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Varieties of Russian Activism: State-Society Contestation in Everyday Life
by John P. Burgess Jeremy Morris Regina Smyth Anna Zhelnina Katie L. Stewart Madeline McCann Carola Neugebauer Irina Shevtsova Daniela Zupan Irina Meyer-Olimpieva Katherine Hitchcock Anna A. Dekalchuk Ivan S. Grigoriev Eleonora Minaeva Jan Matti Dollbaum Guzel Yusupova Elena Sirotkina Andrei SemenovDespite decades under Putin's rule, it is too simplistic to assert that authoritarianism in Russia has eliminated activism, especially in relation to everyday life. Instead, we must build an awareness of diverse efforts to mobilize citizens to better understand how activism is shaped by and, in turn, shapes the regime. Varieties of Russian Activism focuses on a broad range of collective actions addressing issues from labor organizing to housing renovation, religion, electoral politics, minority language rights, and urban planning. Contributors draw attention to significant forms of grassroots politics that have not received sufficient attention in scholarship or that deserve fresh examination. The volume shows that Russians find novel ways to redress everyday problems and demand new services. Together, these essays interrogate what kinds of practices can be defined as activism in a fast-changing, politically volatile society. An engaging collection, Varieties of Russian Activism unites leading scholars in the common aim of approaching the embeddedness of civic activism in the conditions of everyday life, connectedness, and rising society-state expectations.
Venezuela – Dimensions of the Crisis: A Perspective on Democratic Backsliding (Contributions to Political Science)
by Wolfgang Muno Miguel Angel Latouche Alexandra GerickeThe book is devoted to the subject of Venezuela's politics and the different dimensions of its longstanding crisis, with various researchers exchanging ideas on the current problems affecting the country. It is the first comprehensive overview on the dimensions of Venezuela’s current crisis written in English, thus filling an important research gap. Especially the participation of international, well-known scholars make it a global enterprise. The book covers historical and theoretical facts surrounding the case of Venezuela and also focuses on the parties and actors that play decisive roles in the conflict. Subjects include the military, public administration, ideology, the opposition, the party landscape along with its crisis and Venezuela's oil policy. Furthermore the book touches upon international and regional aspects: Venezuela's diplomatic relations with the EU, the USA, Cuba and Colombia, respectively. The volume addresses a wider audience, such as scholars on Latin American and especially Venezuelan Politics, International Relations, as well as an interested public, including journalists and politicians.
Vereinbarkeit und Schwangerschaft: Psychische Belastung durch Antizipation? (essentials)
by Okka Zimmermann Lina KolonkoSchwangerschaft sowie Vereinbarkeit von Beruf und Familie werden in der Soziologie in den letzten Dekaden verstärkt sozialwissenschaftlich erforscht, bisher jedoch nicht zusammengebracht. Die Studie arbeitet daher heraus, dass bereits in und vor der Schwangerschaft die grundlegenden Weichenstellungen für Vereinbarkeit gestellt und verhandelt werden; dabei kann die Antizipation von Problemen und Konflikten eine große psychische Belastung darstellen.
