Political Sentiments and Social Movements The Person in Politics and Culture [Hardcover]

This unique volume is about how ordinary people construct political meanings, form political emotions and identities, and become involved in or disengaged from political contests. Drawing on psychological anthropology, it illustrates the complexities of political subjectivities through engaging personal stories that complicate our understanding of the relationship between culture and politics. Chapters examine the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street in the United States, third gender activism in India, Rastafari in Jamaica, Courage to Refuse in Israel, the environmental movement in the U.S., Salafi movements in northern Nigeria, post-socialist labor politics in Romania, and anti-immigrant activism in Denmark.

1. Introduction: The Person in Politics and Culture?

Part I: Political Sentiments

2. The Meanings of Social Movements for Bystanders: The Case of Occupy Wall Street? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ??

3. Progressives' Plantation: The Tea Partys Complex Relationship with Race?

4. Re-Figuring the Public, Political, and Personal in Current Danish Exclusionary Reasoning?

5. Feeling Populist: Navigating Political Subjectivity in Post-Socialist Romania

6. Sensory Politics and War: Affective Anchoring and Vitality in Nigeria and Kuwait

7. The Ungendered Self: Sex Reassignment, The Third Gender, and Gender Fluidity in India

Part II: Becoming a Political Actor?

8. Mediating Moralities: Inter-subjectivities in Israeli Soldiers' Narratives of the Occupatl“+