Between Resistance and Revolution: Cultural Politics and Social Protest - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0813524164 ISBN 13: 9780813524160

Publisher: Rutgers University Press, 1997

Synopsis

Peasants in India hugging trees to protest logging, Brazilian feminists marching to impeach a president, Okinawan television comedians joke-starting ethnic activity. All are instances of social protest that exist in the charged territory between the cataclysmic upheaval of revolutionary war and the everyday acts of private resistance. Yet these movements "in between" resistance and revolution have remained invisible to scholars of politics, culture, and society. Leading scholars in anthropology, political science, history, sociology, and ethnomusicology examine dissent and direct action in Australia, Brazil, Germany, Colombia, India, Korea, Peru, and the United States and demonstrate the importance of looking beyond these poles of protest to the midways of mobilization.

The contributors are Nancy Abelmann, Sonia Alvarez, Arturo Escobar, Richard Fox, Faye Ginsburg, Ramachandra Guha, Ingrid Monson, Yoshinobu Ota, Orin Starn, and Nathan Stoltzfus.

About this title

About the Author

Richard Fox is professor of anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis and author of Gandhian Utopia: Experiments with Culture.

Orin Starn is assistant professor of cultural anthropology at Duke University and author of The Peru Reader: History, Culture and Politics.

Edition details

• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0813524164
• ISBN 13: 9780813524160
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288
• Editor: Fox Professor Richard G., Starn Orin