Verfahrensprivilegierung aus Gründen des Gemeinwohls: Eine rechtsvergleichende, systematisierende Betrachtung deutscher und französischer verwaltungsverfahrensrechtlicher Regelungen am Beispiel eines Netzboosters (Schriftenreihe des Instituts für Klimaschutz, Energie und Mobilität)
by Ilka DörrfußDiese Arbeit beleuchtet die verfahrensrechtliche Förderung von klimaschutzfreundlichen Projekten, die dem besonders dringenden Infrastrukturausbaubedarf abhelfen können. Dazu untersucht die Autorin die im deutschen und französischen Recht bestehenden Verfahrensprivilegierungen aus Gründen des um daraus Schlüsse für eine Verbesserung der Gesetzgebung zu ziehen. Im Mittelpunkt der Betrachtung steht das im Rahmen einer Novelle zum Energiewirtschaftsgesetz im Jahr 2019 geregelte Verfahren zur Genehmigung sogenannter Netzbooster. Dies sind große Batteriespeicher, die Schwankungen im Stromnetz kurzfristig ausgleichen sollen. Von Bedeutung sind Netzbooster nicht zuletzt im Zusammenhang mit dem Ausbau der Windenergie. Der Band analysiert und systematisiert mittelbare und unmittelbare Verfahrensprivilegierungen im Umwelt- und Planungsrecht und weist auf Handlungsspielräume und Nachbesserungsmöglichkeiten für den Gesetzgeber hin. Den Schwerpunkt im französischen Recht legt die Autorin auf die Commission nationale du débat public (CNDP) und die von ihr organisierte Öffentliche Debatte ( débat public) sowie auf das beschleunigte Enteignungsverfahren aus Gründen des Gemeinwohls ( L'expropriation pour cause d'utilité publique en extrême urgence). Der Rechtsvergleich liefert Grundlagen für eine Reformdiskussion.
Vertical
by Cody GoodfellowA group of urbex explorers breaking into the world&’s tallest skyscraper in Moscow grapple with dangers from all sides in this pulse-pounding cinematic thriller for readers of Gregg Hurwitz and Patrick Hoffman.Michael Foster, Cam Buckley and Maddie Acosta – all former activists in the infamous urbex crew Les Furies. Together they scaled buildings, broke into the spaces no-one else could, and chased a rush that still haunts them. Now though, Michael is stuck recovering from an injury, coding in a dead-end start-up, But Les Furies cannot hide forever. A journalist has uncovered Michael&’s identity and he is being sent anonymous videos of his time in the crew. When he discovers that Cam and Maddie are planning on reuniting the crew one last time, to scale the Korova Tower in Moscow, he is sceptical. But the tower has never been scaled before. Breaking into the world&’s tallest building on Russia Day is too good an opportunity to pass him by. But Michael is about to discover that the vertical city has another purpose, one far more sinister than he could have imagined, and this one final ride for Les Furies might well be the last thing any of them ever do.
Verwaltungswissenschaft: Band 1: Theoretische und methodische Grundlagen
by Eberhard BohneDas Buch bietet eine Einführung in die Verwaltungswissenschaft. Das Buch richtet sich an Studierende aller Fachrichtungen, die sich mit Problemen der öffentlichen Verwaltung befassen, sowie an alle Angehörigen von Verwaltungsberufen innerhalb und außerhalb des öffentlichen Dienstes.
Verwaltungswissenschaft: Band 2: Grundzüge der öffentlichen Verwaltung in Deutschland
by Eberhard Bohne Christian BauerDas Lehrbuch enthält den Besonderen Teil der Verwaltungswissenschaft und knüpft an Bd. 1 mit dem Allgemeinen Teil an. Das Lehrbuch gibt einen systematischen, interdisziplinären Überblick über Aufgaben, Handlungsformen und Organisation, den Öffentlichen Dienst sowie über das Finanz- und Haushaltswesen der öffentlichen Verwaltung in Deutschland. Ausgehend von dem Rollenverhältnis des Bürgers gegenüber der öffentlichen Verwaltung, stellt das Lehrbuch die Haupttypen der öffentlichen Verwaltung dar – Polizei und Ordnungsverwaltung, Wirtschaftsaufsicht, Umweltaufsicht, Leistungsverwaltung, Infrastrukturverwaltung und Ko-Produktion öffentlicher Leistungen durch Bürger und öffentliche Verwaltung. Die Darstellung verbindet eine ökonomische, politische und rechtliche Perspektive. Bd. 1 und 2 bilden zusammen ein umfassendes, systematisches Kompendium der Verwaltungswissenschaft für Studium, Lehre und Praxis.
