Contested Representation
Title | Contested Representation PDF eBook |
Author | Claudia Landwehr |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 367 |
Release | 2022-11-17 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1009267736 |
In the past two decades, democratic institutions have faced a crisis of representation. From authoritarian backsliding in countries with recent democratic transformations, to severe challenges to established liberal democracies, the meaning of political representation and whether and when it succeeds has become highly debated. In response to an increasingly fraught political climate, Contested Representation brings together scholars from across the United States and Europe to critically assess the performance of representative institutions in Europe and North America. Taking an interdisciplinary, comparative approach, this volume looks at the viability of electoral institutions, the responsiveness of government to public preferences, alternative institutions for more inclusive democracy, and the political economy of populism. Chapters also address the broader normative question of how democratic institutions can be adapted to new conditions and challenges. Expertly researched and exceedingly timely, Contested Representation provides critical frameworks that highlight realistic pathways to democratic reform.
Contested Representation
Title | Contested Representation PDF eBook |
Author | Dhananjay Rai |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 269 |
Release | 2022-07-11 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1666901342 |
Popular Hindi cinema has become a significant signpost of contemporaneity due to its construction of social language. Generally, Hindi cinema has been understood through internal (auteur or genre or cinéma verité) and external aspects (consumption spheres and moviegoers’ complex response in the form of catharsis or everydayness mimesis). However, cinema also needs a new way of discerning with respect to ‘Dalit Representation’. The study needs to look at the construction and meaning of the social language of Hindi cinema. Construction refers to exploring factors beyond the film industry responsible for shaping the social language. Meaning entails the exhibition of social language in the form of messages. Herein, relational exploration becomes crucial. The relationship between factors of social language of Hindi cinema and Dalits must be unraveled for understanding the meaning of social language for Dalits. Contested representation encompasses the nature of absence and presence of Dalits in Hindi cinema.
Contested Representations
Title | Contested Representations PDF eBook |
Author | Shelly R. Butler |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 153 |
Release | 2013-11-05 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1134390068 |
The controversy surrounding the significant "Into the Heart of Africa" exhibit at the Royal Ontario Museum in Canada is explored in this compelling and analytical text. The exhibit has become an international, controversial touchstone for issues surrounding the politics of visual representation, such as the challenges to curatorial and ethnographic authority in multicultural and postcolonial contexts. Asking why the museum's exhibit failed so many people, the author examines such issues as institutional politics, the broad political and intellectual climate surrounding museums, the legacies of colonialism and traditions of representation of Africa, and the politics of irony. By drawing upon anthropological and cultural criticism, the book offers a unique account of the ways in which an ambiguous exhibit about colonialism became the site of an expansiveInto the Heart of Africa."
Contested Representations
Title | Contested Representations PDF eBook |
Author | Shelly R. Butler |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 156 |
Release | 2013-11-05 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1134390130 |
The controversy surrounding the significant "Into the Heart of Africa" exhibit at the Royal Ontario Museum in Canada is explored in this compelling and analytical text. The exhibit has become an international, controversial touchstone for issues surrounding the politics of visual representation, such as the challenges to curatorial and ethnographic authority in multicultural and postcolonial contexts. Asking why the museum's exhibit failed so many people, the author examines such issues as institutional politics, the broad political and intellectual climate surrounding museums, the legacies of colonialism and traditions of representation of Africa, and the politics of irony. By drawing upon anthropological and cultural criticism, the book offers a unique account of the ways in which an ambiguous exhibit about colonialism became the site of an expansiveInto the Heart of Africa."
Contested Concepts in Gender and Social Politics
Title | Contested Concepts in Gender and Social Politics PDF eBook |
Author | Barbara Hobson |
Publisher | Edward Elgar Publishing |
Pages | 264 |
Release | 2002-01-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9781781950340 |
This text challenges mainstream thinking on welfare states, citizenship, family, work and social policy. It analyses the corresponding shifts in political discourse, and the changes in socio-political configurations that mirror changing gender relations.
Contested Transformation
Title | Contested Transformation PDF eBook |
Author | Carol Hardy-Fanta |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 515 |
Release | 2016-10-25 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0521196434 |
This book provides the first in-depth look at male and female elected officials of color using survey and other empirical data.
Contested Civil Society in Myanmar
Title | Contested Civil Society in Myanmar PDF eBook |
Author | Maaike Matelski |
Publisher | Policy Press |
Pages | 213 |
Release | 2023-11-23 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 152923056X |
ePDFs of chapters 4, 5 and 7 are available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence This book centres on various contestations in Myanmar society and illustrates the ways in which these are reflected in civil society. The book offers a concise overview of recent political developments in the country, from the short-lived attempts at democratization to the 2021 military coup, and analyses the involvement of various civil society actors, as well as their international supporters. It incorporates multiple identities and fault lines in Myanmar society and explains how these influence diverse perceptions, framing and agenda setting as political developments unfold. The book provides an up-to-date overview of the main identities and contestations within Myanmar’s civil society and, by extension, within Myanmar society as a whole. It also gives recommendations to donors, policy makers and researchers wishing to better understand and support local civil society actors operating in repressive environments.