7. A Fractured Solidarity: Communitas and Structure in the Israeli 2011 Social Protest

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents iii
3. Figures v
4. Acronyms x
5. Preface xi
6. Timeline of the Global Protests, 2010–13 xiii
7. 1. Introduction 1
8. Part One: the Arab Spring Uprisings and their Aftermaths
9. 2. Teargas, Flags and the Harlem Shake: Images of and for Revolution in Tunisia and the Dialectics of the Local in the Global 31
10. 3. Singing the Revolt in Tahrir Square: Euphoria, Utopia and Revolution 53
11. 4. ‘I Dreamed of Being a People’: Egypt’s Revolution, the People and Critical Imagination 67
12. 5. The Body of the Colonel: Caricature and Incarnation in the Libyan Revolution 93
13. 6. Poetry of Protest: Tribes in Yemen’s ‘Change Revolution’ 121
14. Part Two: Beyond the Arab Spring – Asia and Africa
15. 7. A Fractured Solidarity: Communitas and Structure in the Israeli 2011 Social Protest 147
16. 8. Gandhi, Camera, Action! India’s ‘August Spring’ 177
17. 9. Short Circuits: The Aesthetics of Protest, Media and Martyrdom in Indian Anti-corruption Activism 193
18. 10. ‘The Mother of all Strikes’: Popular Protest Culture and Vernacular Cosmopolitanism in the Botswana Public Service Unions’ Strike, 2011 222
19. Part Three: Beyond the Arab Spring – American and European Protests
20. 11. Vernacular Culture and Grassroots Activism: Non-violent Protest and Progressive Ethos at the 2011 Wisconsin Labour Rallies 263
21. 12. Occupy Wall Street: Carnival Against Capital? Carnivalesque as Protest Sensibility 291
22. 13. Subversion through Performance: Performance Activism in London 320
23. 14. Spain’s Indignados and the Mediated Aesthetics of Non-violence 341
24. 15 The Poetics of Indignation in Greece: Anti-austerity Protest and Accountability 368
25. About the Contributors 389
26. Web Sources for Figures 394
27. Index 396