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  title info:
    title: Driven to their knees
    sub title: humiliation in contemporary politics
  name:
    name part: Euben, Roxanne Leslie
    name part: 1966-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
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      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nju
    date issued: 2025
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource
  abstract: "How the rhetoric of humiliation defines the powerful and the powerless in modern politics. Humiliation pervades our politics, from images of stripped Palestinian men in Gaza to mocking chants at MAGA rallies. It suffuses pictures and videos, speaks through bodies as well as words, and is expressed by those with too much power as well as by those with too little. In Driven to Their Knees, Roxanne Euben takes readers from conflicts in the Arabic-speaking world to America's divided public square, advancing a theory of humiliation rooted in the ways people articulate and enact it. She analyzes some of the most conspicuous but least studied Arabic expressions of humiliation, drawing on sources that range from Qur'anic commentary by Islamists to anonymous tweets during the 2011 Egyptian revolution, videos to poetry, slogans to songs. Driven to Their Knees reveals what the language of humiliation says--and also how it works. It shows how humiliation expresses the imposition of impotence by those with undeserved power and how it is a matter not just of power but virility. The rhetoric of humiliation defines both the humiliated and the humiliator and issues an urgent call for a remedy in the viscerally charged language of emasculation. For Donald Trump and Usama bin Laden alike, this means driving their enemy to his knees for all to see, and then boasting about it to compound the degradation. But for others, humiliation galvanizes their struggle to "stand erect," uniting them in a refusal to be bowed low"-- Provided by publisher.
  table of contents: Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Transliteration and Spelling -- 1. Introduction: What's in a Word? -- 2. A Theodicy for Powerlessness: Islamist Discourse and Retaliatory Humiliation -- 3. Spectacles of Sovereignty: ISIS Executions, Visual Rhetoric, and Sovereign Power -- 4. ""Our Dignity Is Humiliated"": A Phenomenology of Humiliation in the Egyptian Revolution -- 5. Conclusion: Humiliation, Dignity, and Embodiment -- Bibliography -- Index
  note: Roxanne L. Euben.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Power (Social sciences)
  subject:
    topic: Humiliation
    topic: Political aspects
  subject:
    topic: Rhetoric
    topic: Political aspects
  subject:
    topic: Political culture
  subject:
    topic: Humiliation
    topic: Aspect politique
  subject:
    topic: Discours politique
  subject:
    topic: POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory
  subject:
    topic: POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Middle Eastern
  classification: JC330 .E93 2025
  classification: 303.3
  classification: POL010000
  classification: POL059000
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    title info:
      title: Driven to their knees
    name:
      name part: Euben, Roxanne Leslie, 1966-
    origin info:
      publisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2025]
    identifier: (DLC) 2024053796
  identifier: 9780691275154 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 0691275157
  identifier: 9780691183688
  identifier: 9780691276045
  identifier: 2024053797
  identifier: 22573/cats25510963 JSTOR
  location:
    physical location: POD
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 250429
    record change date: 20250927173620.8
    record identifier: in00005664338
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng