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Power, Legitimacy and the Public Sphere - The Iranian Ta'ziyeh Theatre Ritual (Hardcover)
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Power, Legitimacy and the Public Sphere - The Iranian Ta'ziyeh Theatre Ritual (Hardcover)
Series: Contemporary Liminality
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A ground-breaking study of political transformations in non-Western
societies, this book applies anthropological, sociological and
political concepts to the recent history of Iran to explore the
role played by a ritual theatrical performance (Ta'ziyeh) and its
symbols on the construction of public mobilisations. With
particular attention to three formative phases - the 1978-79
Islamic Revolution, the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq War, and the 2009 Green
Movement - the author concentrates on the relations between symbols
of the ritual performance and the public sphere to shed light on
the ways in which the symbols of Ta'ziyeh were used to claim
political legitimacy. Thus, the book elucidates how symbols and
images of a ritual performance can be utilised by 'tricksters',
such as political actors and fanatical religious leaders, to take
advantage of the prolongation of a state of transition within a
society, and so manipulate the public in order to mobilise crowds
and movements to fulfil their own interests and concerns. An
insightful analysis of political mobilisation explained in terms of
a set of interrelated master concepts such as 'liminality',
'trickster' and 'schismogenesis', Power, Legitimacy and the Public
Sphere integrates theoretical, empirical and 'diagnostic'
perspectives in order to investigate and illustrate links between
the public sphere and religious and cultural rituals. As such, it
will appeal to scholars of sociology, politics and anthropology
with interests in social theory, public mobilisations and political
transformation.
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