Staging Politics : Power and Performance in Asia and Africa.
Title:
Staging Politics : Power and Performance in Asia and Africa.
Author:
Strauss, Julia C.
ISBN:
9780857717023
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (264 pages)
Series:
International Library of Political Studies
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction - Julia Strauss and Donal B. Cruise O'Brien -- 1 Show and State in Senegal: Play-acting on the Threshold of Power - Donal B. Cruise O'Brien -- Trials -- 2 'In the Name of the People': the 'People's Court' and the Iraqi Revolution (1958-1960) - Charles Tripp -- 3 Accusing Counterrevolutionaries: Bureaucracy and Theatre in the Revolutionary People's Republic of China (1950-1957) - Julia C. Strauss -- 4 The Politics of Performance: Gandhi's Trial Read as Theatre - Sudipta Kavinraj -- Elections and Leadership -- 5 Kerekou the Chameleon, Master of Myth - Patrick Claffey -- 6 'Blue Marches': Public Performance and Political Turnover in Senegal - Vincent Foucher -- 7 Putting on a Show and Electoral Fortunes in Taiwan's Multi-Party Elections - Dafydd Fell -- 8 Political Theatre in the 2003 Cambodian Elections: State, Democracy and Conciliation in Historical Perspective - Steve Heder -- 9 Dalit Processions: Street Politics and Democratization in India - Nicolas Jaoul -- 10 State Power, Political Theatre and Reinvention of the Pro-Democracy Movement in Hong Kong: The March on 1 July 2003 - Agnes Shuk-mei Ku -- 11 Watching the Watchers: The Spectacle of Civil Society in the Phillipines - Eva-Lotta E. Hedman -- Afterword: The Heisenberg Principle of Political Performance - Joseph W. Esherick -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.
Abstract:
This fresh and original study analyses how power presents itself in dramatic performance in these two increasingly economically and politically important continents. _x000D_ _x000D_ Emotion and politics play a hugely important role in the politics of Asia and Africa but, as this book sets out, too much of western political research into the subject concentrates on apparent deficiencies - on the weakness of institutions, defects in the bureaucracy or markets, poor management of elections, absent judicial autonomy. Viewing political performance through Western eyes in this way - where politics is primarily about the naked pursuit of power and interests - can lead to a misunderstanding of how politics actually works in Africa and Asia, where process plays a far more important role. Thus performance, drama and emotion are far more integral to political outcome there than in the West. By concentrating on this new perspective the authors, each a recognised specialist in one or more states in Asia and Africa, avoid this trap and offer a coherent picture of the impact political performance has on the culture and politics of these societies and how they function.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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