Performing Opposition

Author : Laura Lyytikainen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131708229X
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Performing Political Opposition in Russia written by Laura Lyytikainen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on fieldwork conducted in Moscow and St. Petersburg among the political opposition’s youth group Oborona (Defence), this ground-breaking work brings forward a multifaceted and colourful image of the life of political opposition activists in a restricted political environment. Existing studies on youth political activism in Russia have mainly dealt with the pro-Kremlin youth movements, such as Nashi, while youth opposition activism has been studied very little. Lyytikäinen contributes to this gap by showing how youth are also actively organizing against the current government and how Russian oppositional youth activist practices are diverse and constantly evolving. Theoretically this book contributes to discussions on activist identities, as well as to an understanding of social movements and protest by analysing political protests as social performances. The research illustrates how Soviet continuities and liberal ideas are entangled in Russian political activism to create new post-socialist political identities and practices. It also questions the idea of Russian democratization being tied to its totalitarian past, and that of western-type liberal democracy being the goal of this process. Instead, the book proposes that Russian political culture should be analysed on its own, and as an entanglement of various interacting systems of thought.

Author : Neil Blackadder
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Performing Opposition written by Neil Blackadder and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2003-11-30 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the protests of scandalized audience members against the first plays by such writers as Jarry, Synge, and Brecht, illuminating a multifaceted and largely overlooked aspect of modern theater history.

Author : Mitchell K. Hall
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 829 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Opposition to War [2 volumes] written by Mitchell K. Hall and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-01-04 with total page 829 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How have Americans sought peaceful, rather than destructive, solutions to domestic and world conflict? This two-volume set documents peace and antiwar movements in the United States from the colonial era to the present. Although national leaders often claim to be fighting to achieve peace, the real peace seekers struggle against enormous resistance to their message and have often faced persecution for their efforts. Despite a well-established pattern of being involved in wars, the United States also has a long tradition of citizens who made extensive efforts to build and maintain peaceful societies and prevent the destructive human and material costs of war. Unarmed activists have most consistently upheld American values at home. Opposition to War: An Encyclopedia of U.S. Peace and Antiwar Movements investigates this historical tradition of resistance to involvement in armed conflict—an especially important and relevant topic today as the nation has been mired in numerous military conflicts throughout most of the current century. The book examines a largely misunderstood and underappreciated minority of Americans who have committed themselves to finding peaceful resolutions to domestic and international conflicts—individuals who have proposed and conducted an array of practical and creative methods for peaceful change, from the transformation of individual behavior to the development of international governing and legal systems, for more than 250 years. Readers will learn how individuals working alone or organized into societies of various size have steadfastly campaigned to stop war, end the arms race, eliminate the underlying causes of war, and defend the civil liberties of Americans when wartime nationalism most threatens them.

Author : David A. Crockett
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1603443614
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Running Against the Grain: how Opposition Presidents Win the White House written by David A. Crockett and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some presidents enter office with an uphill climb in front of them: their political party represents a different governing philosophy than the dominant strain of the day. These, David A. Crockett says, are "opposition presidents." If they are, in a sense, out of step with their times, how do they ever get elected in the first place? In Running against the Grain: How Opposition Presidents Win the White House, Crockett employs historical comparisons to draw conclusions about what it takes for these candidates to win the office. He focuses on seven presidents in twelve elections: William Henry Harrison (1840) and Zachary Taylor (1848), Grover Cleveland (1884 and 1892) and Woodrow Wilson (1912 and 1916), Dwight Eisenhower (1952 and 1956) and Richard Nixon (1968 and 1972), and Bill Clinton (1992 and 1996). Crockett draws on the work of Stephen Skowronek and others in the tradition of American political development to establish the periodization for his study. Through a comparative analysis of victorious opposition candidates, Crockett finds explanations that transcend specific campaigns or even specific eras. He contends that, because the way one acquires the office may have an effect on the practice of leadership in the office, "running against the grain" has implications far beyond Election Day.

Author : Ludger Helms
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317970314
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Parliamentary Opposition in Old and New Democracies written by Ludger Helms and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previously published as a special issue of the Journal of Legislative Studies, this volume offers a broad comparative assessment of the many faces of parliamentary opposition in different political, legal and cultural settings. Issues of political opposition, and of parliamentary opposition in particular, are at the very heart of the study of democratic processes in different parts of the world. Written by leading scholars in the field, this book looks both at the core features of the parliamentary opposition itself and its role in the legislative and wider political process. This includes an inquiry into the manifold challenges that the parliamentary opposition in many countries has come to face in the more recent past, in particular the rise of different non-parliamentary opposition actors. The countries covered in this volume include the old democracies of the Anglo-Saxon world, continental Europe and Japan, and the new democracies and democratizing regimes in Central and Eastern Europe, Latin America and South Africa. Another chapter looks at the manifestations of parliamentary opposition within the multi-level system of the European Union

