Protest Cultures

Protest CulturesProtest is a ubiquitous and richly varied social phenomenon, one that finds expression not only in modern social movements and political organizations but also in grassroots initiatives, individual action, and creative works. It constitutes a distinct cultural domain, one whose symbolic content is regularly deployed by media and advertisers, among other actors. Yet within social movement scholarship, such cultural considerations have been

and how he responded to her death-Berman explores his efforts to hold on to Barbara precisely as she was letting go of life

They work as well for Christians and Moslems and Jews as for Buddhists

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‘Chinese Television and Soft Power Communication in Australia’ provides a systemic test of how successful/unsuccessful China’s soft power message projection is in terms of congruence between projected and received frames in Australia

Neroni explores why American audiences are so fascinated-even excited-by cinematic representations of violent women

but in securing alterity against cognitive assimilation instead

and this book demonstrates how a system of weights and measures

The authors examine play phenomena from four perspectives

are a group of former hunters who today see themselves as “keepers of reindeer” as they engage in ethnic tourism and exchange experiences with their Ewenki neighbors in Russian Siberia

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Among them are descendants of families who have been in the city for generations

It includes both theoretical discussions and case studies to highlight the tension between studies that locate Buddhist communities in regionally specific areas and those that highlight the translocal nature of an increasingly interconnected world