Taking the Square (eBook, ePUB)

Mediated Dissent and Occupations of Public Space
Redaktion: Rovisco, Maria; Jonathan Corpus Ong

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

From the Arab uprisings to the indignados movement and the global Occupy sit-ins, recent protests and civil unrest have sparked new debates about political organisation, media representation and the nature of contemporary citizenship. But is there anything new about these occupations of public space? How are these protests legitimised or undermined by the intense mediation of streets and squares? And how are these different from expressions of dissent in other contexts, including those of ethnic minorities in the New Orleans mardi gras and survivors of natural disaster in the Philippines?

This book challenges the notion of a 'disappearance of public space' by reconsidering the significance of physical space and embodiment in the conduct and consequences of protest events. Looking at a range of assemblies-sustained and fleeting, spectacular and ordinary-this volume illuminates how square and street politics and their mediation become vehicles for new ideas of community, citizenship and public life.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juni 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781783483976
• Artikelnr.: 49829493

Autorenporträt

Edited by Maria Rovisco and Jonathan Corpus Ong

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements / Introduction
Maria Rovisco and Jonathan Corpus Ong / Part I: Street Politics
Occupations and Dissent / 1. Identity
Place and Politics: From Picket Lines to Occupation
Pollyanna Ruiz / 2. Occupying the digital-popular
Paolo Gerbaudo / 3. Place
Protest & Communication: Protest Camps and the Mediatisation of Space
Fabian Frenzel
Patrick McCurdy
Anna Feigenbaum / Part II: Democratic Struggles
New Publics and Mediated Protest / 4. Protest as Interruption of the Disaster Imaginary: Overcoming Voice-Denying Rationalities in Post-Haiyan Philippines
Nicole Curato
Jonathan Corpus Ong
Liezel Longboan / 5. 'We Live in Public': Twitter and Self-Mediated Hyper-Visibility in the Occupy Wall Street Movement
Joel Penney / 6. The Relationship between Online and Offline Participation in a Social Movement: Gezi Park Protests in the Diaspora
Christine Ogan
Roya Imani Giglou
and Leen d'Haenens / 7. Mediating Movement in Occupied Spaces: Documentation on Social Media Pages in the Context of the Umbrella Movement
Lisa Y. M. Leung / Part III: The Performance of Protest / 8. Performative Revolution in Egypt: An essay in Cultural Power
Jeffrey Alexander / 9. Hybridity in Street Performance of Zulu and Mardi Gras Indians in New Orleans
Diane Grams / 10. Minority Groups and Strategies of Display and Dissent in Physical
Virtual
and Hybrid Spaces
Cheryll Ruth R. Soriano and Ruepert Jiel Cao / List of Contributors