LEADER 03875oam 2200577 450 001 9910554229703321 005 20230126221859.0 010 $a1-5036-1433-6 024 7 $a10.1515/9781503614338 035 $a(CKB)4100000011588902 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6396126 035 $a(DE-B1597)575109 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781503614338 035 $a(OCoLC)1248759334 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011588902 100 $a20210424d2021 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aSlow anti-Americanism $esocial movementsand symbolic politics in Central Asia /$fEdward Schatz 210 1$aStanford, California :$cStanford University Press,$d[2021] 210 4$d©2021 215 $a1 online resource (xii, 215 pages) 311 $a1-5036-1369-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tCONTENTS -- $tPREFACE -- $tINTRODUCTION Slow Anti-Americanism -- $t1 America?s Changing Image -- $t2 Islamist Trajectories -- $t3 Human Rights Trajectories -- $t4 Labor, Disorganized -- $tCONCLUSION Shaping the Slow Politics of Anti-Americanism -- $tAPPENDIX Reflections on Methods and Methodology -- $tNOTES -- $tBIBLIOGRAPHY -- $tINDEX 330 $aNegative views of the United States abound, but we know too little about how such views affect politics. Drawing on careful research on post-Soviet Central Asia, Edward Schatz argues that anti-Americanism is best seen not as a rising tide that swamps or as a conflagration that overwhelms. Rather, "America" is a symbolic resource that resides quietly in the mundane but always has potential value for social and political mobilizers. Using a wide range of evidence and a novel analytic framework, Schatz considers how Islamist movements, human rights activists, and labor mobilizers across Central Asia avail themselves of this fact, thus changing their ability to pursue their respective agendas. By refocusing our analytic gaze away from high politics, he affords us a clearer view of the slower-moving, partially occluded, and socially embedded processes that ground how "America" becomes political. In turn, we gain a nuanced appreciation of the downstream effects of US foreign policy choices and a sober sense of the challenges posed by the politics of traveling images. Most treatments of anti-Americanism focus on politics in the realm of presidential elections and foreign policies. By focusing instead on symbols, Schatz lays bare how changing public attitudes shift social relations in politically significant ways, and considers how changing symbolic depictions of the United States recombine the raw material available for social mobilizers. Just like sediment traveling along waterways before reaching its final destination, the raw material that constitutes symbolic America can travel among various social groups, and can settle into place to form the basis of new social meanings. Symbolic America, Schatz shows us, matters for politics in Central Asia and beyond. 606 $aAnti-Americanism$zAsia, Central 607 $aAsia, Central$xForeign relations$zUnited States 607 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$zAsia, Central 607 $aAsia, Central$xPolitics and government$y1991- 610 $aAnti-Americanism. 610 $aCentral Asia. 610 $aIslamism. 610 $ahuman rights. 610 $alabor. 610 $apublic diplomacy. 610 $asocial movements. 610 $asymbolic politics. 615 0$aAnti-Americanism 676 $a303.48258073 700 $aSchatz$b Edward$01105430 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bUtOrBLW 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910554229703321 996 $aSlow anti-Americanism$92819041 997 $aUNINA