Subtitle: Cultural Politics and Social Protest
Editors: Richard G. Fox And Orin Starn, Editors
Subject: Anthropology/Political Science/Cultural Studies
Cloth ISBN 0-8135-2415-6
Paperback ISBN 0-8135-2416-4
Pages: 304 pp.
Peasants in India hugging trees to protest logging, Brazilian feminists marching to impeach a president, Okinawan television comedians joke-starting ethnic activity. All are instances of social protest that exist in the charged territory between the cataclysmic upheaval of revolutionary war and the everyday acts of private resistance. Yet these movements "in between" resistance and revolution have remained invisible to scholars of politics, culture, and society. Leading scholars in anthropology, political science, history, sociology, and ethnomusicology examine dissent and direct action in Australia, Brazil, Germany, Colombia, India, Korea, Peru, and the United States and demonstrate the importance of looking beyond these poles of protest to the midways of mobilization.
The contributors are Nancy Abelmann, Sonia Alvarez, Arturo Escobar, Richard Fox, Faye Ginsburg, Ramachandra Guha, Ingrid Monson, Yoshinobu Ota, Orin Starn, and Nathan Stoltzfus.
Richard Fox is professor of anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis and author of Gandhian Utopia: Experiments with Culture.
Orin Starn is assistant professor of cultural anthropology at Duke University and author of The Peru Reader: History, Culture and Politics.
Key Points:
o Develops a fresh way of thinking about protest.
o Examines protest in Latin America, Asia, Europe, Australia, and the United States.
"These are essays that make one think. They are mostly about how ordinary people refuse to surrender to militancies they dislike, or choose to champion militancies they prefer. Not so much for inspiration as for thoughtful reflection, such stories help us critically to weigh the tempting polarity so often drawn between violent resistance and total capitulation."-Sidney Mintz, author of Sweetness and Power and Tasting Food, Tasting Freedom
