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Slow Anti-Americanism - Social Movements and Symbolic Politics in Central Asia (Paperback)
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Slow Anti-Americanism - Social Movements and Symbolic Politics in Central Asia (Paperback)
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Negative views of the United States abound, but we know too little
about how such views affect politics. Drawing on careful research
on post-Soviet Central Asia, Edward Schatz argues that
anti-Americanism is best seen not as a rising tide that swamps or
as a conflagration that overwhelms. Rather, "America" is a symbolic
resource that resides quietly in the mundane but always has
potential value for social and political mobilizers. Using a wide
range of evidence and a novel analytic framework, Schatz considers
how Islamist movements, human rights activists, and labor
mobilizers across Central Asia avail themselves of this fact, thus
changing their ability to pursue their respective agendas. By
refocusing our analytic gaze away from high politics, he affords us
a clearer view of the slower-moving, partially occluded, and
socially embedded processes that ground how "America" becomes
political. In turn, we gain a nuanced appreciation of the
downstream effects of US foreign policy choices and a sober sense
of the challenges posed by the politics of traveling images. Most
treatments of anti-Americanism focus on politics in the realm of
presidential elections and foreign policies. By focusing instead on
symbols, Schatz lays bare how changing public attitudes shift
social relations in politically significant ways, and considers how
changing symbolic depictions of the United States recombine the raw
material available for social mobilizers. Just like sediment
traveling along waterways before reaching its final destination,
the raw material that constitutes symbolic America can travel among
various social groups, and can settle into place to form the basis
of new social meanings. Symbolic America, Schatz shows us, matters
for politics in Central Asia and beyond.
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