Victorious in Defeat: The Life and Times of Chiang Kai-shek, China, 1887-1975
by Alexander V. PantsovAn extensively researched, comprehensive biography of Chinese Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek, one of the twentieth century&’s most powerful and controversial figures Chiang Kai-shek (1887–1975) led the Republic of China for almost fifty years, starting in 1926. He was the architect of a new, republican China, a hero of the Second World War, and a faithful ally of the United States. Simultaneously a Christian and a Confucian, Chiang dreamed of universal equality yet was a perfidious and cunning dictator responsible for the deaths of over 1.5 million innocent people. This critical biography is based on Chiang Kai-shek&’s unpublished diaries, his extensive personal files from the Russian archives, and the Russian files of his relatives, associates, and foes. Alexander V. Pantsov sheds new light on the role played by the Russians in Chiang&’s rise to power in the 1920s and throughout his political career—and indeed the Russian influence on the Chinese revolutionary movement as a whole—as well as on Chiang&’s complex relationship with top officials of the United States. It is a detailed portrait of a man who ranks with Stalin, Roosevelt, Hitler, Churchill, and Gandhi as leaders who shaped our world.
Vielfalt in der öffentlichen Verwaltung: Strategien und Konzepte für ein wirksames Diversity Management in Kommunen, Ländern und Bund
by John Meister Matthias HörmeyerDieses Buch zeigt, wie Diversity Management in der öffentlichen Verwaltung gelingt und Vielfalt in Kommunen, Ländern und Bund erfolgreich gefördert wird. Die öffentliche Verwaltung steht vor zahlreichen Herausforderungen: Demografischer Wandel, Arbeitskräftemangel, Klimawandel, Digitalisierung, Krisenbewältigungen, veränderte Ansprüche der Gesellschaft. Eine zeitgemäße Antwort darauf ist Diversity Management. Mit Diversity kann sich die öffentliche Verwaltung zukunftsorientiert verändern. Sie kann attraktive Arbeitgeberin sein, empathischer auf die Bedürfnisse der Bürger*innen eingehen und den Herausforderungen der Zukunft besser begegnen. Renommierte Fachbeitragsautor*innen zeigen, dass Diversity wichtige Bausteine liefert, um die erforderliche Handlungsfähigkeit der öffentlichen Verwaltung nachhaltig zu sichern. Dazu werden vielfältige Konzepte, Ideen, Praxisbeispiele und Erfahrungsberichte vorgestellt, wie die öffentliche Verwaltung neue und innovative Wege gehen kann, um Diversity Management erfolgreich umzusetzen.Mit Beiträgen von: Paula Lina AuksutatSarina BadafrasBelma BekosCigdem BernIsabel CollienSonja DudekIrina EckardtDr. Klaus EffingStefan Fuerst Julia GöpelProf. Dr. Regine GramlAna-Cristina GrohnertMarc GroßInes HansenTessa HillermannMatthias Hörmeyer (Hrsg.)Hans W. JablonskiKathleen JägerJana JanzePeter JanzeJan KlumbIbrahim KöranAnika KrellmannEdwin MeierJohn Meister (Hrsg.)Sabine MeisterBaris ÖnesZehra ÖztürkMelanie PetersonMaria PozderGabriel RathMeike ReuterAlice RittgerodtMagdalena RoglJochen SchiffmannRouven-Alexander SlabikMagdalena WeißGülcan Yoksulabakan-ÜstüayChristian Zierau
Vienna: How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World
by Richard CockettHow can one European capital be responsible for most of the West&’s intellectual and cultural achievements in the twentieth century? Viennese ideas saturate the modern world. From California architecture to Hollywood Westerns, modern advertising to shopping malls, orgasms to gender confirmation surgery, nuclear fission to fitted kitchens—every aspect of our history, science, and culture is in some way shaped by Vienna. The city of Freud, Wittgenstein, Mahler, and Klimt was the melting pot at the heart of a vast metropolitan empire. But with the Second World War and the rise of fascism, the dazzling coteries of thinkers who squabbled, debated, and called Vienna home dispersed across the world, where their ideas continued to have profound impact. Richard Cockett gives us the entirety of this extraordinary story. Tracing Vienna&’s rich intellectual history from psychoanalysis to Reaganomics, Cockett encompasses everything from the communist rebels of Red Vienna to the neoliberal economists of the Austrian School. This is the panoramic account of how one city made the modern world—and how we all remain inescapably Viennese.
