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"Over the span of two weeks in mid-January 2011, reports of numerous selfimmolations were surfacing in Cairo. On January 17, Abdou Abdel Monaam, a small restaurateur, set himself on fire in protest against a law preventing restaurant owners from buying subsidized bread, forcing him to buy bread at five times the subsidized price. On the same day, Mohamed Farouk Hassan, a lawyer, railed against rising prices before setting himself on fire. These immolations, clearly in emulation of the events that sparked the uprisings in Tunisia, sought to ignite the fires of popular protest against the Mubarak regime in Egypt"--

Arab Spring, 2010-. --- Protest movements --- Self-immolation --- History --- Political aspects --- Egypt --- Egypt --- Egypt --- History --- Politics and government --- Social conditions

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Self-immolation --- Suicide --- Government, Resistance to --- Auto-immolation --- Suicide --- Résistance au gouvernement --- Social aspects --- Sociological aspects --- Aspect social --- Aspect sociologique

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Tibet on Fire is her account of the oppression Tibetans face and the ideals driving those who resist, both the self-immolators and other Tibetans like herself. With a cover image designed by Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei, Tibet on Fire is angry and cogent: a clarion call for the world to take action.

89.62 political movements. --- Alternative Press Collection. --- Autonomy and independence movements. --- Politics and government. --- Self-immolation --- Political aspects --- Religious aspects --- Buddhism. --- Since 1951. --- China --- China. --- Tibet Autonomous Region (China) --- Tibet. --- History --- Politics and government

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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

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suicide cults --- Masada --- religious mass suicide --- Jonestown --- the Russian Old Believers --- purification --- illumination --- death --- the murder-suicides of the Order of the Solar Temple --- rhetoric --- revolution --- resistance --- Guyana --- individual suicide and the end of the world --- UFO and alien-based religions --- Apocalypse --- Uganda --- the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God --- social-political suicides --- Muslim terrorism --- human bombs --- suicide attacks --- burning Buddhists --- self-immolation as political protest --- media orchestration of politically motivated suicides --- faux suicide cults --- Falun Gong and suicide --- Mount Carmel --- execution --- screen suicide cults --- suicide cults on television --- the Sicarii suicide --- Hollywood's racism --- Girard's victimage mechanism