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In the wake of Glasgow's transformation in the nineteenth-century into an industrial powerhouse–the “Second City of the Empire”–a substantial part of the old town of Adam Smith degenerated into an overcrowded and disease-ridden slum. The Old Closes and Streets of Glasgow, Thomas Annan's photographic record of this central section of the city prior to its demolition in accordance with the City of Glasgow Improvements Act of 1866, is widely recognized as a classic of nineteenth-century documentary photography. Annan's achievement as a photographer of paintings, portraits and landscapes is less widely known. Thomas Annan of Glasgow: Pioneer of the Documentary Photograph offers a handy, comprehensive and copiously illustrated overview of the full range of the photographer's work. The book opens with a brief account of the immediate context of Annan's career as a photographer: the astonishing florescence of photography in Victorian Scotland. Successive chapters deal with each of the main fields of his activity, touching along the way on issues such as the nineteenth-century debate over the status of photography–a mechanical practice or an artistic one?–and the still ongoing controversies surrounding the documentary photograph in particular. While the text itself is intended for the general reader, extensive endnotes amplify particular themes and offer guidance to readers interested in pursuing them further.

Streets --- Photographers --- Photography --- Documentary photography --- History. --- Annan, Thomas, --- Glasgow (Scotland) --- History

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When we observe protest marches, striking workers on picket lines, and insurgent movements in the world today, a litany of objects routinely fill our field of vision. Some such objects are ubiquitous the world over, like flags, banners, and placards. Others are situationally unique: Who could have anticipated the historical importance of a flower placed in the barrel of a gun, a flaming torch, a sea of umbrellas, a motorist's yellow vest, a feather headdress, an AK-47, or a knitted pink hat? This book explores the "stuff" at the heart of protests, revolutions, civil wars, and other contentious political events, with particular focus on those objects that have or acquire symbolic importance. In the context of "contentious politics" (disruptive political episodes where people try to change societies without going through institutions), certain objects can divide and unite social groups, tell stories, make declarations, spark controversy, and even trigger violent upheavals.This book draws together scholars from a variety of fields to discuss symbolic objects in contentious politics: their meanings, uses, functions, and social responses. In bringing these phenomena together, this book offers a serious, distinctive, and cohesive theoretical contribution that draws upon diverse scholarly work in order to form the building blocks for future inquiry in the field. The aim is not merely to "close the gap" in the literature, but to create space in the field for further and more fruitful inquiry.

Symbolism in politics --- Political culture --- Social conflict --- Symbolic politics --- Political science --- Culture --- feathered headdress --- Estado Novo --- streets --- Social movements --- objects --- Kurdish movement --- contentious politics --- insurrection --- Che Guevara --- revolution --- Portugal --- signatures --- Syria --- Mohamed Bouazizi --- Iran --- UK --- fire --- police brutality --- Iraq --- Occupy --- Salazar --- masks --- contention --- protest --- Canada --- Turkey --- LGBTQ --- Mekaps --- graffiti --- material culture --- weapons --- bodywork --- martyrdom --- rainbow flag --- G20 --- anti-austerity --- flags --- North Africa --- Indigenous Americans --- Middle East --- self-immolation --- walls --- Nigeria --- Tunisia --- USA --- Arab Spring --- shoes --- Thick Quang Duc --- Biafra --- Lebanon --- semiotics --- stuff