Political sentiments and social movements : the person in politics and culture / Claudia Strauss, Jack R. Friedman, editors.
This unique volume is about how ordinary people construct political meanings, form political emotions and identities, and become involved in or disengaged from political contests. Drawing on psychological anthropology, it illustrates the complexities of political subjectivities through engaging pers...
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| Language: | English |
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Palgrave Macmillan,
[2018]
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| Series: | Culture, mind, and society.
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Table of Contents:
- Intro; Series Preface; Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; Editors and Contributors; List of Figures; Chapter 1 Introduction: The Person in Politics and Culture; Politics, Culture, and Persons; Political Subjectivity-Meanings and Theories; Cultural Models in Cognitive Anthropology; Psychodynamic Anthropology; Social Practice Theories; Cross-Cutting Themes in This Volume; What Is the Role of Emotions in Politics?; How Are Political Messages Taken up by Members of the Public? In Particular, How Do People Interact with Political Messages in Media, Including Social Media?
- What Are the Subjective Consequences of Conflicting Political Discourses?How Do People's Identities Relate to Their Politics?; What Are the Subjectivities of Political Bystanders?; How Do People Become Politically Active?; How Do We Explain Populist Politics?; Conclusion: The Hazards of Person-Centered Approaches to Politics; References; Part I Political Sentiments; Chapter 2 Engaged by the Spectacle of Protest: How Bystanders Became Invested in Occupy Wall Street; The Occupy Movement and My Participants; Should We Expect Bystanders to Care About Contentious Politics?
- Schemas and Personal Semantic NetworksInterviewing for Cultural Schema and Personal Semantic Network Analysis; Two Views of the Occupy Movement; What Was Occupy's Message?; Is This What Democracy Looks Like? Cultural Schemas About Occupy's Tactics; Personal Semantic Networks; The Personal, Cultural, and Social in Bystanders' Political Sentiments; References; Chapter 3 Progressives' Plantation: The Tea Party's Complex Relationship with Race; Tea Party Components and the Formation of Figured Worlds; Descriptions of Tea Party Racism in the Literature
- The Tea Party as a Version of Whiteness and Colorblind RacismWhiteness; Colorblind Racism; Abstract Liberalism Frame; Cultural Racism Frame; Naturalization of Difference; Conclusion; References; Chapter 4 Refiguring the Public, Political, and Personal in Current Danish Exclusionary Reasoning; Introduction; The Public Space Is Not What It Used to Be; The Nation in Danger: Danish Exclusionary Reasoning; Neonationalism; Nationalism and Narcissism; An Amusement Park Controversy; A Missing Handshake: From Gender Discrimination to Radical Islam; Conclusion; References
- Chapter 5 Feeling Populist: Navigating Political Subjectivity in Post-socialist RomaniaThe Trouble with Populism ... ; Romanian Coal Miners of the Jiu Valley; Laszlo's Story: Law, Rights, Suffering, and Subjectivity; 2000-2007; References; Chapter 6 Sensory Politics and War: Affective Anchoring and Vitality in Nigeria and Kuwait; Affects of Danger; Sensory Politics and Religion; Musa and Mediated Islam in Northern Nigeria; Dahlia, Mediating Conflict in Kuwait; Dis/sociating; References; Chapter 7 The Ungendered Self: Sex Reassignment, the Third Gender, and Gender Fluidity in India