The Political Aesthetics of Global Protest

'An interesting overview of how in almost every part of the world, and in a period of only a few years, disruptive protest events came about.' --Thijs van Dooremalen "Ethnography "

Pnina Werber is Professor Emerita of Social Anthropology, Keele University. Martin Webb is Lecturer in Anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London. Kathryn Spellman-Poots is Associate Professor at the Aga Khan University's Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations.

Timeline; Preface; Introduction, Pnina Werbner, Martin Webb and Kathryn Spellman-Poots; Part I: The Arab Spring: Uprisings and Their Aftermath; Teargas, Flags, and the Harlem Shake: Images of and for Revolution in Tunisia and the Dialectics of the Local in the Global, Simon Hawkins; Singing the Revolt in Tahrir Square: Euphoria, Utopia and Revolution, Dalia Wahdan; 'I Dreamed of Being a People': Egypt's Revolution, the People, and Critical Imagination, Hanan Sabea; The Body of the Colonel: Caricature and Incarnation in the Libyan Revolution, Igor Cherstich; Poetry of Protest: Tribes in Yemen's 'Change Revolution', Steven C. Caton, Hazim Al-Eriyani, and Rayman Aryani; Part II: Beyond the Arab Spring: Asia and Africa; A Fractured Solidarity: Communitas and Structure in the Israeli 2011 Social Protest, Oren Livio and Tamar Katriel; 'Gandhi, Camera, Action!' Anna Hazare and the 'Media Fold' in Twenty-First Century India, Christopher Pinney; Short Circuits: The Aesthetics of Protest, Media and Martydom in Indian Anti- Corruption Activism, Martin Webb; The Mother of all Strikes: Popular Protest Culture and Vernacular Cosmopolitanism in the Botswana Public Service Unions' Strike, 2011, Pnina Werbner; Part III: Beyond the Arab Spring: American and European Protests; Vernacular Culture and Grassroots Activism: Non-violent Protest and Progressive Ethos at the 2011 Wisconsin Labor Rallies, Christine Garlough; Occupy Wall Street: Carnival Against Capital? Carnivalesque as Protest Sensibility, Claire Tancons; Subversion through Performance: Performance Activism in London, Paula Serafini; Spain's Indignados and the Mediated Aesthetics of Nonviolence, John Postill; The Poetics of Indignation in Greece: Anti-Austerity Protest and Accountability, Dimitrios Theodossopoulos; About the Contributors.