New Perspectives on Power and Political Representation from Ancient History to the Present Day

Repertoires of Representation
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-29195-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 9, 206 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 454 g

Reihe: Radboud Studies in Humanities

New Perspectives on Power and Political Representation from Ancient History to the Present Day offers a unique perspective on political communication between rulers and ruled from antiquity to the present day by putting the concept of representation center stage. It explores the dynamic relationship between elites and the people as it was shaped by constructions of self-representation and representative claims.
The contributors to this volume – specialists in ancient, medieval, early-modern and modern history – move away from reductionist associations of political representation with formal aspects of modern, democratic, electoral, and parliamentarian politics. Instead, they contend that the construction of political representation involves a set of discourses, practices, and mechanisms that, although they have been applied and appropriated in various ways in a range of historical contexts, has stood the test of time.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Slootjes, Daniëlle

Kaal, Harm

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politische Kommunikation und Partizipation
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Acknowledgements

List of Figures

Contributors

1 Introduction: Repertoires of Representation

Harm Kaal and Daniëlle Slootjes

2 Emperors and Councillors: Imperial Representation between Republic and Empire

Olivier Hekster

3 Politics of Access at the Court of the Caliph

Maaike van Berkel

4 Representative Bodies in Medieval Religious Orders: A Discarded Legacy?

Bert Roest

5 The Political Rhetoric of Capitals: Rome and Versailles in the Baroque Period, or the “Power of Place”

Peter Rietbergen

6 Repertoires of Access in Princely Courts, 1400-1750

Dries Raeymaekers and Sebastiaan Derks

7 The Image of Prime Minister Colijn: Public Visualisation of Political Leadership in the 1930s

Marij Leenders and Joris Gijsenbergh

8 Postwar Popular Politics: Integrating the Voice of the People in Postwar Political History

Harm Kaal and Vincent van de Griend

9 Majdan: Presence and Political Representation in Post-Communist Ukraine

Wim van Meurs and Olga Morozova

10 Regulation without Representation? Independent Regulatory Authorities and Representative Claim-Making in the Netherlands, 1997-now

Adriejan van Veen

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Harm Kaal, Ph.D. (2008), VU University Amsterdam, is associate professor of Political History at Radboud University Nijmegen. He has recently published on popular politics, the scientization of the political, and the history of electoral culture and acts as co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Applied History.

Daniëlle Slootjes, Ph.D. (2004), Chapel Hill, is associate professor of Ancient and Medieval History at Radboud University Nijmegen. She has published extensively on late antique Roman administration, geography, the history of early Christianity and crowd behavior in the period of Late Antiquity and the Byzantine Empire.

Contributors: Olivier Hekster, Maaike van Berkel, Bert Roest, Peter Rietbergen, Dries Raeymaekers, Sebastiaan Derks, Marij Leenders, Joris Gijsenbergh, Vincent van de Griend, Wim van Meurs, Olga Morozova, Adriejan van Veen.