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The Design of Protest : Choreographing Political Demonstrations in Public Space / Tali Hatuka.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Austin : University of Texas Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource (352 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781477315774
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 720.1/03 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Organization of the Book -- Acknowledgments -- PART I. Planning Protests -- Chapter 1. Challenging Distance -- Chapter 2. Choosing a Place -- Chapter 3. Enhancing the Impact -- Chapter 4. Bargaining Power -- PART II. Spatial Choreographies -- Chapter 5. Staging the Action -- Chapter 6. Spectacles -- Chapter 7. Processions -- Chapter 8. Place-Making -- PART III. Continuum -- Chapter 9. Performing Protestability -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Public protests are a vital tool for asserting grievances and creating temporary, yet tangible, communities as the world becomes more democratic and urban in the twenty-first century. While the political and social aspects of protest have been extensively studied, little attention has been paid to the physical spaces in which protests happen. Yet place is a crucial aspect of protests, influencing the dynamics and engagement patterns among participants. In The Design of Protest, Tali Hatuka offers the first extensive discussion of the act of protest as a design: that is, a planned event in a space whose physical geometry and symbolic meaning are used and appropriated by its organizers, who aim to challenge socio-spatial distance between political institutions and the people they should serve. Presenting case studies from around the world, including Tiananmen Square in Beijing; the National Mall in Washington, DC; Rabin Square in Tel Aviv; and the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires, Hatuka identifies three major dimensions of public protests: the process of planning the protest in a particular place; the choice of spatial choreography of the event, including the value and meaning of specific tactics; and the challenges of performing contemporary protests in public space in a fragmented, complex, and conflicted world. Numerous photographs, detailed diagrams, and plans complement the case studies, which draw upon interviews with city officials, urban planners, and protesters themselves.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Organization of the Book -- Acknowledgments -- PART I. Planning Protests -- Chapter 1. Challenging Distance -- Chapter 2. Choosing a Place -- Chapter 3. Enhancing the Impact -- Chapter 4. Bargaining Power -- PART II. Spatial Choreographies -- Chapter 5. Staging the Action -- Chapter 6. Spectacles -- Chapter 7. Processions -- Chapter 8. Place-Making -- PART III. Continuum -- Chapter 9. Performing Protestability -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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Public protests are a vital tool for asserting grievances and creating temporary, yet tangible, communities as the world becomes more democratic and urban in the twenty-first century. While the political and social aspects of protest have been extensively studied, little attention has been paid to the physical spaces in which protests happen. Yet place is a crucial aspect of protests, influencing the dynamics and engagement patterns among participants. In The Design of Protest, Tali Hatuka offers the first extensive discussion of the act of protest as a design: that is, a planned event in a space whose physical geometry and symbolic meaning are used and appropriated by its organizers, who aim to challenge socio-spatial distance between political institutions and the people they should serve. Presenting case studies from around the world, including Tiananmen Square in Beijing; the National Mall in Washington, DC; Rabin Square in Tel Aviv; and the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires, Hatuka identifies three major dimensions of public protests: the process of planning the protest in a particular place; the choice of spatial choreography of the event, including the value and meaning of specific tactics; and the challenges of performing contemporary protests in public space in a fragmented, complex, and conflicted world. Numerous photographs, detailed diagrams, and plans complement the case studies, which draw upon interviews with city officials, urban planners, and protesters themselves.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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