Reinventing Political Culture

Author : Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780745637488

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Reinventing Political Culture by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb Pdf

The way people think and act politically is not set in stone. People can and do change the fundamental cultural contours of their political situation. Their political culture does not only restrict imagination and action - it is also a resource for political creativity and invention. In Reinventing Political Culture, this resource is uncovered and explored. Analyzed as a tension between the power of culture and the culture of power, the concept of political culture is reinvented and applied to understanding the practice of people transforming their own political culture in very different circumstances. Three instances of such reinvention are closely examined: one historic, during the twilight of the Soviet empire; one actively in process and actively opposed, ‘the Obama revolution'; and one an apparent distant dream, the power of culture and the culture of power that would avoid ‘the clash of civilizations' in the Middle East. In accessible and engaging prose, Goldfarb clearly and forcefully presents students and scholars of sociology, comparative politics, and cultural studies with an original position on political culture, showing how the political cultures of our times pose not only grave dangers, but also opportunities for creative alternatives.

Author : M. Janine Brodie,Linda Trimble
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Canada
ISBN : OCLC:1011924752

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Reinventing Canada by M. Janine Brodie,Linda Trimble Pdf

Comprised of 23 articles by leading Canadian scholars, this book provides a comprehensive supplementary text for Canadian politics courses. The articles in this compilation discuss the major issues that define Canada's current political culture, including globalization , race, disability, immigration, environment, and foreign policy. This reader features timely selections that analyze Canada's North as well as issues of security and immigration in Canada after September 11th.

Author : Marian J. Rubchak
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781782387657

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New Imaginaries by Marian J. Rubchak Pdf

Having been spared the constraints imposed on intellectual discourse by the totalitarian regime of the past, young Ukrainian scholars now engage with many Western ideological theories and practices in an atmosphere of intellectual freedom and uncensored scholarship. Displacing the Soviet legacy of prescribed thought and practices, this volume’s female contributors have infused their work with Western elements, although vestiges of Soviet-style ideas, research methodology, and writing linger. The result is the articulation of a “New Imaginaries” — neither Soviet nor Western — that offers a unique approach to the study of gender by presenting a portrait of Ukrainian society as seen through the eyes of a new generation of feminist scholars.

Author : K.A. Cuordileone
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136055102

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Manhood and American Political Culture in the Cold War by K.A. Cuordileone Pdf

Manhood and American Political Culture in the Cold War explores the meaning of anxiety as expressed through the political and cultural language of the early cold war era. Cuordileone shows how the preoccupation with the soft, malleable American character reflected not only anti-Communism but acute anxieties about manhood and sexuality. Reading major figures like Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Adlai Stevenson, Joseph McCarthy, Norman Mailer, JFK, and many lesser known public figures, Cuordileone reveals how the era’s cult of toughness shaped the political dynamics of the time and inspired a reinvention of the liberal as a cold warrior.

Author : Walter A. Rosenbaum
Publisher : New York : Praeger
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015002264854

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Political Culture by Walter A. Rosenbaum Pdf

For introductory and intermediate undergraduate courses in political science.

Author : Edward Weisband,Courtney Irene Powell Thomas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Nation-state
ISBN : 1612057845

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Political Culture and the Making of Modern Nation-states by Edward Weisband,Courtney Irene Powell Thomas Pdf

This book focuses on transformations of political culture from times past to future-present. It defines the meaning of political culture and explores the cultural values and institutions of kinship communities and dynastic intermediaries, including chiefdoms and early states. It systematically examines the rise and gradual universalization of modern sovereign nation-states. The authors recount the making of political culture in the American nation-state and look at the processes of internal colonialism in the American experience, examining how major ethnic, sectarian, racial, and other distinctions arose and congealed into social and cultural categories.

