Staging Politics

Staging Politics
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages : 288
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ISBN-10 : 9780857717023
ISBN-13 : 0857717022
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Book Synopsis Staging Politics by : Julia C. Strauss

Download or read book Staging Politics written by Julia C. Strauss and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2007-04-27 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fresh and original study analyses how power presents itself in dramatic performance in these two increasingly economically and politically important continents. Emotion and politics play a hugely important role in the politics of Asia and Africa but, as this book sets out, too much of western political research into the subject concentrates on apparent deficiencies - on the weakness of institutions, defects in the bureaucracy or markets, poor management of elections, absent judicial autonomy. Viewing political performance through Western eyes in this way - where politics is primarily about the naked pursuit of power and interests - can lead to a misunderstanding of how politics actually works in Africa and Asia, where process plays a far more important role. Thus performance, drama and emotion are far more integral to political outcome there than in the West. By concentrating on this new perspective the authors, each a recognised specialist in one or more states in Asia and Africa, avoid this trap and offer a coherent picture of the impact political performance has on the culture and politics of these societies and how they function.


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