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• W786235485 abstract "In early March of 2011, a crowd of thousands huddled in the cold around the State Capitol Building in Madison, Wisconsin, and chanted, in call-and-response fashion, a series of now familiar labor union rallying cries. A lone voice would shout, When worker's rights are under attack, what do we do? and the throng would emphatically reply, Stand up, fight back! Another voice asked What's disgusting? and the crowd, with rhyme and rhythm, countered, Union-busting! A third voice began, people, united and the crowd joined in, . . will never be defeated! It was a powerful display of vocalized and performed union solidarity, if not an entirely unfamiliar one to scholars of American labor movements and protest folklore. Already 2011 was shaping up to be a year defined by protest and demonstration the world over, and, in some respects, what happened in Madison was part of both ongoing tensions at a national level and a labor protest tradition. In other respects, though, what happened in Madison was unique, and, out of context, unfamiliar. New chants rose up from the crowd, innovative and lacking resonance outside of the Wisconsin situation: Forward the crowds cried, Not Backward! We fish one voice would yell, and ... through ice! the crowd called back. Walker is a weasel, I heard, day after day, as I visited the demonstrations, Not a Badger!When faced with situations in which they feel their civic and political voices are threatened or stifled, individuals sharing a common interest will often assert their voice and opinion through alternative avenues. Through shared action, argument, and public demonstration, these individuals form a vernacular counterpublic-a group resisting official doctrine or authority but one also, like any other, defined through shared symbols of values and identity. In the 2011 Wisconsin Budget Bill Protests, protestors opposed the policies, actions, and talking points of a government that claimed to speak on behalf of the state of Wisconsin; in asserting their dissent, then, they drew upon traditional markers of Wisconsin identity and culture, signifying their superior claim to true Wisconsin practices and ideals. The use of shared symbols like the state's concise motto (Forward) to resist policies they saw as moving the state (with a proud Progressive political history) backwards, the popular midwinter past-time of ice-fishing to describe their dogged determination,1 and the image of a badger-both the state's official animal and mascot of its flagship public university-to sharply distinguish the state Governor as a treacherous outsider exemplified a larger theme in the protest campaign;2 through continual performance and evocation of Wisconsin folk practices and symbols, demonstrators sought to re-claim the authority to speak for the region. As seven large paper-cut letters reading WE ARE WI hung amidst hundreds of other handmade protest signs in the capitol rotunda, individuals rallied together around the constitutive boast {We are Wisconsin!), developing a group identity through, yes, chants, but also though songs, costumes, jokes, handmade signs, and more.In this brief essay, I seek to highlight how the individual Wisconsin protestors drew upon Wisconsin folklore as a means of asserting political authority and regional legitimacy, and how this use of folklore in protest as a means of highlighting shared values encouraged and cemented a sense of group identity among these individuals in remarkably swift, heartfelt, and lasting ways. In response to a series of policies and actions by governmental figures that they perceived as limiting their ability to voice opinions and concerns through formally sanctioned channels, protestors sought alternative avenues for civic engagement and for expression of both voice and identity (perhaps more vigorously than they otherwise might). In the Wisconsin example, we see protestors expressing voice and identity through evocation of, performance of, and reference to shared folkloric knowledge; protest was performed through the embodiment of regional culture, and this collective embodiment served a constitutive role. …" @default.
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• W786235485 title "Badgers vs. Weasels, and Snowmen for Democracy: Folklore and Embodiment in the 2011 Wisconsin Budget Bill Protests" @default.
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