Slow Anti-Americanism
Slow Anti-Americanism Negative views of the United States abound, but we know too little about how such views affect politics. Rather, America is a symbolic resource that resides quietly in the…
Specifikacia Slow Anti-Americanism
Slow Anti-Americanism
Negative views of the United States abound, but we know too little about how such views affect politics. Rather, America is a symbolic resource that resides quietly in the mundane but always has potential value for social and political mobilizers. Drawing on careful research on post-Soviet Central Asia, Edward Schatz argues that anti-Americanism is best seen not as a rising tide that swamps or as a conflagration that overwhelms.
By refocusing our analytic gaze away from high politics, he affords us a clearer view of the slower-moving, partially occluded, and socially embedded processes that ground how America becomes Using a wide range of evidence and a novel analytic framework, Schatz considers how Islamist movements, human rights activists, and labor mobilizers across Central Asia avail themselves of this fact, thus changing their ability to pursue their respective agendas.