Culture, catastrophe, and rhetoric : the texture of political action /: the texture of political action. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Robert Hariman, Ralph Cintron.
• Editors: Hariman, Robert; Cintron, Ralph
• Contents: List of Illustrations; Preface <a href="http://www.berghahnbooks.com/downloads/intros/HarimanCulture_intro.pdf" target="_blank"><img align="left" border="0" onmouseout="this.src='/img/icon_pdf.png'" onmouseover="this.src='/img/icon_pdf2.png'" src="/img/icon_pdf.png" /> 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
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: New York : Berghahn Books
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 320.01; Political science -- Philosophy; Disasters -- Political aspects
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781782387473
• Related ISBNs: 9781782387466
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; item not viewed.
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