Vietnam’s Dissidents: Political Dissonance in the Age of Global Capitalism and Coloniality
by Susann PhamThis book is the first ethnography on Vietnam’s contemporary dissident movement. As a country that became known and is still remembered as one of the last remnants of Communist revolutions, Vietnam has managed to lift itself from one of the poorest war-torn post-colonies to one of the fastest growing market economies in Southeast Asia. Yet, while holding on to the legacy of a communist-led liberation movement, the present-day Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) finds itself subject to political challenges from below. In recent years, dissident voices critical of the party-state's malgovernance over social, economic and environmental issues have mushroomed across classes, generations and provinces. Based on extensive ethnographic data, this book explores distinct political practices and political ideas of Vietnam's dissidents. It examines different anti-capitalist and anti-authoritarian practices of democracy, labour, peasant and religious activists and reveals that anti-capitalist and anti-authoritarian practices are—at times—motivated by nationalist, anti-communist and statist ideas and ideologies. Understanding this dissonance between political practices and political ideas within the context of global capitalism and coloniality lies at the heart of this book.
Viewing Velocities: Time in Contemporary Art
by Marcus VerhagenContemporary art and the culture of speedHow have artists responded to our market-driven, tech-enabled culture of speed? Viewing Velocities explores a contemporary art scene caught in the gears of 24/7 capitalism. It looks at artists who embrace the high-octane experience economy and others who are closer to the slow movement. Some of the most compelling artworks addressing the cadences of contemporary work and leisure play on distinct, even contradictory conceptions of time. From Danh Vo's relics to Moyra Davey's photographs of dust-covered belongings, from Roman Ondak's queuing performers and Susan Hiller's outdoor sleepers to Maria Eichhorn's art strike and Ruth Ewan's giant reconstruction of the French revolutionary calendar, artists have drawn out aspects of the present temporal order that are familiar to the point of near-invisibility, while outlining other, more liberating ways of conceiving, organising and experiencing time.Marcus Verhagen builds on the work of theorists Jonathan Crary, Hartmut Rosa and Jacques Rancière to trace lines of insurgent art that recast struggles over time and history in novel and revealing terms.
Violence against Women in and beyond Conflict: The Coloniality of Violence (Gender in a Global/Local World)
by Julia Carolin SachsederViolence against Women in and beyond Conflict explores the processes and structures that underlie sexual violence and internal displacement in armed conflict, utilizing extensive ethnographic research to provide cutting-edge insights. The author argues that the key to understanding violence against women lies at the intersection of transnational capital, race, and gender – that not only contribute to its production but also to its persistence. The book uses the Colombian armed conflict as the primary case study but develops a broader framework for theorizing the relationship between the global political economy, the history of coloniality, and intersectional constructions of gender and race with regard to conflict and violence. It offers an understanding of violence against women as not isolated from, but part and a symptom of, a larger system of political, social, and economic inequality that is rooted in colonialism, and exploited and exacerbated by transnational capital relations. The author also shows how (post)colonial power asymmetries, the state, and other non-state actors, most prominently paramilitaries, are involved in this relationship of violence. The book highlights the implications for meaningful and sustainable peace in post-conflict contexts. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of international relations, gender studies, and conflict studies; as well as policymakers, (non)governmental organizations, and practitioners interested in conflict and security.
Violence and Peace in Sacred Texts: Interreligious Perspectives
by Helen Paynter Maria PowerThis volume brings together 11 experts from a range of religious backgrounds, to consider how each tradition has interpreted matters of violence and peace in relation to its sacred text. The traditions covered are Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam and Sikhism. The role of religion in conflict, war, and the creation of peaceful settlements has attracted much academic attention, including considerations of the interpretation of violence in sacred texts. This collection breaks new ground by bringing multiple faiths into conversation with one another with specific regard to the handling of violence and peace in sacred texts. This combination of close attention to text and expansive scope of religious inclusion is the first of its kind.
