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Ling Yong-hua - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

Mabel Berezin - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • cultural form and Political Meaning state subsidized theater ideology and the language of style in fascist italy
    American Journal of Sociology, 1994
    Co-Authors: Mabel Berezin
    Abstract:

    The paradigm linking Meaning and content has shaped the empirical focus of cultural focus of cultural analysis. The pattern of state theatrical subsidy within fascist Italy challenges the assumption that narrative content is the principal vehicle of Meaning. By shifting the unit of analysis from the text of plays to discourses about theatrical production, a rhetoric of appropriation and reappropriation emerges between regime bureaucrats and cultural entrepreneurs that suggest that theatrical form, and not theatrical content, contained fascist Meaning. This finding is extended to posit that the divorce between form and content that characterized the fascist theater also distinguished fascism from liberal democracy.

Didier Chabanet - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • When the unemployed challenge the European Union : the European marches as a mode of externalization of protest
    2010
    Co-Authors: Didier Chabanet
    Abstract:

    The movement widely known as the European marches against unemployment, job insecurity and social exclusion—first demonstrated its mobilization capacity in Amsterdam on June 14, 1997, when almost 50,000 people turned out against the holding of the European Summit. What made the event even more remarkable was the presence of demonstrators from many countries. Nor was the event's impact short-lived: in June 1999 marches took place involving some 30,000 people in protests against the European Summit in Cologne. This chapter will first examine the conditions for the emergence of a most unexpected movement. It attempts to show how a small number of entrepreneurs, despite the weak support of the institutional representative frameworks, gave collective and Political Meaning to the dissatisfaction of the unemployed. We will also show that the movement was able, by means of the “march” format, to make itself visible to the media and, more generally, to public opinion, both of which were then used as resources. We will then identify the strategic duality that permeates the movement, leading to a new mode of Europeanization of action: “the externalization of protest.”

  • When the unemployed challenge the EU : the European marches as a mode of externalization of protest
    Mobilization (San Diego Calif.), 2008
    Co-Authors: Didier Chabanet
    Abstract:

    This article examines the conditions for the emergence of a most unexpected movement. It traces how a small number of leaders, in the context of weak support of the institutional representative frameworks, gave collective and Political Meaning to the dissatisfaction of the unemployed. Sticking to the European agenda, the movement, by means of the "march" format, was able to make itself visible to the media and, more generally, to public opinion, both of which it then used as resources. I identify the strategic orientations that ran through the movement and whose articulation led to a new mode of the Europeanization of action, which I call "the externalization of protest." The article concludes by identifying some of the effects induced by the marches, and suggests the incapacity of the mobilization to survive to the global justice movement, although it was one of its first expressions.

Sherene Seikaly - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • A Protest of the Poor: On the Political Meaning of the People
    The Aesthetics and Politics of Global Hunger, 2017
    Co-Authors: Sherene Seikaly
    Abstract:

    In this chapter, Seikaly engages an uprising against neoliberal reform on18–19 January 1977 in Egypt. By mapping the role that food played in protestors’ and government strategies and demands, she examines how basic needs function as a trigger of social upheaval as well as a vehicle of Political containment. Seikaly explores how government officials, journalists, and protestors defined and ultimately contained the “poor” and the “hungry.” By attending to how protestors narrate and represent themselves and the tools they use to make their claims, this chapter troubles the construction of the “people.”

Roberto Beneduce - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • “Madness and Despair are a Force”: Global Mental Health, and How People and Cultures Challenge the Hegemony of Western Psychiatry
    Culture Medicine and Psychiatry, 2019
    Co-Authors: Roberto Beneduce
    Abstract:

    The author suggests to consider some important hidden connections in Global Mental Health (GMH) discourse and interventions, above all the Political Meaning of suffering and symptoms, the power of psychiatric diagnostic categories (both Western and traditional) to name and to occult at once other conflicts, and the implicit criticism expressed by so-called local healing knowledge and its epistemologies. These issues, by emphasizing the importance to explore other ontologies, help to understand the perplexity and resistance that GMH and its agenda meet among many scholars and professionals, who denounce the risks of reproducing and globalizing Western hegemonic values concerning health, illness, and healing.