Constructing The Political Spectacle

Author : Murray Jacob Edelman
Publisher : Chicago : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226183978
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Constructing the Political Spectacle written by Murray Jacob Edelman and published by Chicago : University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thanks to the ready availability of political news today, informed citizens can protect and promote their own interests and the public interest more effectively. Or can they? Murray Edelman argues against this conventional interpretation of politics, one that takes for granted that we live in a world of facts and that people react rationally to the facts they know. In doing so, he explores in detail the ways in which the conspicuous aspects of the political scene are interpretations that systematically buttress established inequalities and interpretations already dominant political ideologies.

Author : Murray Edelman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226184013
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Art to Politics written by Murray Edelman and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Murray Edelman holds a unique and distinguished position in American political science. For decades one of the few serious scholars to question dominant rational-choice interpretations of politics, Edelman looked instead to the powerful influence of signs, spectacles, and symbols—of culture—on political behavior and political institutions. His first, now classic, book, The Symbolic Uses of Politics, created paths of inquiry in political science, communication studies, and sociology that are still being explored today. In this book, Edelman continues his quest to understand the influence of perception on the political process by turning to the role of art. He argues that political ideas, language, and actions cannot help but be based upon the images and narratives we take from literature, paintings, film, television, and other genres. Edelman believes art provides us with models, scenarios, narratives, and images we draw upon in order to make sense of political events, and he explores the different ways art can shape political perceptions and actions to both promote and inhibit diversity and democracy. "Elegantly written. . . . He brilliantly contends that art helps create the images from which opinion-molders and citizens construct the social realities of politics."—Choice "It is perhaps the freshness with which he puts his case that is what makes From Art to Politics, as well as his other works, so challenging and invigorating."—Philip Abbott, Review of Politics

Author : Guy Debord
Publisher : Bread and Circuses Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1617508306
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Society Of The Spectacle written by Guy Debord and published by Bread and Circuses Publishing. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Das Kapital of the 20th century,Society of the Spectacle is an essential text, and the main theoretical work of the Situationists. Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative. From its publication amid the social upheavals of the 1960's, in particular the May 1968 uprisings in France, up to the present day, with global capitalism seemingly staggering around in it’s Zombie end-phase, the volatile theses of this book have decisively transformed debates on the shape of modernity, capitalism, and everyday life in the late 20th century. This ‘Red and Black’ translation from 1977 is Introduced by Notting Hill armchair insurrectionary Tom Vague with a galloping time line and pop-situ verve, and given a more analytical over view by young upstart thinker Sam Cooper.

Author : Mabel Berezin
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 150172214X
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making the Fascist Self written by Mabel Berezin and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-18 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her examination of the culture of Italian fascism, Mabel Berezin focuses on how Mussolini's regime consciously constructed a nonliberal public sphere to support its political aims. Fascism stresses form over content, she believes, and the regime tried to build its political support through the careful construction and manipulation of public spectacles or rituals such as parades, commemoration ceremonies, and holiday festivities. The fascists believed they could rely on the motivating power of spectacle, and experiential symbols. In contrast with the liberal democratic notion of separable public and private selves, Italian fascism attempted to merge the public and private selves in political spectacles, creating communities of feeling in public piazzas. Such communities were only temporary, Berezin explains, and fascist identity was only formed to the extent that it could be articulated in a language of pre-existing cultural identities. In the Italian case, those identities meant the popular culture of Roman Catholicism and the cult of motherhood. Berezin hypothesizes that at particular historical moments certain social groups which perceive the division of public and private self as untenable on cultural grounds will gain political ascendance. Her hypothesis opens a new perspective on how fascism works.

Author : Murray Jacob Edelman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Political Language of the Helping Professions written by Murray Jacob Edelman and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Murray Jacob Edelman
Publisher : Urbana : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Symbolic Uses of Politics written by Murray Jacob Edelman and published by Urbana : University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1964 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Tamir Moustafa
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108334075
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Constituting Religion written by Tamir Moustafa and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-25 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most Muslim-majority countries have legal systems that enshrine both Islam and liberal rights. While not necessarily at odds, these dual commitments nonetheless provide legal and symbolic resources for activists to advance contending visions for their states and societies. Using the case study of Malaysia, Constituting Religion examines how these legal arrangements enable litigation and feed the construction of a 'rights-versus-rites binary' in law, politics, and the popular imagination. By drawing on extensive primary source material and tracing controversial cases from the court of law to the court of public opinion, this study theorizes the 'judicialization of religion' and the radiating effects of courts on popular legal and religious consciousness. The book documents how legal institutions catalyze ideological struggles, which stand to redefine the nation and its politics. Probing the links between legal pluralism, social movements, secularism, and political Islamism, Constituting Religion sheds new light on the confluence of law, religion, politics, and society. This title is also available as Open Access.

Author : Kathleen Hall Jamieson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195085532
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dirty Politics written by Kathleen Hall Jamieson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1993 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, Americans have become thoroughly disenchanted with political campaigns, especially with ads and speeches that bombard them with sensational images while avoiding significant issues. Now campaign analyst Kathleen Hall Jamieson provides an eye-opening look at the tactics used by political advertisers. Photos and line drawings.

Author : Simonetta Falasca-Zamponi
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520926153
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fascist Spectacle written by Simonetta Falasca-Zamponi and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This richly textured cultural history of Italian fascism traces the narrative path that accompanied the making of the regime and the construction of Mussolini's power. Simonetta Falasca-Zamponi reads fascist myths, rituals, images, and speeches as texts that tell the story of fascism. Linking Mussolini's elaboration of a new ruling style to the shaping of the regime's identity, she finds that in searching for symbolic means and forms that would represent its political novelty, fascism in fact brought itself into being, creating its own power and history. Falasca-Zamponi argues that an aesthetically founded notion of politics guided fascist power's historical unfolding and determined the fascist regime's violent understanding of social relations, its desensitized and dehumanized claims to creation, its privileging of form over ethical norms, and ultimately its truly totalitarian nature.

Author : Richard C. Box
Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780761912576
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Citizen Governance written by Richard C. Box and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1998-01-08 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on fundamental ideas about the relationship of citizens to the public sphere, Richard C Box presents a model of `citizen governance'. Recognizing the challenges in the community governance setting, he advocates rethinking the structure of local government and the roles of citizens, elected officials and public professionals in the twenty-first century. His model shifts a large part of the responsibility for local public policy from the professional and the elected official to the citizen. Citizens take part directly in creating and implementing policy, elected officials coordinate the policy process, and public professionnals facilitate citizen discourse, offering the knowledge of public practice needed for successful `citizen gover