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Masquerade Politics
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Author : Abner Cohen
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2023-04-28
Masquerade Politics written by Abner Cohen and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-04-28 with Social Science categories.
Carnival, that image of sensuous frivolity, is shown by Abner Cohen to be a masquerade for the dynamic relations between culture and politics. His masterful study details the transformation of a local, polyethnic London fair to a massive, exclusively West Indian carnival, known as "Europe's biggest street festival," which in 1976 occasioned a bloody confrontation between black youth and the police and which has since become a fiercely contested cultural event. Cohen contrasts the development of the London carnival with the development of other carnivalesque movements, including the Renaissance Pleasure Faire of California. His valuable analysis of these relatively little-explored urban cultural movements advances further the theoretical formulations developed in his previous studies.
Masquerades Of War
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Author : Christine Sylvester
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-05-22
Masquerades Of War written by Christine Sylvester and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-22 with Political Science categories.
This collection explores the concepts and practices of masquerade as they apply to concepts and practices of war. The contributors insist that masquerades are everyday aspects of the politics, praxis, and experiences of war, while also discovering that finding masquerades and tracing how they work with war is hardly simple. With a range of theories, innovative methodologies, and contextual binoculars, masquerade emerges as a layered and complex phenomenon. It can appear as state deception, lie, or camouflage, as in the population-centric American warfare in Iraq that was sold as good for the local people, or the hidden violence Russian military forces used on each other and on local men in Chechnya. Masquerade can also be part of a people's war logic as exemplified by the Maoist movement in India. Yet masquerade can also be understood as a normal social mask that people don to foreground an identity or belief from one's cluttered repertoire in order to gain agency. Elements of masquerade can appear in texts that proclaim seemingly unequivocal positions while simultaneously yet subtly suggesting opposing positions. Masquerades of all kinds also seem ubiquitous in fieldwork research and in resistance movements in war zones. Perhaps masquerade, though, is ultimately the denial of death lurking behind the clarion call of security, a call that bolsters war by making militarized policing normal to secure populations from terrorists. These interpretations and others comprise Masquerades of War. This book will be of much interest to students of critical war studies, critical security, conflict studies and IR in general.
Masquerading Politics
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Author : John Thabiti Willis
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2018-01-15
Masquerading Politics written by John Thabiti Willis and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-15 with Social Science categories.
“Willis should be commended for penetrating a complex and socially guarded ritual resource to glean the hidden histories manifested therein.” —African Studies Review In West Africa, especially among Yoruba people, masquerades have the power to kill enemies, appoint kings, and grant fertility. John Thabiti Willis takes a close look at masquerade traditions in the Yoruba town of Otta, exploring transformations in performers, performances, and the institutional structures in which masquerade was used to reveal ongoing changes in notions of gender, kinship, and ethnic identity. As Willis focuses on performers and spectators, he reveals a history of masquerade that is rich and complex. His research offers a more nuanced understanding of performance practices in Africa and their role in forging alliances, consolidating state power, incorporating immigrants, executing criminals, and projecting individual and group power on both sides of the Afro-Atlantic world. “Willis cites oral traditions, archival sources, and publications to draw attention to the link between economic development and spectacular and historically influential masquerade performances.” —Babatunde Lawal, author of The Gelede Spectacle “Important in its emphasis on the history of an art form and its specific cultural context; of interest to academic audiences as well as general readers.” —Henry Drewal, editor of Sacred Waters “Willis’s work should be a must-read for students and established scholars alike.” —Africa
Congo Masquerade
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Author : Theodore Trefon
language : en
Publisher: Zed Books Ltd.
Release Date : 2011-09-08
Congo Masquerade written by Theodore Trefon and has been published by Zed Books Ltd. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-08 with Social Science categories.
Congo Masquerade is about mismanagement, hypocrisy and powerlessness in what has proved to be one of Africa's most troublesome and volatile states. In this scathing study of catastrophic aid inefficiency, Trefon argues that whilst others have examined war and plunder in the Great Lakes region, none have yet evaluated the imported 'template format' reform package pieced together to introduce democracy and improve the well-being of ordinary Congolese. It has, the book demonstrates, been for years an almost unmitigated failure due to the ingrained political culture of corruption amongst the Congolese elite, abetted by the complicity and incompetence of international partners. Startling and provocative, Congo Masquerade offers a critical examination of why aid is not helping the Congo.
