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Book Synopsis Culture and Resistance by : Edward W. Said
Download or read book Culture and Resistance written by Edward W. Said and published by Pluto Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ''... brilliantly original ... brings cultural and post-colonial theory to bear on a wide range of authors with great skill and sensitivity.' Terry Eagleton
Book Synopsis Cultural Resistance Reader by : Stephen Duncombe
Download or read book Cultural Resistance Reader written by Stephen Duncombe and published by Verso. This book was released on 2002 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Diggers seizing St. George Hill in 1649 to Hacktivists staging virtual sit-ins in the 21st century, from the retributive fantasies of Robin Hoods to those of gangsta rappers, culture has long been used as a political weapon. This expansive and carefully crafted reader brings together many of the classic texts that help to define culture as a tool of resistance. With concise, illuminating introductions throughout, it presents a range of theoretical and historical writings that have influenced contemporary debate, and includes a number of new activist authors published here for the first time. Cultural Resistance Reader is both an invaluable scholarly resource and a tool for political activists. But most importantly it will inspire everyday readers to resist.
Book Synopsis Cultures of Resistance by : Heidi Reynolds-Stenson
Download or read book Cultures of Resistance written by Heidi Reynolds-Stenson and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-17 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultures of Resistance provides new insight on a long-standing question: whether government efforts to repress social movements produce a chilling effect on dissent, or backfire and spur greater mobilization. In recent decades, the U.S. government’s repressive capacity has expanded dramatically, as the legal, technological, and bureaucratic tools wielded by agents of the state have become increasingly powerful. Today, more than ever, it is critical to understand how repression impacts the freedom to dissent and collectively express political grievances. Through analysis of activists’ rich and often deeply moving experiences of repression and resistance, the book uncovers key group processes that shape how individuals understand, experience, and weigh these risks of participating in collective action. Qualitative and quantitative analyses demonstrate that, following experiences of state repression, the achievement or breakdown of these group processes, not the type or severity of repression experienced, best explain why some individuals persist while others disengage. In doing so, the book bridges prevailing theoretical divides in social movement research by illuminating how individual rationality is collectively constructed, mediated, and obscured by protest group culture.
Book Synopsis Cultural Resistance by : Kaethe Weingarten
Download or read book Cultural Resistance written by Kaethe Weingarten and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In everyday life--in relationships, in various institutions, in texts--cultural premises influence and sometimes limit individuals’thoughts, actions, and ideas. Cultural Resistance: Challenging Beliefs About Men, Women, and Therapy analyzes cultural constraints and encourages therapists, individuals, and communities to practice cultural resistance on a daily basis, allowing for the realization of diverse and suppressed knowledges. Cultural Resistance shows general patterns by which some ideas in a culture become accepted and others are marginalized. It proposes ways individuals and communities can resist the hold of limiting ideas on their lives. In the postmodern tradition, Editor Kathy Weingarten brings together authors who ask and offer answers to the question, “What is not present in our thinking?” Each chapter invites therapists to extend their thinking about the scope of their work. Topics covered include: challenging cultural beliefs about mothers transforming masculine identities lesbian and gay parents a narrative approach to anorexia/bulimia perspectives on the Black woman and sexual trauma, focusing on Thomas v. Hill opening therapy to conversations with a personal god new conversations on controversial issues The chapters in Cultural Resistance first describe cultural premises that constrain the lives of women, men, and/or therapists and then develop an approach to resisting these constraints. A response follows each chapter in an effort to promote discourse, extend meanings, and encourage learning between professionals. Cultural Resistance yields new perspectives on the nature of social change and the relationships between individuals and culture. It offers valuable insights to family therapists, psychiatrists, psychologists, and social workers who want to broaden their thinking and approach. It gives therapists a fresh, new way of thinking about themselves, others, and their conversations through applications which may be professional, personal, or both.