Violence and Representation in the Arab Uprisings (The Global Middle East #21)
by Benoît ChallandProviding a longue durée perspective on the Arab uprisings of 2011, Benoît Challand narrates the transformation of citizenship in the Arab Middle East, from a condition of latent citizenship in the colonial and post-independence era to the revolutionary dynamics that stimulated democratic participation. Considering the parallel histories of citizenship in Yemen and Tunisia, Challand develops innovative theories of violence and representation that view cultural representations as calls for a decentralized political order and democratic accountability over the security forces. He argues that a new collective imaginary emerged in 2011 when the people represented itself as the only legitimate power able to decide when violence ought to be used to protect all citizens from corrupt power. Shedding light upon uprisings in Yemen and Tunisia, but also elsewhere in the Middle East, this book offers deeper insights into conceptions of violence, representation, and democracy.
Violence in Extreme Conditions: Ethical Challenges in Military Practice
by Eric-Hans Kramer Tine MolendijkAs an organization operating under extreme conditions, the military is often confronted with destructive behavior from individuals, organizations, and societies. Written by experts from a variety of disciplines, this open access book reflects on confrontations with violence under extreme conditions and the various challenges that arise.By examining real first-hand accounts of soldiers’ deployments, the contributions shed new light on the multifaceted and sometimes hidden dynamics of destructive violent behavior and offer an ethical reflection on military practices. In addition, they address topics such as moral decision-making in violent contexts, military trauma, organizational change, and military ethics education.The interdisciplinary exploration of these topics has been the primary focus of Désirée Verweij, who was the Chair of Military Ethics at the Netherlands Defence Academy from 2008 to 2021. The contributions in this book are written in honor of her scholarly achievements and help to ensure that these important issues continue to receive attention. The book will appeal to scholars of military studies, organizational studies and military ethics, and to professionals and decisionmakers in military organizations.
Violence in Families: Integrating Research into Practice (Advances in Preventing and Treating Violence and Aggression)
by Peter SturmeyThis book examines the nature, prevention, and treatment of violence within families. It reviews the definition of contemporary families, emphasizing various structures, including nuclear families, reconstituted families, gay and lesbian families, and recent immigrant families. In addition, the volume describes the nature of and risk factors for family violence from the perspectives of both victims (e.g., infants, children, seniors) and perpetrators (e.g., adolescent family members, women). It identifies the implications and explores strategies for prevention, treatment, and services. In addition, the volume directly addresses practice and evidence-based interventions for individual perpetrators, family interventions, interventions for victims and systemwide interventions (e.g., those involving the courts, police, and national policy). Chapters review the best available quality evidence from randomized controlled trials, systematic reviews, meta-analyses, research syntheses, and evidence-based recommendations from expert panels and government agencies. Case studies illustrate the application of evidence-based practice to violence within the family to demonstrate the effectiveness of the intervention. Topics featured in this book include:Definition and conceptualization of family.Definition and measurement of as well as risk factors for family violence.Family violence in various traditional and nontraditional families.Prevention strategies as well as Individual and family treatments for perpetrators and victims of family violence.Social policy and legal interventions for family violence. Violence in Families is a must-have resource for researchers, professors, and graduate students as well as clinicians, therapists, and other professionals in developmental psychology, family studies, forensic psychology, criminology/criminal justice, public health, psychotherapy/counseling, psychiatry, social work, educational policy and politics, health psychology, nursing, and behavioral therapy/rehabilitation.