Author : Buddy Setianto
Publisher : BSK Capital
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 89 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book One year Jokowi Performance: KMP OPPOSITION PARTIES TARGETED 2 YEARS ENOUGH FOR JOKOWI written by Buddy Setianto and published by BSK Capital. This book was released on 2015-10-15 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since Joko Widodo-Jusuf Kalla (Jokowi-JK) won the presidential election at the end of 2014, many strong voice of the red and white coalition camp gives the target of 2 years for Jokowi-JK to prove his ability to lead the country. Target setting is certainly not just a mere disappointment emotion from the opposite camp who lost the presidential election, but let us peel facts and events that support the delivery of what the target of the red and white coalition camp. Obviously with the public clearly see and feel the impact of the strengthening of the USD in the global market are also hit this country, so the impact to the action of many layoffs everywhere, because the company no longer competitive because the raw materials are imported and the effects of the economy in general is slowing. The book examines the Indonesian macro economy and the world economy and its comparison with similar countries such as Brazil. Situation severe economic slowdown coupled with political turmoil either side of the cabinet, parliament, local governments ranging from communications that are not smooth, poor coordination, a bill that slow realization, the issue of corruption is still rampant. The problem that a lot of people's behaviour deviates such as violence, rape, paedophilia, the erosion of social discipline and nationalism and the general decline in the level of moral and civilized human behaviour. Plus the problem of ethnicity, religion, race, and intergroup (RAS) seen many cases of fights between villages, tribes who do not know the age, also began to increase in the intensity of the different movements in Islam. Not to mention the factors that influence the foreign countries in general may not be obvious, but if revealed to be very clear interference and colonialism in disguise. Here will be strong conflict within the government and who are potentially strong in the tackle lunge Jokowi.

Author : Jeffrey C. Alexander
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139452673
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Performance written by Jeffrey C. Alexander and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-05-04 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jeffrey C. Alexander brings together new and leading contributors to make a powerful and coherently argued case for a new direction in cultural sociology, one that focuses on the intersection between performance, ritual and social action. Performance has always been used by sociologists to understand the social world but this volume offers the first systematic analytical framework based on the performance metaphor to explain large-scale social and cultural processes. From September 11, to the Clinton/Lewinsky affair, to the role of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Social Performance draws on recent work in performative theory in the humanities and in cultural studies to offer a novel approach to the sociology of culture. Inspired by the theories of Austin, Derrida, Durkheim, Goffman, and Turner, this is a path-breaking volume that makes a major contribution to the field. It will appeal to scholars and students alike.

Author : Erika Fischer-Lichte
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415509688
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Performance and the Politics of Space written by Erika Fischer-Lichte and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection asks what's at stake when a theatrical space is created and when a performance takes place: under what circumstances the topology of theatre becomes political. It visits a politics of inclusion and exclusion, of distributions and placements, and of spatial appropriation and utopian concepts in theatre history and contemporary performance.

Author : Jessica Choppin Roney
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421415275
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Governed by a Spirit of Opposition written by Jessica Choppin Roney and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2014-12-15 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "To what extent did the American Revolution involve ordinary people? Historians as notable as Carl Becker and Edmund Morgan famously have asked this question or versions of it, but here Roney approaches it afresh by examining local governance and civic associations in Philadelphia, the largest colonial American city. How did popular participation in charity, schools, the militia, and informal banks prepare people to adopt radical ideas and take to the streets protesting against tyranny in the 1760s and 70s? Roney's GOVERNED BY A SPIRIT OF OPPOSITION will both be an important addition to the current literature on public life in early America, and also to the wider literature on urban governance in the British Atlantic in the eighteenth century. She sheds light on the powerful roles played by men acting in the political and constitutional circumstances of early Philadelphia leading up to the Revolution"--

Author : Elisabetta De Giorgi
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317200012
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Opposition Parties in European Legislatures written by Elisabetta De Giorgi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-03-09 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Democratic theory considers it fundamental for parties in government to be both responsive to their electorate and responsible to internal and international constraints. But recently these two roles have become more and more incompatible with Mair’s growing divide in European party systems between parties which claim to represent, but don’t deliver, and those which deliver, but are no longer seen to represent truer than ever. This book contains a qualitative and quantitative analysis of the behaviour of the opposition parties in eleven European democracies across Western and East Central Europe. Specifically, it investigates the parliamentary behaviour of the opposition parties, and shows that the party context is increasingly diverse. It demonstrates the emergence of two distinct types of opposition: one more cooperative, carried out by the mainstream parties (those with government aspirations), and one more adversarial focusing on government scrutiny rather than on policy alternatives (parties permanently excluded from power). It systematically and analytically explores the sources of their behaviour, whilst acknowledging that opposition is broader than its mere parliamentary behaviour. Finally, it considers the European agenda and the economic crisis as two possible intervening variables that might have an impact on the opposition parties’ behaviour and the government-opposition relations. As such, it responds to questions that are major concerns for the European democracies of the new millennium. This text will be of key interest to students and scholars of political parties, European politics, comparative politics and democracy.