The art of civil action : political space and cultural dissent / Philipp Dietachmair & Pascal Gielen (eds.) ; with contributions by Andrew Barnett [and sixteen others] ; translation, Esther Banev [and three others].

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Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Original language: Multiple languages Series: Antennae series ; no. 24.Publisher: Amsterdam : Valiz, 2017Description: 351 pages : illustrations ; 21 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

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volume

ISBN:

9789492095398
9492095394

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DDC classification:

306.2 DIE

LOC classification:

NX180.P64 A78 2017
HM881 .A7 2017

Summary: Civil society around the world is increasingly dealing with global questions, whereby it also begins to assume transnational forms of organisation. The arts, with their ability to project alternative realities and communicate ideas, can play a key role in addressing public and political problems. In looking at different platforms, activist groups, and new forms of citizens? initiatives, this book asks how cultural and art initiatives can both question and strengthen the civil domain. Social scientists, cultural theorists, activists, and artists explore how arts and culture can offer various strategies and forms of organisation for a locally rooted society in a globally connected context.

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Standard Loan	LSAD Library Main Collection	306.2 DIE (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		39002100677625
Standard Loan	LSAD Library Main Collection	306.2 DIE (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		39002100678060

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The Art of Civil Action Civil space covers a heterogeneous field of action that is under constant negotiation. It exists beyond government regulations and market forces, and serves people and communities to engage with socioeconomic and political issues that concern them. The manifold crises of the past decade have made civil space more relevant again as a place of expressing controversy and dissent. The arts, with their ability to project alternative realities, can play a key role in addressing issues within this context. Looking at various artistic practices, activist platforms and new citizens' initiatives, this book asks how cultural workers and artists can determine the civil domain. How do they put the 'art' of civil action into practice? What strategies can such initiatives adopt in order to increase their local influence and gain more global significance? Cultural theorists, activists and artists explore how they can provide the building blocks for a locally rooted civil society in a globally connected setting. Book jacket.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Civil society around the world is increasingly dealing with global questions, whereby it also begins to assume transnational forms of organisation. The arts, with their ability to project alternative realities and communicate ideas, can play a key role in addressing public and political problems. In looking at different platforms, activist groups, and new forms of citizens? initiatives, this book asks how cultural and art initiatives can both question and strengthen the civil domain. Social scientists, cultural theorists, activists, and artists explore how arts and culture can offer various strategies and forms of organisation for a locally rooted society in a globally connected context.

Translated from various languages.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

Introduction: Public, Civil and Civic Spaces (p. 11)
Part 1 Understanding Civil Cultures
The Civil Potency of a Singular Experience: On the Role of Cultural Organizations in Transnational Civil Undertakings (p. 39)
In the Absence of Culture There Can Be No Political Community: A Conversation with (p. 67)
Transnational Activism through the Arts: More a Potential Than a Reality (p. 95)
Beyond the Violence of Colonial Civility: Examining the Art of Raven Davis (p. 115)
Part 2 Getting on the Ground
Artistic Spaces of Civil Action
To Give a Voice: A Conversation with Stefan Kaegi of Rimini Protokoll (p. 145)
Recetas Urbanas: 'Urban Recipes' for an Active Citizenry (p. 165)
Regional Experiences of Cultural Activism
Contradictions in Russian Cultural Politics: Conservatism as an Instrument of Neoliberalism (p. 187)
From Independent Cultural Work to Political Subjectivity: A Conversation with (p. 207)
On 'Social Culture' in Poland (p. 231)
Rethinking Relationships: The Civic Role of Arts Organizations in England (p. 255)
Performance of Dissent: From Cultural Resilience to Catharsis and Reconciliation in the Former Yugoslavia Milena Dragicevic Sesic in conversation with (p. 279)
A Stage for Resistance: The Cultural Scene in Turkey (p. 307)
Contributors (p. 325)
Antennae-Arts in Society Book Series (p. 335)
Index (p. 339)
Colophon (p. 347)