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Global Injustice Symbols and Social Movements

Part of the Cultural Sociology Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9781137481177

ISBN: 978-1-349-50279-0

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US - Springer Journals

Oct 19, 2015

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Chapter 1Global Injustice Symbols

Olesen, Thomas

Pages: 1 –37

[Abu Ghraib, Charlie Hebdo Guantanamo Bay, My Lai, Malala Yousafzai, Mohamed Bouazizi, the Muhammad cartoons, Neda Agha Soltan, Nelson Mandela, Rodney King, the Rwandan genocide, Sharpeville—at first glance the names on this list do not seem to have much in common. Yet, despite the glaring...
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Chapter 2Political Iconography

Olesen, Thomas

Pages: 39 –65

[When Nelson Mandela, defying failing health and the loss of his great-granddaughter only weeks earlier, attended the final and closing ceremony at the football 2010 World Cup in South Africa, he was greeted with standing ovation and worldwide media attention. His appearance despite personal...
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Chapter 3Grievance Communities

Olesen, Thomas

Pages: 67 –90

[Since its inception at the beginning of the so-called war on terror in 2002, the detention camp at Guantanamo Bay has been subjected to harsh criticism and condemnation from many quarters. Guantanamo Bay has had a decidedly global status from the outset because of its central role in the...
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Chapter 4Moral Memories

Olesen, Thomas

Pages: 91 –114

[As the world, over the summer of 1994, began to realize the scope and severity of the Rwandan genocide (most estimates today set the death toll between 500,000 and 1,000,000), accounts of the horrors were routinely followed by two questions: How could it happen and, then, how could we let it...
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Chapter 5Dramatic Diffusion

Olesen, Thomas

Pages: 115 –137

[When 26-year-old Neda Agha Soltan went into the streets of Tehran to protest fraudulent presidential elections on June 20, 2009, she was just one among thousands of aggrieved Iranians. At the end of that day, however, she had been catapulted to the global public sphere and transformed into a...
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Chapter 6A Global Society?

Olesen, Thomas

Pages: 139 –157

[Chapter 1 argued that the study of global injustice symbols and global social movements is sociologically important because it enables an empirically grounded discussion of global society. This reflects the Durkheimian foundation of the book, which indicates that the analysis of symbols is,...

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