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... conducted in several of Turkey's major urban centers. The figure of the secularist crowd provides an image of secularism grounded not in the coercive apparatuses of the military and the modernizing bureaucracy but in an assertion of populism. This article explores the tentative formation of a secular...

... in the history of Filipino nationalism. The Cell Phone and the Crowd: Messianic Politics in the Contemporary Philippines Vicente L. Rafael This essay explores a set of telecommunicative fantasies...

...Setrag Manoukian Through a discussion of crowds and audio-vision in post-election Iran, the essay places the relationship between experience and politics at the center of current events in the country and analyzes the powerful but dispersed combination of crowds, images, sounds, voices, bodies...

...Omer Shah Abstract In the holy city of Mecca, crowds and numbers matter. A hadith, or saying of the Prophet, reports that when pilgrims number fewer than seven hundred thousand, angels will perform the rituals in their stead. One of the names of Mecca is umm al-zuhm or “Mother of Crowds.” Thinking...

...figure 4 The crowd confronts a young man accused of being a thief. Video stills by the author. ...

...Irmelin Joelsson Abstract Cities like Dar es Salaam are crucibles for a heterogeneous crowd of unformed potential where urban futures can arrive from any quarter, bridge, or beach. Rending visible the affordances of a place known as Minazini Beach, this essay provisionally “gathers” a set...

... campaign city streets, attracting huge crowds of spectators who stand potentially mobile, poised as if waiting for some inci- dent to rush toward - in Central Javanese terms, gumrubyug: the unmis- takable sound of a crowd on the move, piropelled by an energy all its own. In the midst of the 1982...

... own in the late nineteenth century, with the advent of mass society. Early crowd theory elaborates on the frightening scenarios that the loss of autonomy of “I” might result in: random violence, looting, political mayhem, and more. Again and again, these works worry over and work through...

... and management comingle to produce a hybrid techno-politics that centers around the scientific “crowd management” and Islamic jurisprudence governing the movement of pilgrims and the timing of various rituals. Shah opens his essay with a description of the new university campus and the Makkah Techno Valley...

... that economic periods were keyed to oscillations between optimistic and pessimistic sentiments in the behavior of crowds, building on the social psychology inaugurated by Gustave Le Bon in his 1896 book The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind , which suggested that crowds were prone to unreason, hyperactive...

... and in a sense the biggest issue is the Five Year Plan.”10 Crowd action was no longer political in Nehru’s reckoning; it was merely an act of hooliganism carried out in the name of politics. As he put it to the students in Patna: “Now how do you...

... Yingdan , and Pan Jennifer . 2021 . “ Capturing Clicks: How the Chinese Government Uses Clickbait to Compete for Visibility .” Political Communication 38 , no. 1–2 : 23 – 54 . McPhail Clark . 2017 . The Myth of the Madding Crowd . New York : Routledge . Pan Jennifer...

... of Arab cultural production, especially in the Palestinian context, and its performance to both local and international crowds. It engages with a long-standing debate in ethnomusicology and cultural studies about balancing the preservation of localized authenticity with the advancement of universal...

... of financial mania popularly embodied by texts such as Charles Mackay’s 1841 Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds. In the contemporary and widely disseminated depictions of the South Sea Bubble of 1720, this fear appeared...

..., a movement of political ideologies, a movement of practices of everyday life, and a movement of real people. On the Day of Recruiting The crowd stood fast at the factory gate. Three factory guards, male, tall, and strong...

...; I didn’t see it. Raanan, standing just below me on the hill, thinks it may have been a Musta’rib, an Israeli soldier dis- guised as a Palestinian, planted in the crowd in order to incite and turn the dem- onstration violent...

... reflected in the urban middle-class discourse regarding the lower classes. A new term emerged to designate this heterogenous lower-class population: the bakya crowd. Coined in the early 1960s by Filipino film director and national artist Lamberto...

... other, each approximately five blocks long, and crowded with more than five hundred vending stands, thousands of shoppers, and performance artists. There are millet beer vendors, tourist art merchants, vendors of original textiles from Burkina Faso (called Fuso Dun Funi), condom...

... of the ceremonies of a 56 Public Culture court closed to commoners, Tiananmen Square offers ritual representations of popular government. During the forty years of Communist rule, it has been a place to which 'the people' came in large crowds to witness displays...