Social Tragedy The Power of Myth, Ritual, and Emotion in the New Med
A social tragedy is a collective representation of injustice. Baker demonstrates how social tragedies facilitate moral action and discusses a series of contemporary case studies – the death of Princess Diana, Zinédine Zidane's 2006 World Cup scandal, KONY
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Social Tragedy The Power of Myth, Ritual, and Emotion in the New Media Ecology
Stephanie Alice Baker
social tragedy
Copyright © Stephanie Alice Baker, 2014. Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2014 978-1-137-38613-7 All rights reserved. First published in 2014 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 978-1-349-48150-7 ISBN 978-1-137-37913-9 (ebook) DOI 10.1057/9781137379139 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Baker, Stephanie Alice, 1983– Social tragedy : the power of myth, ritual, and emotion in the new media ecology / Stephanie Alice Baker. pages cm.—(Cultural sociology) Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Loss (Psychology)—Social aspects. 2. Collective behavior. 3. Social history. I. Title. BF575.D35B35 2014 155.993—dc23
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To Jack, David, & Jeff
Man is troubled not by events, but by the meaning he gives to them—Epictetus.
Contents Series Editor’s Preface
ix
Acknowledgments
xi
1. Introduction: Plato’s Challenge
1
2. What Is a Social Tragedy?
21
3. Performing Social Tragedy: Exploring the “New British Spirit” a Decade beyond the Death of Princess Diana
47
4. Recalling Social Tragedy: Staging Zinédine Zidane’s Transgression on France’s Postcolonial Arena
75
5. Mediating Social Tragedy: The 2011 English Riots and the Emergence of the “Mediated Crowd”
111
6. Mediation as Moral Education: KONY 2012—Can Social Tragedies Teach?
149
7. Conclusion: Social Tragedy’s Democratic Vision
177
Notes
185
References
203
Index
221
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Series Editor’s Preface In Social Tragedy, Stephanie Baker challenges the deeply misleading dichotomy that contrasts traditional societies, organized around sacred morality, with contemporary societies, where mechanistic rationalization supposedly reigns supreme. Baker demonstrates that Aristotle’s theory of tragedy as collective morality remains critical to core processes in contemporary society, as relevant today as ever before. Employing tools from the new cultural sociology, Baker also updates the classical theory. Rather than being roo
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