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Political Aesthetics highlights the complex and ambiguous connections of aesthetics with social, cultural and political experiences in contemporary societies. If today aesthetics seems a rather overused term, mixing a variety of historical realities and complex personal states of being, its relevance as a connecting agent between individual, state and society is stronger than ever.The actual context of political and economic crisis generates new relations between official imposed aesthetics and the resistance and critiques they trigger. Considered beyond the poles of power and protest, the book examines how traditional or innovative artistic practices may acquire unexpected capacities of subversion. It nourishes the current debate around the new political stakes of aesthetics as an inviolable right of ordinary citizens, an essential element of empowerment and agency in a democratic every day.It will be of interest to students and scholars of international relations, political culture and political aesthetics, as well as critical sociology and history. It will also be useful for some broad courses in media studies, cultural studies, and sociology.

Political science --- Power (Philosophy). --- Philosophy --- Aesthetics --- Power (Philosophy) --- Political asepcts. --- Philosophy. --- Esthétique --- Pouvoir (Morale) --- Science politique --- Political aspects. --- Aspect politique --- Philosophie --- Political science - Philosophy

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Cold War. --- World politics --- Cartography --- Political geography --- Geopolitics --- Coexistence (World politics) --- Peaceful coexistence --- Cartography, Primitive --- Chartography --- Map-making --- Mapmaking --- Mapping (Cartography) --- Mathematical geography --- Surveying --- Map projection --- Maps --- Geography, Political --- Human geography --- Political asepcts --- History --- United States --- Foreign relations

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"In the decades preceding the Civil War, coverlets became popular in rural white American households. Often woven by itinerant professional male weavers at the specification of women for use in their homes, these coverlets represent a distinctly American tradition that reflects a rich legacy of folk textiles. Examples of these coverlets are exhibited in both northern and southern states, although in different contexts. They are sometimes exhibited in slave quarters along the seaboard in Georgia and South Carolina in association with plantation properties, as well as in piedmont areas in association with the antebellum yeomanry.These southern textiles are particularly interesting not because of their uniqueness within American textile production in the first half of the 19th century, but because they are most often attributed, in the context of the museum display, to everyday African American slave use, and sometimes to slave production. There is a distinct contrast between the aesthetics of slave house textiles (which are usually bold, hand spun, artisan woven overshot with double weave undulating geometrics) and those of the plantation houses (which tend to be associated with polychromatic European imported printed and woven designs). What can we learn by examining the exhibition and interpretation of these textiles within narratives of American history? This book seeks to answer that question through the examination of these critical questions: How do these textiles arrive in museum collections? How does their placement in slave and servant quarters position them within a history of African American enslaved people's material culture, when in fact they might have been cast offs from an owner? And, finally, in investigating the politics of contemporary exhibition practices, how do appearances resulting from mode of production shape the production of history? Through these explorations, Falls and Smith contend that these exhibits can tell us far more about America's lifestyles today than they might accurately represent the past, particularly with regard to ideas about race, class, gender, the value of women's work, and the separation of private versus public spaces"--

Hand weaving --- Textile design --- Coverlets --- Museum exhibits --- Aesthetics --- History --- Social aspects --- Political asepcts --- Southern States --- Social life and customs --- Beautiful, The --- Beauty --- Esthetics --- Taste (Aesthetics) --- Philosophy --- Art --- Criticism --- Literature --- Proportion --- Symmetry --- Display techniques --- Displays, Museum --- Museum displays --- Museums --- Exhibitions --- Museum techniques --- Bed rugs --- Bedspreads --- Bedding --- Interior decoration --- Decoration and ornament --- Design --- Textile industry --- Weaving --- Psychology --- Radio broadcasting Aesthetics --- Comforters --- Duvets

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Focusing on the relationship between prosecutors and democracy, this volume throws light on key questions about prosecutors and the role they should play in liberal self-government. Internationally distinguished scholars discuss how prosecutors can strengthen democracy, how they sometimes undermine it, and why it has proven so challenging to hold prosecutors accountable while insulating them from politics. The contributors explore the different ways legal systems have addressed that challenge in the United States, the United Kingdom, and continental Europe. Contrasting those strategies allows an assessment of their relative strengths - and a richer understanding of the contested connections between law and democratic politics. Chapters are in explicit conversation with each other, facilitating comparison and deepening the analysis. This is an important new resource for legal scholars and reformers, political philosophers, and social scientists.

Prosecution --- Public prosecutors --- Criminal procedure --- Judicial discretion. --- Democracy. --- Self-government --- Political science --- Equality --- Representative government and representation --- Republics --- Discretion, Judicial --- Discretion (Law) --- Discretion of court --- Administrative discretion --- Judges --- Law --- Criminal law --- Courts --- Criminal justice, Administration of --- Procedure (Law) --- Public law --- Appellate procedure --- Criminal courts --- Trial practice --- DAs (District attorneys) --- District attorneys --- Prosecuting attorneys --- Prosecutors, Public --- Government attorneys --- Informations --- Private prosecutors --- Political aspects. --- Decision making --- Political asepcts. --- Interpretation and construction --- Pleading and practice --- Law and legislation --- Legal status, laws, etc.