It develops the concept of political culture through case studies of communicative action. It introduces the concept of the texture of political action, which refers to how social context operates on the surface of an event to shape political experience. It focuses on thecatastrophic dimension of the global social order by examining how ordinary people are contending with the paradoxical condition of normal system operation becoming indistinguishable from system breakdown. It integrates ethnography and critical discourse analysis through casestudies in Hungary, Macedonia, Kosovo, Ethiopia,…mehr
It develops the concept of political culture through case studies of communicative action. It introduces the concept of the texture of political action, which refers to how social context operates on the surface of an event to shape political experience. It focuses on thecatastrophic dimension of the global social order by examining how ordinary people are contending with the paradoxical condition of normal system operation becoming indistinguishable from system breakdown. It integrates ethnography and critical discourse analysis through casestudies in Hungary, Macedonia, Kosovo, Ethiopia, Senegal, Chicago, the Occupy Wall Street movement, online consumption, and an art exhibition.
Ralph Cintron is Professor in the Departments of English as well as Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is the author of Angels' Town: Chero Ways, Gang Life, and Rhetorics of the Everyday; Democracy as Fetish; and co-editor/PI of 60 Years of Migration: Puerto Ricans in Chicagoland.
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List of Illustrations Preface Introduction Robert Hariman Chapter 1. The Communal Dilemma as a Cultural Resource in Hungarian Political Expression David Boromisza-Habashi Chapter 2. Chronotopes of the Political: Public Discourse, News Media, and Mass Action in Post-Conflict Macedonia Andrew Graan Chapter 3. The In-Between States: Enduring Catastrophes as Sources of Democracy's Deadlocks in the Balkans: The Case of Kosovo Naser Miftari Chapter 4. Occupy Wall Street as Rhetorical Citizenship: The Ongoing Relevance of Pragmatism for Deliberative Democracy Robert Danisch Chapter 5. Contemporary Social Movements and the Emergent Nomadic Political Logic Peter N. Funke and Todd Wolfson Chapter 6. "Project Heat" and Sensory Politics in Redeveloping Chicago Public Housing Catherine Fennell Chapter 7. Reading between the Digital Lines: Narrating the Political Rhetoric of Ethical Consumption Eleftheria J. Lekakis Chapter 8. The Uncertainty of Power and the Certainty of Irony: Encountering the State in Kara, Southern Ethiopia Felix Girke Chapter 9. Grassroots Discourses in Times of Scarcity: Debating the 2004 Locust Plague in Northwestern Senegal and the World Christian Meyer Chapter 10. Too Too Much Much: Presence and Catastrophe in Contemporary Art Monica Westin Conclusion: What Next? Modernity, Revolution, and the "Turn" to Catastrophe Ralph Cintron Contributors Index
List of Illustrations Preface Introduction Robert Hariman Chapter 1. The Communal Dilemma as a Cultural Resource in Hungarian Political Expression David Boromisza-Habashi Chapter 2. Chronotopes of the Political: Public Discourse, News Media, and Mass Action in Post-Conflict Macedonia Andrew Graan Chapter 3. The In-Between States: Enduring Catastrophes as Sources of Democracy's Deadlocks in the Balkans: The Case of Kosovo Naser Miftari Chapter 4. Occupy Wall Street as Rhetorical Citizenship: The Ongoing Relevance of Pragmatism for Deliberative Democracy Robert Danisch Chapter 5. Contemporary Social Movements and the Emergent Nomadic Political Logic Peter N. Funke and Todd Wolfson Chapter 6. "Project Heat" and Sensory Politics in Redeveloping Chicago Public Housing Catherine Fennell Chapter 7. Reading between the Digital Lines: Narrating the Political Rhetoric of Ethical Consumption Eleftheria J. Lekakis Chapter 8. The Uncertainty of Power and the Certainty of Irony: Encountering the State in Kara, Southern Ethiopia Felix Girke Chapter 9. Grassroots Discourses in Times of Scarcity: Debating the 2004 Locust Plague in Northwestern Senegal and the World Christian Meyer Chapter 10. Too Too Much Much: Presence and Catastrophe in Contemporary Art Monica Westin Conclusion: What Next? Modernity, Revolution, and the "Turn" to Catastrophe Ralph Cintron Contributors Index
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