Political Street Art

Communication, culture and resistance in Latin America

Holly Eva Ryan (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

156 Seiten

2016
Routledge (Verlag)
9781138852884 (ISBN)

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Recent global events, including the ‘Arab Spring’ uprisings, Occupy movements and anti-austerity protests across Europe have renewed scholarly and public interest in collective action, protest strategies and activist subcultures. We know that social movements do not just contest and politicise culture, they create it too. However, scholars working within international politics and social movement studies have been relatively inattentive to the manifold political mediations of graffiti, muralism, street performance and other street art forms.

Against this backdrop, this book explores the evolving political role of street art in Latin America during the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. It examines the use, appropriation and reconfiguration of public spaces and political opportunities through street art forms, drawing on empirical work undertaken in Brazil, Bolivia and Argentina. Bringing together a range of insights from social movement studies, aesthetics and anthropology, the book highlights some of the difficulties in theorising and understanding the complex interplay between art and political practice. It seeks to explore 'what art can do' in protest, and in so doing, aims to provide a useful point of reference for students and scholars interested in political communication, culture and resistance.

It will be of interest to students and scholars working in politics, international relations, political and cultural geography, Latin American studies, art, sociology and anthropology.

Holly Eva Ryan is Lecturer in International Political Sociology at Queen Mary University of London, UK.

1 Introduction

2 From ‘excommunication’ to political expression: conceptualising political street art in Latin America

3 ‘Tupinaquim o Tupinãodá?’: rethinking street art in Brazil

4 Pintadas and performances: street art, identity and resistance in Bolivia

5 Argentine street art: expression, crisis and change

6 Conclusion

Erscheinungsdatum	25.05.2016
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Research in Place, Space and Politics
Zusatzinfo	1 Line drawings, black and white; 26 Halftones, black and white; 27 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	362 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-13	9781138852884 / 9781138852884
Zustand	Neuware