A Copyright Masquerade
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Author : Monica Horten
language : en
Publisher: Zed Books Ltd.
Release Date : 2013-08-08
A Copyright Masquerade written by Monica Horten and has been published by Zed Books Ltd. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-08 with Political Science categories.
When thousands marched through ice and snow against a copyright treaty, their cries for free speech on the Internet shot to the heart of the European Union and forced a political U-turn. The mighty entertainment industries could only stare in dismay, their back-room plans in tatters. This highly original analysis of three attempts to bring in new laws to defend copyright on the Internet - ACTA, Ley Sinde and the Digital Economy Act - investigates the dance of influence between lobbyists and their political proxies and unmasks the sophistry of their arguments. Copyright expert Monica Horten outlines the myriad ways that lobbyists contrived to bypass democratic process and persuade politicians to take up their cause in imposing an American corporate agenda. In doing so, she argues the case for stronger transparency in copyright policy-making. A Copyright Masquerade is essential reading for anyone who cares about copyright and the Internet, and to those who care about freedom of speech and good government.
Enduring Innocence
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Author : Keller Easterling
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2007-09-28
Enduring Innocence written by Keller Easterling and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-09-28 with Architecture categories.
How outlaw "spatial products"—resorts, information technology campuses, retail chains, golf courses, and ports—act as cunning pawns in global politics. In Enduring Innocence, Keller Easterling tells the stories of outlaw "spatial products"—resorts, information technology campuses, retail chains, golf courses, ports, and other hybrid spaces that exist outside normal constituencies and jurisdictions—in difficult political situations around the world. These spaces—familiar commercial formulas of retail, business, and trade—aspire to be worlds unto themselves, self-reflexive and innocent of politics. But as Easterling shows, in reality these enclaves can become political pawns and objects of contention. Jurisdictionally ambiguous, they are imbued with myths, desires, and symbolic capital. Their hilarious and dangerous masquerades often mix quite easily with the cunning of political platforms. Easterling argues that the study of such "real estate cocktails" provides vivid evidence of the market's weakness, resilience, or violence. Enduring Innocence collects six stories of spatial products and their political predicaments: cruise ship tourism in North Korea; high-tech agricultural formations in Spain (which have reignited labor wars and piracy in the Mediterranean); hyperbolic forms of sovereignty in commercial and spiritual organizations shared by gurus and golf celebrities; automated global ports; microwave urbanism in South Asian IT enclaves; and a global industry of building demolition that suggests urban warfare. These regimes of nonnational sovereignty, writes Easterling, "move around the world like weather fronts"; she focuses not on their blending—their global connectivity—but on their segregation and the cultural collisions that ensue.Enduring Innocence resists the dream of one globally legible world found in many architectural discourses on globalization. Instead, Easterling's consideration of these segregated worlds provides new tools for practitioners sensitive to the political composition of urban landscapes.
Imperial Masquerade
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Author : Lewis H. Lapham
language : en
Publisher: Grove Press
Release Date : 1990-01-01
Imperial Masquerade written by Lewis H. Lapham and has been published by Grove Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990-01-01 with United States categories.
Essays discuss journalism, the publishing industry, the arts, fame, violence, politics, the Reagan administration, and Oliver North
The Politics Of Cultural Performance
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Author : David J. Parkin
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 1996
The Politics Of Cultural Performance written by David J. Parkin and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Performing Arts categories.
For beginning students and lay readers, introduces the basics of psychoanalytic and behaviorist psychology by examining the systems of eight major practitioners and theorists. Highlights how the psychodynamic and behavioristic schools complement each other in psychological paradigms, experimental perspectives, and mental structures. The last, posthumously published, book by Keehn (psychology, York University, Canada). Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Counsel Of Primogen
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Author : Kraig Blackwelder
language : en
Publisher: White Wolf Publishing
Release Date : 2003-03
Counsel Of Primogen written by Kraig Blackwelder and has been published by White Wolf Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-03 with Fantasy games categories.
Two Dimensional Man
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Author : Abner Cohen
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1976-01-01
Two Dimensional Man written by Abner Cohen and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976-01-01 with Social Science categories.
Proposes guidelines for the analysis of the causal interconnections between the cultural diversity of American cities and the struggle for economic and political power among the various groups in the cities