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Explores antagonistic encounters between people, both individuals and groups, and governments.
In the form of demonstrations, social movements, guerrilla warfare, and internet "hacktivism," political dissidents or "counterpublics" challenge the state and assert themselves upon the public stage. At stake in such engagements are profound issues of political and economic redistribution, individual and collective rights, political legitimacy, social stability, and identity. This book explores encounters between marginalized people and states to better understand the contours of social controversy and social transformation borne from conflict.
"At the beginning of the previous century, John Dewey was concerned about the public and its problems. Dewey's concerns, it turns out, are more relevant now than ever. One of the great strengths of Counterpublics and the State is that its contributors update the entire discussion in light of new issues and, especially, new communication technologies. I suspect this is a book Dewey would have hoped that every citizen would read." — Eric Gander, Baruch College
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Reconfigurations in the Public Sphere
Robert Asen and Daniel C. Brouwer
I. Conflicted Encounters
Chapter 1. Prisoners of Conscience and the Counterpublic Sphere of Prison Writing: The Stones that Start the Avalanche
Gerard A. Hauser
Chapter 2. ACT-ing UP in Congressional Hearings
Daniel C. Brouwer
Chapter 3. The Black Press and the State: Attracting Unwanted (?) Attention
Catherine Squires
Chapter 4. Representing the State in South Central Los Angeles
Robert Asen
II. New Communication Technologies and Globalization
Chapter 5. Cyber-movements, New Social Movements, and Counterpublics
Catherine Helen Palczewski
Chapter 6. Crafting a Virtual Counterpublic: Right-to-Die Advocates on the Internet
Todd. F. McDorman
Chapter 7. A Structural Transformation for a Global Public Sphere? The Use of New Communication Technologies by Non-Governmental Organizations and the United Nations
Marie A. Mater
Chapter 8. Doing Away with Suharto – And the Twins Myths of Globalization and the New Social Movements
Dana L. Cloud
Chapter 9. In the Name of Reconciliation: The Faith and Works of Counterpublicity
Erik Doxtader
Contributors
Index