrarian studies, tells the story of the peoples of Zomia and their unlikely odyssey in search of self-determination. He redefines our views on Asian politics, history, demographics, and even our fundamental ideas about what constitutes civilization, and challenges us with a radically different approach to history that presents events from the perspective of stateless peoples and redefines state-making as a form of “internal colonialism.” This new perspective requires a radical reevaluation of the civilizational narratives of the lowland states. Scott’s work on Zomia represents a new way to think of area studies that will be applicable to other runaway, fugitive, and marooned communities, be they Gypsies, Cossacks, tribes fleeing slave raiders, Marsh Arabs, or San-Bushmen.
Author |
: James C. Scott |
Publisher |
: Yale University Press |
Total Pages |
: 276 |
Release |
: 1990-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0300056699 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780300056693 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (99 Downloads) |
Synopsis Domination and the Arts of Resistance by : James C. Scott
"Play fool, to catch wise."--proverb of Jamaican slaves Confrontations between the powerless and powerful are laden with deception--the powerless feign deference and the powerful subtly assert their mastery. Peasants, serfs, untouchables, slaves, laborers, and prisoners are not free to speak their minds in the presence of power. These subordinate groups instead create a secret discourse that represents a critique of power spoken behind the backs of the dominant. At the same time, the powerful also develop a private dialogue about practices and goals of their rule that cannot be openly avowed. In this book, renowned social scientist James C. Scott offers a penetrating discussion both of the public roles played by the powerful and powerless and the mocking, vengeful tone they display off stage--what he terms their public and hidden transcripts. Using examples from the literature, history, and politics of cultures around the world, Scott examines the many guises this interaction has taken throughout history and the tensions and contradictions it reflects. Scott describes the ideological resistance of subordinate groups--their gossip, folktales, songs, jokes, and theater--their use of anonymity and ambiguity. He also analyzes how ruling elites attempt to convey an impression of hegemony through such devices as parades, state ceremony, and rituals of subordination and apology. Finally, he identifies--with quotations that range from the recollections of American slaves to those of Russian citizens during the beginnings of Gorbachev's glasnost campaign--the political electricity generated among oppressed groups when, for the first time, the hidden transcript is spoken directly and publicly in the face of power. His landmark work will revise our understanding of subordination, resistance, hegemony, folk culture, and the ideas behind revolt.
Author |
: Christina N. Baker |
Publisher |
: Black Performance and Cultural |
Total Pages |
: 195 |
Release |
: 2018 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0814213820 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780814213827 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (20 Downloads) |
Synopsis Contemporary Black Women Filmmakers and the Art of Resistance by : Christina N. Baker
An analysis of the ways that contemporary Black women filmmakers engage in acts of resistance through their filmmaking.
Author |
: Judith Kapferer |
Publisher |
: Berghahn Books |
Total Pages |
: 180 |
Release |
: 2008-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781845455781 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1845455789 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (81 Downloads) |
Synopsis The State and the Arts by : Judith Kapferer
The taken-for-granted assumption about the place of the arts in liberal or social democratic states and the role of the arts in supporting or opposing the ideological work of government and non-government institutions is been the issue of this book. The challenges posed by the state to the arts and by the arts to the state, focusing on several transformations of the interrelations between state and commercial arts policies in the current era. These ongoing challenges include the control of repressive tolerance, complicity with and resistance to state power, and the commoditization of the arts, including their accommodation to market and state apparatuses. The contributors tackle social and cultural policy and practice in the arts as well as connections between national states and dissenting art from a range of genres.
Author |
: Morris Rossabi |
Publisher |
: Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages |
: 183 |
Release |
: 2022-01-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781538162996 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1538162997 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (96 Downloads) |
Synopsis China and the Uyghurs by : Morris Rossabi
This balanced history of Xinjiang and its Uyghur inhabitants traces the development of this ethnic group from imperial China to the present and its fraught relationship with the Chinese state. Morris Rossabi focuses especially on CCP policies, both progressive and repressive, toward the Uyghurs since 1949.