Street Politics
Author: Asef Bayat
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9780231108591
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe story of a grassroots political movement that flourished throughout the 1970s and 1980s.
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Politics in the Streets
Author: Bob Purdie
Publisher:
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKParades and the Politics of the Street
Author: Simon P. Newman
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2010-08-03
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 0812200470
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSimon P. Newman vividly evokes the celebrations of America's first national holidays in the years between the ratification of the Constitution and the inauguration of Thomas Jefferson. He demonstrates how, by taking part in the festive culture of the streets, ordinary American men and women were able to play a significant role in forging the political culture of the young nation. The creation of many of the patriotic holidays we still celebrate coincided with the emergence of the first two-party system. With the political songs they sang, the liberty poles they raised, and the partisan badges they wore, Americans of many walks of life helped shape a new national politics destined to replace the regional practices of the colonial era.
Music and Politics
Author: John Street
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2013-04-16
Total Pages: 205
ISBN-13: 0745672701
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt is common to hear talk of how music can inspire crowds, move individuals and mobilise movements. We know too of how governments can live in fear of its effects, censor its sounds and imprison its creators. At the same time, there are other governments that use music for propaganda or for torture. All of these examples speak to the idea of music's political importance. But while we may share these assumptions about music's power, we rarely stop to analyse what it is about organised sound - about notes and rhythms - that has the effects attributed to it. This is the first book to examine systematically music's political power. It shows how music has been at the heart of accounts of political order, at how musicians from Bono to Lily Allen have claimed to speak for peoples and political causes. It looks too at the emergence of music as an object of public policy, whether in the classroom or in the copyright courts, whether as focus of national pride or employment opportunities. The book brings together a vast array of ideas about music's political significance (from Aristotle to Rousseau, from Adorno to Deleuze) and new empirical data to tell a story of the extraordinary potency of music across time and space. At the heart of the book lies the argument that music and politics are inseparably linked, and that each animates the other.
Party in the Street
Author: Michael T. Heaney
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-02-02
Total Pages: 329
ISBN-13: 1107085403
DOWNLOAD EBOOKParty in the Street explores the interaction between political parties and social movements in the United States. Examining the collapse of the post-9/11 antiwar movement against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, this book focuses on activism and protest in the United States. It argues that the electoral success of the Democratic Party and President Barack Obama, as well as antipathy toward President George W. Bush, played a greater role in this collapse than did changes in foreign policy. It shows that how people identify with social movements and political parties matters a great deal, and it considers the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street as comparison cases.
Politics and Popular Culture
Author: John Street
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2013-05-08
Total Pages: 259
ISBN-13: 0745668682
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn an age where film stars become presidents and politicians appear in pop videos, politics and popular culture have become inextricably interlinked. In this exciting new book, John Street provides a broad survey and analysis of this relationship.
The Streets of San Francisco
Author: Christopher Lowen Agee
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2014-03-31
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 022612231X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDuring the Sixties the nation turned its eyes to San Francisco as the city's police force clashed with movements for free speech, civil rights, and sexual liberation. These conflicts on the street forced Americans to reconsider the role of the police officer in a democracy. In The Streets of San Francisco Christopher Lowen Agee explores the surprising and influential ways in which San Francisco liberals answered that question, ultimately turning to the police as partners, and reshaping understandings of crime, policing, and democracy. The Streets of San Francisco uncovers the seldom reported, street-level interactions between police officers and San Francisco residents and finds that police discretion was the defining feature of mid-century law enforcement. Postwar police officers enjoyed great autonomy when dealing with North Beach beats, African American gang leaders, gay and lesbian bar owners, Haight-Ashbury hippies, artists who created sexually explicit works, Chinese American entrepreneurs, and a wide range of other San Franciscans. Unexpectedly, this police independence grew into a source of both concern and inspiration for the thousands of young professionals streaming into the city's growing financial district. These young professionals ultimately used the issue of police discretion to forge a new cosmopolitan liberal coalition that incorporated both marginalized San Franciscans and rank-and-file police officers. The success of this model in San Francisco resulted in the rise of cosmopolitan liberal coalitions throughout the country, and today, liberal cities across America ground themselves in similar understandings of democracy, emphasizing both broad diversity and strong policing.
The State on the Streets
Author: Mercedes S. Hinton
Publisher:
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn in-depth comparative analysis of the interplay of police, democracy, state, and civil society in Argentina and Brazil, with disturbing implications for the consolidation of democracy in Latin America as a whole.
Political Graffiti in Critical Times
Author: Ricardo Campos
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2021-02-03
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 1789209420
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The Sovereign Street
Author: Carwil Bjork-James
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 2020-03-31
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 0816540152
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the early twenty-first century Bolivian social movements made streets, plazas, and highways into the decisively important spaces for acting politically, rivaling and at times exceeding voting booths and halls of government. The Sovereign Street documents this important period, showing how indigenous-led mass movements reconfigured the politics and racial order of Bolivia from 1999 to 2011. Drawing on interviews with protest participants, on-the-ground observation, and documentary research, activist and scholar Carwil Bjork-James provides an up-close history of the indigenous-led protests that changed Bolivia. At the heart of the study is a new approach to the interaction between protest actions and the parts of the urban landscape they claim. These “space-claiming protests” both communicate a message and exercise practical control over the city. Bjork-James interrogates both protest tactics—as experiences and as tools—and meaning-laden spaces, where meaning is part of the racial and political geography of the city. Taking the streets of Cochabamba, Sucre, and La Paz as its vantage point, The Sovereign Streetoffers a rare look at political revolution as it happens. It documents a critical period in Latin American history, when protests made headlines worldwide, where a generation of pro-globalization policies were called into question, and where the indigenous majority stepped into government power for the first time in five centuries.
