Global Injustice Symbols and Social Movements
Global Injustice Symbols and Social Movements examines our collective moral and political maps, dotted with symbols shaped by political dynamics beyond their local or national origin and offers the first systematic sociological treatment of this important
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Global Injustice Symbols and Social Movements
THOMAS OLESEN
GLOBAL INJUSTICE SYMBOLS AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
Copyright © Thomas Olesen, 2015. Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2015 978-1-137-48116-0 All rights reserved. Thomas Olesen (2011). “Transnational Injustice Symbols and Communities: The Case of al-Qaeda and the Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp,” Current Sociology 59(6): 717–734. Thomas Olesen (2012). “Global Injustice Memories: The case of Rwanda,” International Political Sociology 6(4): 373–389. Thomas Olesen (2014). “Dramatic Diffusion and Meaning Adaptation: The Case of Neda Agha Soltan,” in Donatella della Porta and Alice Mattoni (eds.), Spreading Protest: Social Movements in a Time of Crisis, pp. 71–90. Colchester: ECPR Press. First published in 2015 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN® in the United States— a division of St. Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Where this book is distributed in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world, this is by Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN 978-1-349-50279-0 ISBN 978-1-137-48117-7 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9781137481177 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Olesen, Thomas, 1969– Global injustice symbols and social movements / by Thomas Olesen. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Social movements. 2. Social justice. 3. Symbolism— Political aspects. 4. Signs and symbols—Political aspects. I. Title. HM881.O45 2015 303.484—dc23
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For my girls—Lene, Alma, and Nora
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Contents Series Editor’s Preface
ix
Acknowledgments
xi
1. Global Injustice Symbols
1
2. Political Iconography
39
3. Grievance Communities
67
4. Moral Memories
91
5. Dramatic Diffusion
115
6. A Global Society?
139
Notes
159
References
169
Index
187
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Series Editor’s Preface We are all aware of powerful images of injustice that come to us from outside of ourselves, circulating round the globe—a young Iranian women, Neda Agha Soltan, lies murdered on the ground, open-eyed, with blood streaming from her head; an incarcerated African hero, Nelson Mandela, towers over the heads of his jailers, seeing the future o
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