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Theorizing the Standoff

Contingency in Action

By: Robin Wagner-Pacifici

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Theorizing the Standoff

Contingency in Action

By: Robin Wagner-Pacifici

In this book, theoretical analysis and real life case studies are combined to explore the nature of the standoff.

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300

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Cambridge University Press

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0521654793

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9780521654791

What Is an Event?

By: Robin Wagner-Pacifici

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We live in a world of breaking news, where at almost any moment our everyday routine can be interrupted by a faraway event. Events are central to the way that individuals and societies experience life. Even life’s inevitable moments—birth, death, love, and war—are almost always a surprise. Inspired by the cataclysmic events of September 11, Robin Wagner-Pacifici presents here a tour de force, an analysis of how events erupt and take off from the ground of ongoing, everyday life, and how they then move across time and landscape. What Is an Event? ranges across several disciplines, systematically analyzing the ways that events emerge, take shape, gain momentum, flow, and even get bogged down. As an exploration of how events are constructed out of ruptures, it provides a mechanism for understanding eventful forms and flows, from the micro-level of individual life events to the macro-level of historical revolutions, contemporary terrorist attacks, and financial crises. Wagner-Pacifici takes a close look at a number of cases, both real and imagined, through the reports, personal narratives, paintings, iconic images, political posters, sculptures, and novels they generate and through which they live on. What is ultimately at stake for individuals and societies in events, Wagner-Pacifici argues, are identities, loyalties, social relationships, and our very experiences of time and space. What Is an Event? provides a way for us all—as social and political beings living through events, and as analysts reflecting upon them—to better understand what is at stake in the formations and flows of the events that mark and shape our lives.

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250

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University of Chicago Press

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022643981X

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9780226439815

The Art of Surrender

Decomposing Sovereignty at Conflict's End

By: Robin Wagner-Pacifici

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The Art of Surrender

Decomposing Sovereignty at Conflict's End

By: Robin Wagner-Pacifici

Explores the ritual concessions as acts of warfare, performances of submission, demonstrations of power, and representations of shifting, unstable worlds. The author considers the limits of sovereignty at conflict's end, showing how the ways we concede loss can be as important as the ways we claim victory.

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223

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University of Chicago Press

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0226869792

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9780226869797

The Moro Morality Play

Terrorism as Social Drama

By: Robin Wagner-Pacifici

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The Moro Morality Play

Terrorism as Social Drama

By: Robin Wagner-Pacifici

On March 16, 1978, the former prime minister of Italy, Aldo Moro, was kidnapped by the Red Brigades, and what followed—the fifty-five days of captivity that resulted in Moro's murder—constitutes one of the most striking social dramas of the twentieth century. In this compelling study of terrorism, Robin Wagner-Pacifici employs methods from sociology, symbolic anthropology, and literary criticism to decode the many social "texts" that shaped the event: political speeches, newspaper reports, television and radio news, editorials, photographs, Moro's letters, Red Brigade communiques, and appeals by various international figures. The analysis of these "texts" calls into question the function of politics, social drama, spectacle, and theater. Wagner-Pacifici provides a dramaturgic analysis of the Moro affair as a method for discussing the culture of politics in Italy.

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380

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University of Chicago Press

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0226869849

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9780226869841

What Is an Event?

By: Robin Wagner-Pacifici

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What Is an Event?

By: Robin Wagner-Pacifici

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Discourse and Destruction

The City of Philadelphia Versus MOVE

By: Robin Wagner-Pacifici

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Discourse and Destruction

The City of Philadelphia Versus MOVE

By: Robin Wagner-Pacifici

Preface Acknowledgments 1: A Framework for Articulating Horror 2: What Is MOVE? 3: The Language of Domesticity 4: Bureaucratic Discourse: The Policy, the Plan, the Operation5: The Law and Its Apparatus: Speaking Warrants and Weapons 6: Decarcerating Discourse Notes Bibliography Index.

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