Book Synopsis Culture Jamming by : Marilyn DeLaure
Download or read book Culture Jamming written by Marilyn DeLaure and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2017-02-28 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collaboration of political activism and participatory culture seeking to upend consumer capitalism, including interviews with The Yes Men, The Guerrilla Girls, among others. Coined in the 1980s, “culture jamming” refers to an array of tactics deployed by activists to critique, subvert, and otherwise “jam” the workings of consumer culture. Ranging from media hoaxes and advertising parodies to flash mobs and street art, these actions seek to interrupt the flow of dominant, capitalistic messages that permeate our daily lives. Employed by Occupy Wall Street protesters and the Russian feminist punk band Pussy Riot alike, culture jamming scrambles the signal, injects the unexpected, and spurs audiences to think critically and challenge the status quo. The essays, interviews, and creative work assembled in this unique volume explore the shifting contours of culture jamming by plumbing its history, mapping its transformations, testing its force, and assessing its efficacy. Revealing how culture jamming is at once playful and politically transgressive, this accessible collection explores the degree to which culture jamming has fulfilled its revolutionary aims. Featuring original essays from prominent media scholars discussing Banksy and Shepard Fairey, foundational texts such as Mark Dery’s culture jamming manifesto, and artwork by and interviews with noteworthy culture jammers including the Guerrilla Girls, The Yes Men, and Reverend Billy, Culture Jamming makes a crucial contribution to our understanding of creative resistance and participatory culture.
Book Synopsis Our Culture is Our Resistance by : Francisco Goldman
Download or read book Our Culture is Our Resistance written by Francisco Goldman and published by powerHouse Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our Culture Is Our Resistance: Repression, Refuge, and Healing in Guatemala is a stunning document of this tiny Central American country, revealing stories of life and death, of hope and despair, and of struggles for survival, respect, and truth. For the past ten years Jonathan Moller has photographed communities uprooted by war in Guatemala. The beauty and strength of Moller's one hundred forty-seven tritone portraits and the accompanying texts not only document and preserve the faces and events associated with this land and its history, but also display for the viewer the humanity and dignity of these largely Mayan indigenous peoples. Sponsors and official endorsers of the book include Amnesty International, the Soros Foundation, Global Exchange, The Nation Institute, the Photo Review, Witness for Peace, and Cultural Survival.
Book Synopsis Born of Resistance by : Scott L. Baugh
Download or read book Born of Resistance written by Scott L. Baugh and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2015-12-03 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This collection of essays gives voice to a diversity of perspectives involved in the production, exhibition, documentation, and interpretation of landmark Chicana/o visual cultural expression since the 1960s, exploring the idea of resistance, with a unifying theme that all art is political; artwork discussed includes etching, lithography, digital retablos, wooden sculpture, photography, painting, video installation, and documentary film"--Provided by publisher.
Book Synopsis Body of Power, Spirit of Resistance by : Jean Comaroff
Download or read book Body of Power, Spirit of Resistance written by Jean Comaroff and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-11-15 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this sophisticated study of power and resistance, Jean Comaroff analyzes the changing predicament of the Barolong boo Ratshidi, a people on the margins of the South African state. Like others on the fringes of the modern world system, the Tshidi struggle to construct a viable order of signs and practices through which they act upon the forces that engulf them. Their dissenting Churches of Zion have provided an effective medium for reconstructing a sense of history and identity, one that protests the terms of colonial and post-colonial society and culture.
Book Synopsis Dissent and Cultural Resistance in Asia's Cities by : Melissa Butcher
Download or read book Dissent and Cultural Resistance in Asia's Cities written by Melissa Butcher and published by Taylor & Francis US. This book was released on 2014-02-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book seeks to document urban experiences of dissent and emergent resistance against disjunctive global and local flows that converge and intersect in some of Asia's fastest growing cities.
Book Synopsis Colonialism, Culture and Resistance by : Panikkar,
Download or read book Colonialism, Culture and Resistance written by Panikkar, and published by OUP India. This book was released on 2009-11-12 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the different forms of resistance to colonialism and their role in the formation of alternative modernity in India.
Book Synopsis The Melancholy of Resistance by : László Krasznahorkai
Download or read book The Melancholy of Resistance written by László Krasznahorkai and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the winner of the 2015 Man Booker International Prize
Book Synopsis War and Popular Culture by : Chang-tai Hung
Download or read book War and Popular Culture written by Chang-tai Hung and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-12-22 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive study of popular culture in twentieth-century China, and of its political impact during the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-1945 (known in China as "The War of Resistance against Japan"). Chang-tai Hung shows in compelling detail how Chinese resisters used a variety of popular cultural forms—especially dramas, cartoons, and newspapers—to reach out to the rural audience and galvanize support for the war cause. While the Nationalists used popular culture as a patriotic tool, the Communists refashioned it into a socialist propaganda instrument, creating lively symbols of peasant heroes and joyful images of village life under their rule. In the end, Hung argues, the Communists' use of popular culture contributed to their victory in revolution.
