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Record Nr.

UNINA9910889699803321

Autore

Fielder Elizabeth Rodriguez

Titolo

The revolution will be improvised : the intimacy of cultural activism / / Elizabeth Rodriguez Fielder

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ann Arbor : , : University of Michigan Press, , 2024

©2024

ISBN

9780472904662

0472904663

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (245 pages)

Classificazione

PER011000SOC000000SOC001000

Disciplina

303.48/4

Soggetti

Activism - Social aspects

Civil rights workers - Social aspects

Protest movements - Social aspects

Social change - Political aspects

Politics and culture - Social aspects

Minorities - Civil rights - Social aspects

Intimacy (Psychology) - Political aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from eBook information screen..

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 196-203) and index.

Sommario/riassunto

The Revolution Will Be Improvised: The Intimacy of Cultural Activism traces intimate encounters between activists and local people of the civil rights movement through an archive of Black and Brown avant-gardism. In the 1960s, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) activists engaged with people of color working in poor communities to experiment with creative approaches to liberation through theater, media, storytelling, and craftmaking. With a dearth of resources and an abundance of urgency, SNCC activists improvised new methods of engaging with communities that created possibilities for unexpected encounters through programs such as The Free Southern Theater, El Teatro Campesino, and the Poor People's Corporation. Reading the output of these programs, Elizabeth Rodriguez Fielder argues that intimacy-making became an extension of participatory



democracy. In doing so, Fielder supplants the success-failure binary for understanding social movements, focusing instead on how care work aligns with creative production. The Revolution Will Be Improvised returns to improvisation's roots in economic and social necessity and locates it as a core tenet of the aesthetics of obligation, where a commitment to others drives the production and result of creative work thus, this book puts forward a methodology to explore further the improvised, often ephemeral, works of art activism.