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Staging Politics: Power and Performance in Asia and Africa (International Library of Political Studies)

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Staging Politics: Power and Performance in Asia and Africa (International Library of Political Studies)

Staging Politics: Power and Performance in Asia and Africa (International Library of Political Studies) by Julia C. Strauss
English | 2007 | ISBN: 1845113675, 9781845113674 | 288 Pages | PDF | 12.42 MB

This fresh and original study analyses how power presents itself in dramatic performance in these two increasingly economically and politically important continents.   Emotion and politics play a hugely important role in the politics of Asia and Africa but, as this book sets out, too much of western political research into the subject concentrates on apparent deficiencies - on the weakness of institutions, defects in the bureaucracy or markets, poor management of elections, absent judicial autonomy.  Viewing political performance through Western eyes in this way - where politics is primarily about the naked pursuit of power and interests - can lead to a misunderstanding of how politics actually works in Africa and Asia, where process plays a far more important role.  Thus performance, drama and emotion are far more integral to political outcome there than in the West.  By concentrating on this new perspective the authors, each a recognised specialist in one or more states in Asia and Africa, avoid this trap and offer a coherent picture of the impact political performance has on the culture and politics of these societies and how they function.