Democracy in Practice: Ceremony and Ritual in Parliaments - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 1137361905 ISBN 13: 9781137361905

Casa editrice: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014

Riassunto

This collection highlights the ways in which parliaments create and maintain powerful symbols of democracy and power. It explores how political and social hierarchies operate within parliaments through ceremonial spectacles, formal and informal rules and rituals, art and architecture. Members are socialized through everyday practices but such institutional disciplining is also challenged performatively – by refusal to participate, by subversion of norms or by rejection of rules. The contributions to this volume highlight that the everyday ritual practices as well as institutional ceremonies have significant political meaning, whether their focus is upon the spectacular or the quotidian. Chapters on opening ceremony, Prime Minister's Questions, on performance of debate and disruption, on the architecture and space of suggest that what has often been seen as the banal backdrop to politics proper, accumulated tradition or necessary rules of procedure, should in fact be the starting-point for our analyses of modern democratic parliaments.

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Shirin M. Rai is Professor in the department of Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick, UK. She directed a Leverhulme Trust funded programme on Gendered Ceremony and Ritual in Parliament (2007-2011). Her research interests are in performance and/of politics, gender and political institutions and gender and the political economy of development. She is the author of The Gender Politics of Development (2008) editor of Ceremony and Ritual in Parliament (2010) and co-editor (with Janelle Reinelt) of The Grammar of Politics and Performance

Dr Rachel E. Johnson is a historian of South African politics. She is currently a Research Associate at the University of Manchester, UK. From 2009-2011 she was Research Associate at the University of Sheffield for the Gendered Ceremony and Ritual in Parliaments programme. From September 2014 she will take up a post as Lecturer in African History at Durham University.

Faith Armitage, University of Manchester, UK Bairavee Balasubramaniam, University of Warwick, UK Sarah Childs, University of Bristol, UK Emma CreweUniversity of Hertfordshire, UK Victoria Hasson's, the Democratic Alliance, South Africa Joni Lovenduski, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK Nirmal Puwar, Goldsmiths, London University, UK Carole Spary, University of York, UK Georgina Waylen, University of Manchester, UK

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Palgrave Macmillan
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1137361905
• ISBN 13: 9781137361905
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 275
• Redattore: Rai Shirin M., Johnson Rachel E.
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