1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910971618403321

Titolo

Cultural activism : practices, dilemmas, and possibilities / / editors, Begüm Özden Firat, Aylin Kuryel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; New York, : Rodopi, c2011

ISBN

1-283-00925-0

9786613009258

90-420-2982-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (255 p.)

Collana

Thamyris/Intersecting: Place, Sex and Race, , 1879-5846 ; ; 21

Altri autori (Persone)

FiratBegüm Özden

KuryelAylin

Disciplina

303.48/4

Soggetti

Social change

Politics and culture

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary material / Editors Cultural Activism -- Introduction. Cultural Activism: Practices, Dilemmas, and Possibilities / Begüm Özden Fırat and Aylin Kuryel -- The Notion of Irony in Cultural Activism / Gavin Grindon -- The Resonance of Romanticism: Activist Art and the Bourgeois Horizon / A. K. Thompson -- Lots of Money Because I am Many: The Luther Blissett Project and the Multiple-Use Name Strategy / Marco Deseriis -- The Separation Wall in Palestine: Artists Love to Hate It / Ronen Eidelman -- Breaking Out of the Specialist “Ghetto”: Performative Encounters as Participatory Praxis in Radical Politics / Anja Kanngieser -- A Proposal for Grounded Cultural Activism: Communication Strategies, Adbusters and Social Change / Emrah Irzık -- Bakunin’s Poor Cousins: Engaging Art for Tactical Interventions / Christian Scholl -- Clowndestine Maneuvers: A Study of Clownfrontational Tactics / L. M. Bogad -- Play with Authority!: Radical Performance and Performative Irony / Michael Shane Boyle -- Appendix: Inventory of Practices / Editors Cultural Activism -- The Contributors / Editors Cultural Activism -- Index / Editors Cultural Activism.

Sommario/riassunto

This volume addresses contemporary activist practices that aim to



interrupt and reorient politics as well as culture. The specific tactics analyzed here are diverse, ranging from culture jamming, sousveillance, media hoaxing, adbusting, subvertising, street art, to hacktivism, billboard liberation, and urban guerilla, to name but a few. Though indebted to the artistic and political movements of the past, this form of activism brings a novel dimension to public protest with its insistence on humor, playfulness, and confusion. This book attempts to grasp both the old and new aspects of contemporary activist practices, as well as their common characteristics and internal varieties. It attempts to open up space for the acknowledgement of the ways in which contemporary capitalism affects all our lives, and for the reflection on possible modes of struggling with it. It focuses on the possibilities that different activist tactics enable, the ways in which those may be innovative or destructive, as well as on their complications and dilemmas. The encounter between the insights of political, social and critical theory on the one hand and activist visions and struggles on the other is urgent and appealing. The essays collected here all explore such a confrontational collaboration, testing its limits and productiveness, in theory as well as in practice. In a mutually beneficial relationship, theoretical concepts are rethought through activist practices, while those activist practices are developed with the help of the insights of critical theory. This volume brings scholars and activists together in the hope of establishing a productive dialogue between the theorizations of the intricacies of our times and the subversive practices that deal with them.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910894616203321

Titolo

Eureka : revista científica de psicología

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Asuncíon, : Centro de Documentacíon, Investigacíon y Difusión de la Carrera de Psicologia, Univ. Católica de Asunción, 2004-

ISSN

2220-9026

Descrizione fisica

Online-Ressource

Disciplina

150

Soggetti

Zeitschrift

Lingua di pubblicazione

Spagnolo

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Note generali

Gesehen am 04.06.14

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910970060003321

Autore

Richards Patricia <1971->

Titolo

Pobladoras, indigenas, and the state : conflicts over women's rights in Chile / / Patricia Richards

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Brunswick, N.J., : Rutgers University Press, c2004

ISBN

0-8135-5793-3

0-8135-3640-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (267 p.)

Disciplina

305.42/0983

Soggetti

Women's rights - Chile

Poor women - Chile - Social conditions

Working class women - Chile - Social conditions

Mapuche women - Chile - Social conditions

Poor women - Chile - Political activity

Working class women - Chile - Political activity

Mapuche women - Chile - Political activity

Mapuche women - Chile - Government relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa



Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-239) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Women's rights and representing difference -- Women's activism and the Chilean state -- National development, social policy, and the poor -- Participation and the representation of pobladoras in the state -- State goals, national identity, and the Mapuche -- Vision de pueblo and the representation of Mapuche women in the state -- Why difference matters.

Sommario/riassunto

This critical analysis of the role of the state, diversity of women's movements and the social and political position of indigenous peoples of Latin America provides an illuminating discussion of the ways in which the state defines women's interest, and constructs women's citizenship.