Naked Politics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Naked Politics write by Brett Lunceford. This book was released on 2012. Naked Politics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Naked Politics: Nudity, Political Action, and the Rhetoric of the Body by Brett Lunceford, examines the rhetorical power of the unclothed body as it relates to protest and political action. This study explores what the disrobed body communicates, and how others are invited to make sense of this display. The actions examined range from grassroots protests to those of professionalized social movement organizations. Specifically, Lunceford examines PETA and the use of chained women and the Running of the Nudes; lactivists, or women engaging in public breastfeeding as protest action in both online and physical space; the World Naked Bike Ride's worldwide protest against oil dependency and attempt to raise awareness of the vulnerability of cyclists; and a contest held on College Humor that invited women to write their preferred presidential candidate on their exposed breasts and send the picture to them to post on the site. Although these actions may seem to have little in common beyond their use of body exposure, they all share the notions that something can happen when you take your clothes off and that the act of disrobing can have social and political consequences. Moreover, these groups illustrate the often paradoxical views of the exposed body--by both the participants and the observers--and how such bodies operate in the public sphere. Even when the voice is silent, the body still speaks; Naked Politics considers what is being said.
The Naked Blogger of Cairo
The Naked Blogger of Cairo - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Naked Blogger of Cairo write by Marwan M. Kraidy. This book was released on 2016-06-06. The Naked Blogger of Cairo available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A Times Higher Education Book of the Year Uprisings spread like wildfire across the Arab world from 2010 to 2012, fueled by a desire for popular sovereignty. In Tunisia, Egypt, Syria, and elsewhere, protesters flooded the streets and the media, voicing dissent through slogans, graffiti, puppetry, videos, and satire that called for the overthrow of dictators and the regimes that sustained them. Investigating what drives people to risk everything to express themselves in rebellious art, The Naked Blogger of Cairo uncovers the creative insurgency at the heart of the Arab uprisings. “A deep dive into the cultural politics of the Arab uprisings...Kraidy’s sharp insights and rich descriptions of a new Arab generation’s irrepressible creative urges will amply reward the effort. Reading Kraidy’s accounts of the politically charted cultural gambits of wired Arab youth rekindles some of the seemingly lost spirit of the early days of the Arab uprisings and offers hope for the future.” —Marc Lynch, Washington Post “The Naked Blogger of Cairo is a superb and important work not just for scholars but for anyone who cares about the relationships between art, the body, and revolution.” —Hans Rollman, PopMatters
Bad Language, Naked Ladies, and Other Threats to the Nation
Bad Language, Naked Ladies, and Other Threats to the Nation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bad Language, Naked Ladies, and Other Threats to the Nation write by Anne Rubenstein. This book was released on 1998. Bad Language, Naked Ladies, and Other Threats to the Nation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A history of Mexican comic books, their readers, their producers, their critics, and their complex relations with the government and the Church that discusses cultural nationalism, popular taste, and social change.
The Naked Diplomat: Understanding Power and Politics in the Digital Age
The Naked Diplomat: Understanding Power and Politics in the Digital Age - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Naked Diplomat: Understanding Power and Politics in the Digital Age write by Tom Fletcher. This book was released on 2016-06-02. The Naked Diplomat: Understanding Power and Politics in the Digital Age available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Who will be in power in the 21st century? Governments? Big business? Internet titans? And how do we influence the future?
The Naked Communist:Cold War Modernism and the Politics of Popular Culture
The Naked Communist:Cold War Modernism and the Politics of Popular Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Naked Communist:Cold War Modernism and the Politics of Popular Culture write by Roland Vegso. This book was released on 2013. The Naked Communist:Cold War Modernism and the Politics of Popular Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Naked Communist argues that the political ideologies of modernity were fundamentally determined by four basic figures: the world, the enemy, the secret, and the catastrophe. While the "world" names the totality that functioned as the ultimate horizon of modern political imagination, the three other figures define the necessary limits of this totality by reflecting on the limits of representation. The book highlights the enduring presence of these figures in the modern imagination through detailed analysis of a concrete historical example: American anti-Communist politics of the 1950s. Its primary objective is to describe the internal mechanisms of what we could call an anti-Communist "aesthetic ideology." The book thus traces the way anti-Communist popular culture emerged in the discourse of Cold War liberalism as a political symptom of modernism. Based on a discursive analysis of American anti-Communist politics, the book presents parallel readings of modernism and popular fiction from the 1950s (nuclear holocaust novels, spy novels, and popular political novels) in order to show that, despite the radical separation of the two cultural fields, they both participated in a common ideological program.
