Between Resistance and Revolution
Between Resistance and Revolution
Cultural Politics and Social Protest
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.
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.
Cultural politics and biological diversity: state, capital, and social movements in the Pacific coast of Colombia / Arturo Escobar
Passage from India / Richard G. Fox
Reweaving the fabric of collective action: social movements and challenges to "actually existing democracy" in Brazil / Sonia E. Alvarez
"From little things big things grow": indigenous media and cultural activism / Faye Ginsburg
Appropriating media, resisting power: representations of hybrid identities in Okinawan popular culture / Yoshinobu Ota
Abbey Lincoln's Straight ahead: jazz in the era of the civil rights movement / Ingrid Monson
Dissent under socialism: opposition, reform, and the West German media in the German Democratic Republic of the 1980s / Nathan Stoltzfus
Villagers at arms: war and counterrevolution in Peru's Andes / Orin Starn
Reorganizing and recapturing dissent in 1990s South Korea: the case of farmers / Nancy Abelmann
