Political oratory and cartooning : an ethnography of democratic processes in madagascar /

• Main Author: Jackson, Jennifer (Jennifer L.)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Malden, MA : Wiley - Blackwell, 2013.
• Series: New directions in ethnography ; 4.
• Subjects: 1992-2010; Presidents > Madagascar > Election.; Political campaigns > Madagascar.; Political consultants > Madagascar.; POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Process > Elections.; POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Process > General.; Political campaigns.; Political consultants.; Politics and government; Presidents > Election.; Madagascar > Politics and government > 1992-2010.; Madagascar.; Electronic books.

Jackson traces the lively skirmishes between Madagascar's political cartoonists and politicians whose cartooning and public oratory reveal an ever-shifting barometer of democracy in the island nation. It is the first anthropological study of the role of language and rhetoric in reshaping democr...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: "Look out! The sleeping locusts awake"
• 2. A history of language and politics in Madagascar
• 3. The structural and social organization of kabary politika
• 4. The structural and social organization of kisarisary politika (political cartooning)
• 5. Building publics through interanimating and shifting registers
• 6. "Stop acting like a slave" : the ideological and aesthetic dimensions of syntax and register in political kabary and political cartooning
• 7. "That's what you think" : arguing representations of truth in language
• 8. Conclusion: The constraints and possibilities of democracy.