Violence of Democracy: Interparty Conflict in South India
by Ruchi ChaturvediIn Violence of Democracy Ruchi Chaturvedi tracks the rise of India’s divisive politics through close examination of decades-long confrontations in Kerala between members of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and supporters of the Hindu nationalist Rashtriya Swayam Sevak Sangh and the Bharatiya Janata Party. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and extensive archival research, Chaturvedi investigates the unique character of the conflict between the party left and the Hindu right. This conflict, she shows, defies explanations centering religious, caste, or ideological differences. It offers instead new ways of understanding how quotidian political competition can produce antagonistic majoritarian communities. Rival political parties mobilize practices of disbursing care and aggressive masculinity in their struggle for electoral and popular power, a process intensified by a criminal justice system that reproduces rather than mitigating violence. Chaturvedi traces these dynamics from the late colonial period to the early 2000s, illuminating the broader relationships between democratic life, divisiveness, and majoritarianism.
Violence, Discourse, and Politics in China’s Uyghur Region: The Terroristization of Xinjiang (Interventions)
by Pablo A. Rodríguez-MerinoThis book investigates how Uyghur-related violent conflict and Uyghur ethnic minority identity, religion, and the Xinjiang region, more broadly, became constituted as a ‘terrorism’ problem for the Chinese state. Building on securitization theory, Critical Terrorism Studies (CTS), and the scholarly definitional debate on terrorism, it develops the concept of terroristization as a critical analytical framework for the study of historical processes of threat construction. Investigating the violent events reported in Xinjiang since the early 1980s, the evolving discursive patterns used by the Chinese state to make sense of violent incidents, and the crackdown policies that the official terrorism discourse has legitimized, the book demonstrates how the securitization, and later terroristization, of Xinjiang and the Uyghurs, is the result of a discursive and political choice of the Chinese state. The author reveals the contingent and unstable nature of such construction, and how it problematizes the inevitability of the rationale behind China’s ‘war on terror’, that has prescribed a brutal crackdown as the most viable approach to governing the tensions that have historically characterized China’s rule over the Turkic Muslim ethnic minorities in Xinjiang. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of the politics of contemporary China, security and ethnic minority issues, International Relations and Security, as well as those adopting discursive approaches to the study of security, notably those within the critical security and terrorism studies fields.
Violent America: The Dynamics of Identity Politics in a Multiracial Society
by Ariane Chebel d'AppolloniaIn Violent America, Ariane Chebel d'Appollonia counterintuitively analyzes why and how various ethnoracial groups proactively and instrumentally use different forms of violence to achieve their goals. Combining a historical analysis spanning the centuries with an examination of contemporary problems, she considers how and why ethnoracial groups can be both perpetrators and victims of violence, why some minority groups react differently to violence in comparable situations, and what the consequences are today for politics in both America and Europe.Violent America thus explores the effects of physical and discursive violence on the ways in which ethnoracial groups define themselves. Chebel d'Appollonia argues that the use of ethnoracial violence has been and remains an effective identity strategy by which all ethnoracial groups are able to integrate themselves into the mainstream of American society. She provides an alternative way of understanding the complex relationship between migrant phobia, multiethnic grievances, and intergroup conflicts in America.
Visions of Humanity: Historical Cultural Practices since 1850 (Explorations in Culture and International History #11)
by Sönke Kunkel, Jessica C. E. Gienow-Hecht, and Sebastian JobsThis book offers a critical reflection of the historical genesis, transformation, and problématique of “humanity” in the transatlantic world, with a particular eye on cultural representations. “Humanity,” the essays show, was consistently embedded in networks of actors and cultural practices, and its meanings have evolved in step with historical processes such as globalization, cultural imperialism, the transnationalization of activism, and the spread of racism and nationalism. Visions of Humanity applies a historical lens on objects, sounds, and actors to provide a more nuanced understanding of the historical tensions and struggles involved in constructing, invoking, and instrumentalizing the “we” of humanity.