Author : Agnès Alexandre-Collier,Alexandra Goujon,Guillaume Gourgues
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780429649226

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Innovations, Reinvented Politics and Representative Democracy by Agnès Alexandre-Collier,Alexandra Goujon,Guillaume Gourgues Pdf

This volume focuses on the issue of change in democratic politics in terms of experimental or actual innovations introduced either within political parties or outside the party system, involving citizen participation and mobilization. Including a wide and diverse range of alternatives in the organization of groups, campaigning, conducting initiatives and enhancing practices, they not only question the relevance of traditional institutions in representing citizens’ values and interests, but also share a common goal which is precisely – and perhaps paradoxically – to reshape and invigorate representative democracy This book is of key interest to scholars and students of party politics, elections/electoral studies, social movement and democratic innovations and more broadly to comparative politics, political theory and political sociology.

Author : S. Milner,N. Parsons
Publisher : Springer
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2003-11-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781403948182

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Reinventing France by S. Milner,N. Parsons Pdf

Undermined from above by economic globalization and European integration, and from below by the rise of identity politics, the French state has attempted to redefine its relationship to its citizens. Reinventing France examines the ways in which state action has endeavoured to promote social integration in an increasingly fragmented nation and has challenged traditional concepts of an indivisible Republic and universal citizenship rights in order to achieve the core republican ideals of freedom, equality and solidarity.

Author : Andrew Lattas
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0299158047

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Cultures of Secrecy by Andrew Lattas Pdf

After driving the Japanese out of Papua New Guinea during World War II, the U.S. military forces left their gear -- and the makings of a cargo cult -- to the native Kaliai. CULTURES OF SECRECY offers a close look at how, for fifty years, the bush Kaliai in Melanesia have worked these tailings of the western world into their indigenous culture. Lattas shows how cargo cults in general bring together past, present, and future in their curious blending of traditional myths, imported folklore, borrowed state practices and ideologies, and reworked Christian stories. The result is a richly interdisciplinary work that uses ethnography to explore questions of racial experience, gender relations, space, time, death, and the politics of human relations. Never passive imitators, the Kaliai as Andrew Lattas portrays them actively incorporate and transform western beliefs and practices into their own narratives of life, sexuality, and death. The consequences are new myths and histories, new relationships with the ancestral dead -- an alternative world of power and knowledge through which the Kaliai accommodate the dominant white culture and its institutions. Lattas examines the racial conflict that has riddled the recent history of the cargo cults. He also describes the cults' demonization by the New Tribes missionaries from the United States, who disapprove of the villagers' unorthodox miming of European symbols and practices. His book allows us to see behind the villagers' ambivalence toward "waitskin" (white-skins) as they continue to reinvent their social world.

Author : Lucian W. Pye,Sidney Verba
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1120923106

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Political Culture and Political Development by Lucian W. Pye,Sidney Verba Pdf

Author : Terry Nichols Clark,Vincent Hoffmann-Martinot
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-13
Category : Local government
ISBN : 0367318784

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The New Political Culture by Terry Nichols Clark,Vincent Hoffmann-Martinot Pdf

The New Political culture, which began to take shape in the 1970s, continues to challenge many assumptions of traditional politics, especially on issues of environmentalism, growth management, gay rights, and abortion. Concerned mostly with home, consumption, and lifestyle, the New Politics emerges fully in cities with more highly educated citizens

Author : Neil Harris
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 649 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226067841

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Capital Culture by Neil Harris Pdf

