Crowds: Ethnographic Encounters

ISBN-13: 9781350002340 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 216 str.

Megan Steffen

Opis

What exactly is a crowd? How do crowds differ from other large gatherings of people? And how do they transform emotions, politics, or faith?

Spis treści

FiguresContributorsForeword - John Borneman, Series EditorAcknowledgements0. Introduction - Megan Steffen, User Experience Researcher, Mountain View, CA, USA1. The Syrian Revolution: Crowds, the Political Field, the Political Subject - John Borneman, Princeton University, USA2. The Disappearance of the Crowd and the Rise of Dissent in Thailand - Tyrell Haberkorn, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA3. Spectacles of Piety: Prayer and the Politics of Mass Arousal in Democratic Nigeria - Ebenezer Obadare, University of Kansas, USA 4. Crowds and Transformations: On the Pious Crowds of the Hajj - Abdellah Hammoudi, Princeton University, USA5. “Too Many People”: Crowds and Cliques in Contemporary China - Megan Steffen, User Experience Researcher, Mountain View, CA, USA6. Regarding Others: Metro Crowds, Metro Publics, Metro Mobs - Rashmi Sadana, George Mason University, USA7. Emotional Entrainment in Crowds and Other Social Formations - Douglas Hollan, UCLA, USA8. Enduring Crowds: The Ritual Molding of the Anthropos in the Prolonging of Political Protest - Bjørn Thomassen, Roskilde University, Denmark9. The Ethics of the Digital: Crowds and Popular Justice in Bangladesh Nusrat - Sabina Chowdhury, Amherst College, USA10. Death on the Bund: Crowd Control and the Chinese Dream in Shanghai - Scott Moskowitz, Princeton University, USAGuide to Further Reading - Megan Steffen, User Experience Researcher, Mountain View, CA, USASelected BibliographyNotes

O autorze

Megan Steffen is an Independent Scholar, and received her PhD in Anthropology from Princeton University, USA.