[IMCnetwork] Slow Anti-Americanism: Social Movements and Symbolic Politics in Central Asia | Edward Schatz

[Nick Cheesman]

Hi everyone

Some of you may have seen it already but I've just been alerted to a new 
and interesting looking book by Ed Schatz (who edited the excellent 
/Political Ethnography /volume some years back), /Slow Anti-Americanism: 
/https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=32282

 From the blurb: "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."

Nick


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