Staging Politics: Power And Performance In Asia And Africa
\ Edited By Julia C. Strauss, Donal B. Cruise O'Brien
London, New York
: I. B. Tauris
, 2007
viii, 255 p.
International library of political studies;
v. 18
Code E.Book: 7946
Index
Introduction / 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 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.