Book Synopsis Race & Resistance by : Viet Thanh Nguyen
Download or read book Race & Resistance written by Viet Thanh Nguyen and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2002 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Viet Nguyen argues that Asian American intellectuals need to examine their own assumptions about race, culture and politics, and makes his case through the example of literature.
Book Synopsis Resistance in Contemporary Middle Eastern Cultures by : Karima Laachir
Download or read book Resistance in Contemporary Middle Eastern Cultures written by Karima Laachir and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study highlights the connections between power, cultural products, resistance, and the artistic strategies through which that resistance is voiced in the Middle East. Exploring cultural displays of dissent in the form of literary works, films, and music, the collection uses the concept of 'cultural resistance' to describe the way culture and cultural creations are used to resist or even change the dominant political, social, economic, and cultural discourses and structures either consciously or unconsciously. The contributors do not claim that these cultural products constitute organized resistance movements, but rather that they reflect instances of defiance that stem from their peculiar contexts. If culture can be used to consolidate and perpetuate power relations in societies, it can also be used as the site of resistance to oppression in its various forms: gender, class, ethnicity, and sexuality, subverting existing dominant social and political hegemonies in the Middle East.
Book Synopsis Theory as Resistance by : Masʼud Zavarzadeh
Download or read book Theory as Resistance written by Masʼud Zavarzadeh and published by Garland Science. This book was released on 1994 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Commodity Activism by : Roopali Mukherjee
Download or read book Commodity Activism written by Roopali Mukherjee and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2012-02 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Buying (RED) products—from Gap T-shirts to Apple—to fight AIDS. Drinking a “Caring Cup” of coffee at the Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf to support fair trade. Driving a Toyota Prius to fight global warming. All these commonplace activities point to a central feature of contemporary culture: the most common way we participate in social activism is by buying something. Roopali Mukherjee and Sarah Banet-Weiser have gathered an exemplary group of scholars to explore this new landscape through a series of case studies of “commodity activism.” Drawing from television, film, consumer activist campaigns, and cultures of celebrity and corporate patronage, the essays take up examples such as the Dove “Real Beauty” campaign, sex positive retail activism, ABC’s Extreme Home Makeover, and Angelina Jolie as multinational celebrity missionary. Exploring the complexities embedded in contemporary political activism, Commodity Activism reveals the workings of power and resistance as well as citizenship and subjectivity in the neoliberal era. Refusing to simply position politics in opposition to consumerism, this collection teases out the relationships between material cultures and political subjectivities, arguing that activism may itself be transforming into a branded commodity.
Book Synopsis Cultural Resistance, 9/11, and the War on Terror by : Jenifer Chao
Download or read book Cultural Resistance, 9/11, and the War on Terror written by Jenifer Chao and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-12-12 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultural Resistance, 9/11, and the War on Terror: Sensible Interventions offers a fresh account of the enduring cultural legacies of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks and the global war on terror through the critical lens of cultural resistance. It assesses the intersecting ways that popular culture has been deployed as oppositional practice in the post-9/11 context by documenting a collection of media texts, including a political hip hop album, a TV sitcom, a best-selling novel and studio photographs. Deviating from the conventional discursive and representative axis of mourning, nationalism and commemoration, this multimedia assemblage contests and rearticulates the political meanings, affects and visualizations of the war on terror and its global consequences. Drawing on the theoretical work of Jacques Rancière, the book also argues that these cultural artefacts are extending cultural resistance by shifting the scenes and methods of opposition to the realm of the sensible, or sensorial experiences. Never celebratory, the book encapsulates the potential of cultural practices against restricted post-9/11 regimes of visibility and audibility in the public sphere, but it also remains attentive to their blind spots, contradictions and constraints. This book offers a new angle to consider the events of 9/11, the war on terror and their continual effects, one that blurs established visions of patriotism and grief.