American art museums flourished in the late twentieth century, and the impresario leading much of this growth was J. Carter Brown, director of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, from 1969 to 1992. Along with S. Dillon Ripley, who served as Smithsonian secretary for much of this time, Brown reinvented the museum experience in ways that had important consequences for the cultural life of Washington and its visitors as well as for American museums in general. In Capital Culture, distinguished historian Neil Harris provides a wide-ranging look at Brown’s achievement and the growth of museum culture during this crucial period. Harris combines his in-depth knowledge of American history and culture with extensive archival research, and he has interviewed dozens of key players to reveal how Brown’s showmanship transformed the National Gallery. At the time of the Cold War, Washington itself was growing into a global destination, with Brown as its devoted booster. Harris describes Brown’s major role in the birth of blockbuster exhibitions, such as the King Tut show of the late 1970s and the National Gallery’s immensely successful Treasure Houses of Britain, which helped inspire similarly popular exhibitions around the country. He recounts Brown’s role in creating the award-winning East Building by architect I. M. Pei and the subsequent renovation of the West building. Harris also explores the politics of exhibition planning, describing Brown's courtship of corporate leaders, politicians, and international dignitaries. In this monumental book Harris brings to life this dynamic era and exposes the creation of Brown's impressive but costly legacy, one that changed the face of American museums forever.

Author : Daniel Frick
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2023-04-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780700635627

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Reinventing Richard Nixon by Daniel Frick Pdf

"Nixon's the One!" proclaimed his campaign paraphernalia. "Tricky Dick!" retorted his detractors. From presidential savior for conservative America to bte noire for the political Left, the Richard Nixon persona has worn many masks and labels. In fiction and poetry and pop songs, in television and film, no other national political figure has so thoroughly saturated our public consciousness with so many contrasting images. Focusing on the process of Nixon's continuous reinvention, Daniel Frick reveals a figure who continues to expose key fault lines in the nation's self-definition. Drawing on references ranging from All in the Family to Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, he shows how Nixon has become one of America's most durable and multifaceted icons in the ongoing and fierce debates over the import and meaning of the last sixty years of national life. Examining Nixon's autobiographies and political memorabilia, Frick offers far-reaching perceptions not only of the man but of Nixon's version of himself-contrasted with those who would interpret him differently. He cites reinventions of Nixon from the late 1980s, particularly the museum at the Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace, to demonstrate the resilience of certain national mythic narratives in the face of liberal critiques. And he recounts how celebrants at Nixon's state funeral, at which Bob Dole's eulogy depicted a God-fearing American hero, attempted to bury the sources of our divisions over him, rendering in some minds the judgment of "redeemed statesman" to erase his status as "disgraced president." With dozens of illustrations-Nixon posing with Elvis (the National Archives' most requested photo), Nixonian cultural artifacts, classic editorial cartoons—no other book collects in one place such varied images of Nixon from so many diverse media. These reinforce Frick's probing analysis to help us understand why we disagree about Nixon—and why it matters how we resolve our disagreements. Whether your image of Nixon is shaped by his autobiography Six Crises, Oliver Stone's surprisingly sympathetic film Nixon, John Adams's landmark opera Nixon in China, or by the saga of Watergate, Reinventing Richard Nixon expands on all perspectives. It shows how, through these contradictory mythic stories, we continue to reinvent, much like Nixon himself, our own sense of national identity.

Author : Marc Dollinger
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2024-04-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781479826889

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Black Power, Jewish Politics by Marc Dollinger Pdf

"Black Power, Jewish Politics expands with this revised edition that includes the controversial new preface, an additional chapter connecting the book's themes to the national reckoning on race, and a foreword by Jews of Color Initiative founder Ilana Kaufman that all reflect on Blacks, Jews, race, white supremacy, and the civil rights movement"--

Author : Pippa Norris
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2002-09-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521010535

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Democratic Phoenix by Pippa Norris Pdf

Conventional wisdom suggests that citizens in many countries have become disengaged from the traditional channels of political participation. Commentators highlight warning signs including sagging electoral turnout, rising anti-party sentiment, and the decay of civic organizations. But are these concerns justified? This book compares systematic evidence for electoral turnout, party membership, and civic activism in countries around the world and suggests good reasons to question assumptions of decline. Not only is the obituary for older forms of political activism premature, but new forms of civic engagement may have emerged in modern societies to supplement traditional modes. The process of societal modernization and rising levels of human capital are primarily responsible, although participation is also explained by the structure of the state, the role of agencies, and social inequalities.