Visions of Inequality: From the French Revolution to the End of the Cold War
by Branko MilanovicA sweeping and original history of how economists across two centuries have thought about inequality, told through portraits of six key figures.“How do you see income distribution in your time, and how and why do you expect it to change?” That is the question Branko Milanovic imagines posing to six of history's most influential economists: François Quesnay, Adam Smith, David Ricardo, Karl Marx, Vilfredo Pareto, and Simon Kuznets. Probing their works in the context of their lives, he charts the evolution of thinking about inequality, showing just how much views have varied among ages and societies. Indeed, Milanovic argues, we cannot speak of “inequality” as a general concept: any analysis of it is inextricably linked to a particular time and place.Visions of Inequality takes us from Quesnay and the physiocrats, for whom social classes were prescribed by law, through the classic nineteenth-century treatises of Smith, Ricardo, and Marx, who saw class as a purely economic category driven by means of production. It shows how Pareto reconceived class as a matter of elites versus the rest of the population, while Kuznets saw inequality arising from the urban-rural divide. And it explains why inequality studies were eclipsed during the Cold War, before their remarkable resurgence as a central preoccupation in economics today.Meticulously extracting each author’s view of income distribution from their often voluminous writings, Milanovic offers an invaluable genealogy of the discourse surrounding inequality. These intellectual portraits are infused not only with a deep understanding of economic theory but also with psychological nuance, reconstructing each thinker’s outlook given what was unknowable to them within their historical contexts and methodologies.
Visual Methods for Social Justice in Education
by Laura AzzaritoThis book makes a case for the usefulness of visual research methods for advancing a social justice agenda in education. The author aims to provide education researchers with a wide range of qualitative visual research tools to invoke different stories, voices, embodiments, and experiences of individuals from marginalized communities; to advance emancipatory research projects; to embrace interdisciplinary knowledge-building; and to counter-narrate Western forms of knowledge, cultures, and values for the reimagining of education for social change. It draws attention to the importance of visual methods in today’s neoliberal landscape of education to speak back to mainstream research and practices, especially when research participants lack words to describe, express, and represent what it means to be impacted by oppression and marginalization.
Visual Politics in the Global South (Political Campaigning and Communication)
by Anastasia Veneti Maria RoviscoThe role of the visual in politics is gaining momentum in scholarly work concerned with the current social media landscape. It is widely acknowledged that the production, dissemination and consumption of visual products in the Global South is powerfully shaped by geo-politics and a power dynamics in which the Global North dominates the South (the cultural imperialism argument). However, scant attention has been paid to theoretical, methodological, and empirically grounded approaches to visual politics produced by scholars working in the Global South. Little is known about the ways in which scholarship in the Global South might challenge and resist western approaches to the study of the visual. Against this background, this project aims to examine visual politics in the Global South through theoretically driven, and empirically grounded case studies, which focus on the role of the visual in formal politics (e.g., political campaigns, the relation between state and citizens) and public and everyday politics (e.g., social movements, activism, grassroots politics, civil society initiatives). This volume examines visual politics in the Global South through theoretically driven, and empirically grounded case studies, which focus on the role of the visual in formal politics (e.g., political campaigns, the relation between state and citizens) and public and everyday politics. It will be of interest to both researchers and students interested in the study of visual politics from various disciplinary lens (media and communication, anthropology, politics, and sociology).
Visual Rhetorics of Communist Romania: Life Under the Totalitarian Gaze
by Adriana CordaliVisual Rhetorics of Communist Romania: Life under the Totalitarian Gaze offers personal accounts and theoretical insight into the Cold War era when little information about life beyond the Iron Curtain could transpire to the West. Adriana Cordali develops a unique visual rhetorical theory for analyzing communist totalitarian propaganda and the resistance to it, and reveals the deliberate, strategic in/visibilities the rhetoric of power engaged in. Building upon the local history, ideology, and politics of the regime imposed after WWII, she identifies propaganda’s rhetorical features, visual tropes, and symbols and examines striking photographs and print materials from Ceaușescu’s regime (1966-1989) and the time of regime change (1989-1990), as well as an award-winning Romanian film that depicts women’s life at the time. Converging visual rhetoric and culture with history and politics, Visual Rhetorics of Communist Romania is a first book of this kind and will interest readers of rhetoric and communication, visual rhetoric, and political discourse in the region.