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The book explores the concept of artistic witnessing as political activity. In which ways may art and artists bear witness to political events? The Contributors engage with dance, film, photography, performance, poetry and theatre and explore artistic witnessing as political activity in a wide variety of case studies. Dr. Kia Lindroos is Professor in the Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Dr. Frank Möller is Senior Research Fellow at the Tampere Peace Research Institute in the School of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Tampere, Finland.

Rainer Eisfeld's book highlights the merits of socio-historical research into topics infrequently covered by mainstream political science. Directing attention to the need for carefully scrutinizing the convenient "truths" of established - post-Nazi, post-Communist - political narratives, its chapters encourage reflection of the discipline's history and state of the art. A companion volume to the 2012 book entitled Radical Approaches to Political Science: Roads Less Traveled (also published by Barbara Budrich), this collection is likewise based on an approach to political science informed by a theory of participatory pluralism and grounded in history. The chapters focus on the discipline's fragmentation and its retreat from public debate; on the varying roles of political science and international relations as champions of more or less democracy; on normative and analytical concepts developed by Hannah Arendt, Klaus von Beyme, and Robert A. Dahl; on the deconstruction of the "Peenemünde Legend" about the unspoiled rule of science at the Third Reich's missile development center; on reasons for the Peenemünde engineers' actual complicity in the exploitation of concentration camp labor to mass-produce their V-2 missile. "Rainer Eisfeld's leadership in the fields of pluralism and analysis of the discipline in the International Political Science Association means that he has quite a background to share with us in this, his most recent, collection of essays." John Trent

Abstract: "Western military presence wanes in Afghanistan and a transformed security environment challenges borders and stability in Central Asia. This book examines how the tensions relating to the reorganization of external military presence interact with regional states' ambitions and challenge the borders already contested by numerous dividing lines. It studies a complex political landscape across which radical Islam connected with international terrorism is feared to spread as the international mission initiated in the wake of the 9/11 attacks winds down. As Western military presence wanes in Afghanistan a transformed security environment challenges borders and stability in Central Asia. In this region former Soviet republics seek to consolidate their position by extending their control over politically problematic borderlands, setting up borders in areas where livelihood connections and transborder communities belie such bounding, and by seeking to maximize the independence of their fo Cover Art as a Political Witness List of Contents List of Figures List of Plates Contributors Preface Plate section 1. Witnessing in Contemporary Art and Politics 2. Image Control in the Age of Terror 3. The Body Remembers: Dance, Discourses of Citizenship, Phenomenology and Memory 4. Chris Marker as Cinematic Witness 5. Embodied Witnessing: Indigenous Performance Art as Political Dissent 6. Art as Remembrance and Trace in Post-Conflict Latin America 7. Achrafiyeh Invaded – The Politics of Fear in a Visual Representation of Lebanese Factionalism 8. Witnessing Language: Charles Bernstein and 9/11 9. Bearing Witness and Playing in Ruins: On the Onto-Poetics of Abandoned Places 10. Children Witnessing War: Emotions Embodied in the Theatre Play Wij/Zij 11. The Violence of Witnessing This collection of essays is based on an approach grounded in history and informed by a theory of participatory pluralism. The included essays are based on an approach to political science informed by a theory of participatory pluralism and grounded in history. Chapters focus on the discipline's fragmentation and its retreat from public debate; on the varying and contradictory roles of political science and international relations as champion of more or less democracy in the United Kingdom, the United States, and both Weimar and post-WW II Germany; on normative and analytical concepts developed by Hannah Arendt, Klaus von Beyme, and Robert A. Dahl; and more.-- Provided by publisher

Western military presence wanes in Afghanistan and a transformed security environment challenges borders and stability in Central Asia. This book examines how the tensions relating to the reorganization of external military presence interact with regional states' ambitions and challenge the borders already contested by numerous dividing lines. It studies a complex political landscape across which radical Islam connected with international terrorism is feared to spread as the international mission initiated in the wake of the 9/11 attacks winds down.