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Hannah Arendt famously argued that politics are best understood as a power relationship between private and public realms. And storytelling, she argued, creates a vital bridge between these realms, a place where individual passions and shared perspectives can be contested and interwoven. This book explores and expands on Arendt's notions, bringing stories from all around the world into impressive cross-cultural analysis. The author retells stories from the Kuranko in Sierra Leone, the Australian Aboriginals, and the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, by refugees, renegades, and war veterans. Focusing on the violent and volatile conditions under which stories are told or silenced, he explores the power of narrative to remake reality, enabling people to symbolically alter their relations and help reclaim an existential viability. He shows how Arendt's writings on narrative deepen our understanding of the critical, therapeutic, and politic role of storytelling, that it is one of the crucial ways by which we understand one another.

Intersubjectivity. --- Intersubjectivity. --- Muntligt berättande --- Social psychology. --- Social psychology. --- Storytelling --- Storytelling --- Storytelling. --- Storytelling. --- Violence. --- Violence. --- Politiska aspekter. --- Political aspects. --- Political aspects.

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Citizenship. --- Emigration and immigration --- Immigrants --- Invandrare --- Medborgarskap. --- Migration --- Political aspects. --- Civil rights. --- Political activity. --- Medborgerliga fri- och rättigheter. --- Politisk verksamhet. --- Politiska aspekter.

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In Ancient greece, interstate relations, such as in the formation of alliances, calls for assistance, exchanges of citizenship, and territorial conquest, were often grounded in mythical kinship. In these cases, the common ancestor was most often a legendary figure from whom both communities claimed descent. In this detailed study, Lee E. Patterson elevates the current state of research on kinship myth to a consideration of the role it plays in the construction of political and cultural identity. He draws examles both from the literary and epigraphical records and shows the fundamental difference between the two. He also expands his study into the question of Greek credulity--how much of these founding myths did they actually believe, and how much was just a useful fiction for diplomatic relations? Of central importance is the authority the Greeks gave to myth, whether to elaborate narratives or to a simple acknowledgment of an ancestor. Most Greeks could readily accetties of interstate kinship even when local origin narratives could not be reconciled smoothly or when myths used to explain the link between communities were only "discovered" upon the actual occasion of diplomacy, because such claims had been given authority in the colective memory of the Greeks. This study enriches the dialogue on how societies often use myth to construct political, social, and cultural identity--hardly unique to the ancient Greeks, it is rather a human phenomenon for a culture to embrace an identity grounded in a putative ancestry that is expressed in the traditional stories of that culture. --Book Jacket.

Kinship --- Mythology, Greek. --- Civilization, Ancient. --- Greece --- History. --- Foreign relations. --- Civilization. --- Politics and government. --- Släktskapsförhållanden --- Grekisk mytologi --- Internationale Politik --- Verwandtschaft --- Herkunftssage --- International relations. --- Kinship. --- Political science. --- politiska aspekter --- historia --- politiska aspekter. --- Griechenland --- Greece. --- Internationale Politik. --- Verwandtschaft. --- Herkunftssage. --- Griechenland. --- Parenté --- Grèce --- Histoire --- Parenté --- Grèce

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"In The Political Force of Musical Beauty, Barry Shank shows how musical acts and performances generate their own aesthetic and political force, creating, however fleetingly, a shared sense of the world among otherwise diverse listeners. Rather than focusing on the ways in which music enables the circulation of political messages, he argues that communities grounded in the act and experience of listening can give rise to new political ideas and expression. Analyzing a wide range of 'beautiful music' within popular and avant-garde genres--including the Japanese traditions in the music of Takemitsu Toru and Yoko Ono, the drone of the Velvet Underground, and the insistence of hardcore punk and Riot grrrl post-punk--Shank finds that when it fulfills the promise of combining sonic and lyrical differences into a cohesive whole, musical beauty has the power to reorganize the basis of social relations and produce communities that recognize meaningful difference."--Publisher's Web site.

Gesellschaft. --- Group identity in the performing arts. --- Group identity in the performing arts. --- Gruppidentitet. --- Music --- Music --- Music --- Music --- Musik --- Musik --- Musik. --- Scenisk konst. --- Schönheit. --- Ästhetik. --- Political aspects. --- Political aspects. --- Social aspects. --- Social aspects. --- Politiska aspekter. --- Sociologiska aspekter.

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Far-right populist politics have arrived in the mainstream. We are now witnessing the shameless normalization of a political discourse built around nationalism, xenophobia, racism, sexism, antisemitism and Islamophobia. But what does this change mean? What caused it? And how does far-right populist discourse work? The Politics of Fear traces the trajectory of far-right politics from the margins of the political landscape to its very centre. It explores the social and historical mechanisms at play, and expertly ties these to the "micro-politics" of far-right language and discourse. From speeches to cartoons to social media posts, Ruth Wodak systematically analyzes the texts and images used by these groups, laying bare the strategies, rhetoric and half-truths the far-right employ. The revised second edition of this best-selling book includes: A range of vignettes analyzing specific instances of far-right discourse in detail. Expanded discussion of the "normalization" of far-right discourse. A new chapter exploring the challenges to liberal democracy. An updated glossary of far-right parties and movements. More discussion of the impact of social media on the rise of the far-right. Critical, analytical and impassioned, The Politics of Fear is essential reading for anyone looking to understand how far-right and populist politics have moved into the mainstream, and what we can do about it. --

Conservatism --- Populism --- Political parties --- Political sociology --- Pragmatics --- Conservatism. --- Discourse analysis. --- Diskursanalys --- Diskursanalyse. --- Högerextremism. --- Högerextremistiska partier. --- Konservatism. --- Political parties. --- Politiska partier. --- Populism. --- Rechtspopulismus. --- Rhetorik. --- Right-wing extremists --- Right-wing extremists. --- Politiska aspekter. --- Europa. --- Förenta staterna. --- Conservatism - Europe. --- Populism - Europe. --- Political parties - Europe. --- Conservatism - United States. --- Populism - United States. --- Political parties - United States.