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200 00$aSymbolic objects in contentious politics /$fBenjamin Abrams, Peter Gardner (editors)
210  1$aAnn Arbor, Michigan :$cUniversity of Michigan Press,$d2023.
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327   $aTables and Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introducing Symbolic Objects in Contentious PoliticsPeter Gardner and Benjamin Abrams -- Chapter 1 Contentious Politics and Symbolic Objects Peter Gardner and Benjamin Abrams -- THE CREATION OF SYMBOLIC OBJECTS -- Chapter 2 A Strategic Toolbox of Symbolic Objects: Material Artifacts, Visuality and Strategic Action in European Street Protest Arenas Bartosz Slosarski -- Chapter 3 The nation who mistook death for life: The materiality of martyrdom, Shia religiosity and contentious politics in Iran Younes Saramifar -- Chapter 4 Somewhere Over the Rainbow: The Symbolic Politics of In/visibility in Lebanese Queer Activism John Nagle -- Chapter 5 The Feathered Headdress: Settler Semiotics, U.S. National Myth, and the Legacy of Colonized Artifacts Sonja Dobroski -- THE POTENCY OF SYMBOLIC OBJECTS -- Chapter 6 The Symbolism of the Street in Portuguese ContentionGuya Accornero, Tiago Carvalho and Pedro Ramos Pinto -- Chapter 7 Signature, Performance, Contention Hunter Dukes -- Chapter 8 Policing bodies: The role of bodywork and symbolic objects in police violence during the Toronto G20 Valerie Zawilski -- Chapter 9 Bodies on fire: Self-immolation as spectacle in contentious politics Dennis Zuev -- THE LEGACY OF SYMBOLIC OBJECTS -- Chapter 10 El Che: The (im)possibilities of a political symbol Eric Selbin -- Chapter 11 Mekap - A social history of the 'terrorist shoe' that fought ISIS Dilar Dirik -- Chapter 12 Biafran Objects and Contention in NigeriaScholastica Ngozi Atata & Ayokunle Olumuyiwa Omobowale -- Chapter 13 The mask as political symbol: On the ritualization of political protest through mask wearing BjOrn Thomassen & Lone Riisgaard -- CONCLUSION -- Advancing the Study of Objects in Contention Benjamin Abrams and Peter Gardner -- Contributors -- Index.
330   $aExplores the 'stuff' at the heart of protests, revolutions, civil wars, and other contentious political events. In particular, the focus is on those objects that have or acquire symbolic importance. The book offers a cohesive theoretical contribution which draws on diverse scholarly work in order to form the building blocks for future inquiry.
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