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Islamist mobilization in Turkey : a study in vernacular politics
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ISBN: 0295802278 9780295802275 0295982233 9780295982915 0295982918 9780295982236 Year: 2002 Publisher: Seattle : University of Washington Press,

It was like a fever : storytelling in protest and politics
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ISBN: 128267921X 9786612679216 0226673774 9780226673776 0226673758 0226673766 9780226673752 9780226673769 0226673758 9780226673752 9781282679214 6612679212 Year: 2006 Publisher: Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press,

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Activists and politicians have long recognized the power of a good story to move people to action. In early 1960 four black college students sat down at a whites-only lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, and refused to leave. Within a month sit-ins spread to thirty cities in seven states. Student participants told stories of impulsive, spontaneous action-this despite all the planning that had gone into the sit-ins. "It was like a fever," they said. Francesca Polletta's It Was Like a Fever sets out to account for the power of storytelling in mobilizing political and social movements. Drawing on cases ranging from sixteenth-century tax revolts to contemporary debates about the future of the World Trade Center site, Polletta argues that stories are politically effective not when they have clear moral messages, but when they have complex, often ambiguous ones. The openness of stories to interpretation has allowed disadvantaged groups, in particular, to gain a hearing for new needs and to forge surprising political alliances. But popular beliefs in America about storytelling as a genre have also hurt those challenging the status quo. A rich analysis of storytelling in courtrooms, newsrooms, public forums, and the United States Congress, It Was Like a Fever offers provocative new insights into the dynamics of culture and contention.


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State, Popular Mobilisation and Gold Mining in Mongolia : Shaping ‘Neoliberal’ Policies
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ISBN: 1787351831 178735184X 1787351866 1787351858 Year: 2020 Publisher: University College London

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Mongolia’s mining sector, along with its environmental and social costs, have been the subject of prolonged and heated debate. This debate has often cast the country as either a victim of the ‘resource curse’ or guilty of ‘resource nationalism’. In The State, Popular Mobilisation and Gold Mining in Mongolia, Dulam Bumochir aims to avoid the pitfalls of this debate by adopting an alternative theoretical approach. He focuses on the indigenous representations of nature, environment, economy, state and sovereignty that have triggered nationalist and statist responses to the mining boom. In doing so, he explores the ways in which these responses have shaped the apparently ‘neo-liberal’ policies of twenty-first century Mongolia, and the economy that has emerged from them, in the face of competing mining companies, protest movements, international donor organizations, economic downturn, and local and central government policies. Applying rich ethnography to a nuanced and complex picture, Bumochir’s analysis is essential reading for students and researchers studying the environment and mining, especially in Central and North East Asia and post-Soviet regions, and also for readers interested in the relationship between neoliberalism, nationalism, environmentalism and state.

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Mongolia --- Mongolei --- Geschichte --- Wirtschaftsentwicklung --- Ökologie --- Umweltschutz --- Politische Mobilisierung --- Umweltschaden --- Staat --- Wirtschaft --- Akteur --- Bergbau --- Gold mines and mining --- Mongolei. --- Politik. --- Ethnologie. --- Goldbergbau. --- Mining --- Relations between economic actors and states/politics --- Environmental damage --- Social/political movements --- Social/political mobilization --- Environmental protection --- Relations between the economy and ecology --- Economic development --- historical processes. --- Verhältnis wirtschaftliche Akteure - Staat --- Umweltschädigung --- Gesellschaftliche/Politische Bewegung --- Gesellschaftliche/Politische Mobilisierung --- Verhältnis Ökonomie - Ökologie --- Wirtschaftliche Entwicklung --- Historische Prozesse. --- Environmental aspects --- Social aspects --- Gold discoveries --- Gold extraction (Mining) --- Gold fields --- Gold mining --- Gold rush --- Gold rushes --- Goldfields --- Goldmining --- Goldrush --- Goldrushes --- Sites, Gold mining --- Mines and mineral resources --- Mongġol --- 몽골 --- Mongol Uls --- Монгол Улс --- Mongġol Ulus --- Mongolie --- Mongolii︠a︡ --- Монголия --- BNMAU --- БНМАУ --- Bu̇gd Naĭramdakh Mongol Ard Uls --- Bügd Nayramdah Mongol Ard Uls --- MNR --- МНР --- Mongolʹskai︠a︡ narodnai︠a︡ respublika --- Монгольская народная республика --- Meng-ku jen min kung ho kuo --- Menggu ren min gong he guo --- 蒙古人民共和國 --- Meng-ku --- Menggu --- 蒙古 --- Wai Meng-ku --- Mongolische Volksrepublik --- Mongoru Jimmin Kyōwakoku --- Mongol Népköztársaság --- Outer Mongolia --- Mongolia (Outer Mongolia) --- Mongolian People's Republic --- Mongolia (Mongolian People's Republic) --- République populaire de Mongolie --- Bu̇gd Naĭramdakh Mongol Ard Ulsyn --- Mongolian Republic --- Mongoliet --- モンゴル --- Mongoru --- 外蒙古 --- Gaimōko --- 蒙古人民共和国 --- Mōko Jinmin Kyōwakoku --- モンゴル人民共和国 --- Mongoru Jinmin Kyōwakoku --- Inner Mongolia (China) --- Social & cultural anthropology --- Bu̇gu̇de Nayiramdaqu Mongġol Arad Ulus --- Mengguguo --- 蒙古国 --- Wai Menggu --- Verhältnis Ökonomie

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