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245 00 $aStaging politics :$bpower and performance in Asia and Africa /$cedited by Julia C. Strauss and Donal B. Cruise O'Brien.
260 $aLondon ;$aNew York :$bI. B. Tauris,$c2007.
300 $aviii, 255 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
490 1 $aInternational library of political studies ;$vv. 18
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction / Julia C. Strauss and Donal B. Cruise O'Brien -- Show and State in Senegal : Play-acting on the Threshold of Power / Donal B. Cruise O'Brien -- Part I. Trials -- "In the Name of the People" : the 'People's Court' and the Iraqi Revolution (1958-1960) / Charles Tripp -- Accusing Counterrevolutionaries : Bureaucracy and Theatre in the Revolutionary People's Republic of China (1950-1957) / Julia C. Strauss -- The Politics of Performance : Gandhi's Trial Read as Theatre / Sudipta Kaviraj -- Part II. Elections and Leadership -- Kérékou the Chameleon, Master of Myth / Patrick Claffey -- "Blue Marches" : Public Performance and Political Turnover in Senegal / Vincent Foucher -- Putting on a Show and Electoral Fortunes in Taiwan's Multi-Party Elections / Dafydd Fell -- Political Theatre in the 2003 Cambodian Elections : State, Democracy and Conciliation in Historical Perspective / Steve Heder -- Dalit Processions : Street Politics and Democratization in India / Nicolas Jaoul -- State Power, Political Theatre and Reinvention of the Pro-Democracy Movement in Hong Kong : The March on 1 July 2003 / Agnes Shuk-mei Ku -- Watching the Watchers : The Spectacle of Civil Society in the Philippines / Eva-Lotta E. Hedman -- Afterword : The Heisenberg Principle of Political Performance / Joseph W. Esherick.
520 $aThis fresh and original study analyses how power presents itself in dramatic performance in these two increasingly economically and politically important continents. Emotion and politics play a hugely important role in the politics of Asia and Africa but, as this book sets out, too much of western political research into the subject concentrates on apparent deficiencies - on the weakness of institutions, defects in the bureaucracy or markets, poor management of elections, absent judicial autonomy. Viewing political performance through Western eyes in this way - where politics is primarily about the naked pursuit of power and interests - can lead to a misunderstanding of how politics actually works in Africa and Asia, where process plays a far more important role. Thus performance, drama and emotion are far more integral to political outcome there than in the West. By concentrating on this new perspective the authors, each a recognised specialist in one or more states in Asia and Africa, avoid this trap and offer a coherent picture of the impact political performance has on the culture and politics of these societies and how they function.
650 0 $aPolitical culture$zAsia.
650 0 $aPolitical culture$zAfrica.
650 0 $aBehaviorism (Political science)$zAsia.
650 0 $aBehaviorism (Political science)$zAfrica.
651 0 $aAsia$xPolitics and government.
651 0 $aAfrica$xPolitics and government.
700 1 $aStrauss, Julia C.
700 1 $aCruise O'Brien, Donal B.$q(Donal Brian)
830 0 $aInternational library of political studies ;$v18.
988 $a20080104
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