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Record Nr.

UNINA9910972741703321

Autore

Tucker Kenneth H

Titolo

Workers of the world, enjoy! : aesthetic politics from revolutionary syndicalism to the global justice movement / / Kenneth H. Tucker, Jr

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, Penn., : Temple University Press, 2010

ISBN

1-59213-766-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 p.)

Collana

Politics, history, and social change

Disciplina

306.4/709

Soggetti

Popular culture - History

Art - Political aspects - History

Social movements - History

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

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I - Theoretical Reflections; 1. Public Life, Aesthetics, and Social Theory; 2. Social Movements and Aesthetic Politics; 3. Identity, Knowledge, Solidarity, and Aesthetic Politics; Part II - History and Social Movements; 4. The World Is a Stage and Life Is a Carnival: The Rise of the Aesthetic Sphere and Popular Culture; 5. Labor and Aesthetic Politics: French Revolutionary Syndicalism, the IWW, and Fascism; 6. The Flowering of Aesthetic Politics: May 1968, the New Social Movements, and the Global Justice Movement; Conclusion; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The aesthetic politics of social movements turn public life into a public stage, where mutual displays of performance often trump rational debate, and urban streets become sites of festivals and carnival. In his penetrating new book, Workers of the World, Enjoy!, Kenneth Tucker provides a new model for understanding social change in our image-saturated and aesthetically charged world. As emotional and artistic images inform our perceptions and evaluation of politics, art and performance often provide new and creative ways of understanding self and society. Spanning