The Kano Durbar: Political aesthetics in the bowel of the elephantAmerican Journal of Cultural Sociology - Tập 1 - Trang 125-151 - 2013
Wendy Griswold, Muhammed Bhadmus
Political aesthetics deploy theatrical techniques to unite performers and audience into a cultural community, thereby distracting from conflicts. The Kano Durbar in northern Nigeria demonstrates how the aesthetics of power can promote a place-based political culture. Although power in Kano rests on a wobbly three-legged stool of traditional, constitutional and religious authority, the status quo c...... hiện toàn bộ
Class culturesAmerican Journal of Cultural Sociology - Tập 11 - Trang 493-507 - 2022
Allison L. Hurst
The strategies of mnemonic battle: On the alignment of autobiographical and collective memories in conflicts over the pastAmerican Journal of Cultural Sociology - Tập 3 - Trang 156-190 - 2015
Thomas DeGloma
In this article, I compare contemporary mnemonic battles concerning three issues: child sexual abuse, the Vietnam war and American slavery. Analyzing the rhetorical dynamics between contentious mnemonic agents in each case, I detail the formal cultural strategies that define different mnemonic disputes in order to elucidate the ways agents use autobiographical memories in contests for mnemonic aut...... hiện toàn bộ
The management of chance in Renaissance FlorenceAmerican Journal of Cultural Sociology - Tập 9 - Trang 460-489 - 2019
Paul D. McLean
The idea of chance, and more specifically, distinctive ways of managing chance, played a decisive role in shaping Renaissance Florentine culture, humanist philosophy, everyday Florentine practices, and Florentine social institutions. Humanist discourse around the notion of fortuna labored to reconcile the evident existence of fortuitous events with Christian understandings of the orderliness and g...... hiện toàn bộ