Artists, Cosmopolitanism, and the Civic Imagination

Artists as Political Agents

Maria Rovisco (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

162 Seiten

2025
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-09098-9 (ISBN)

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Artists, Cosmopolitanism, and the Civic Imagination unpacks the political agency of artists by looking at artists as moral, reflexive, and political agents. Do artists play a role in civil society? Can artists “make a difference” in the world? In what ways do artists act politically? To address these questions, this book moves away from a focus on social organisation and the production of art, to ask how artists attach meaning to their interventions in social and political conditions.

Maria Rovisco draws from in-depth interviews with UK-based visual artists and theatre practitioners with a migrant background, and semiotic analysis of a theatre play, visual artworks, and film texts, to argue that artists are quintessential cosmopolitans who care deeply about changing society for the better. By explaining how artists get involved in cross-cultural encounters, this book reveals the processes of listening, reflection, imagination, social learning, and moral intentionality through which artists imagine and realise their visions of a better world. In so doing, it offers a new direction in thinking about the intersection of art and politics, by showing how artists play a crucial role in building a civic culture outside traditional sites of political participation.

This book will be essential reading for students and scholars across the social sciences and the humanities with interests in migration, citizenship and the public sphere, cultural sociology, media and culture, cosmopolitanism, and art.

Maria Rovisco is Associate Professor in Sociology at the University of Leeds, UK. She is a cultural sociologist with interests in civil society, public sphere, visual culture, cosmopolitanism, and art. She is the co-editor of Visual Politics in the Global South (2023).

1. Introduction: Artists, Politics, and Agency

2. Cultural Encounters, Artistic Production, and Social Transformation

3. The Expressive Public Sphere – Artists and the Civic Imagination

4. Acting Politically – The Art of Provocation

5. The Politics of Performative Listening

6. Cosmopolitan Cinema as Ethico-Political Practice - Borders, Mobility, and Cosmopolitan Dialogue

Afterword - Performing Citizenship

Erscheinungsdatum	30.01.2025
Reihe/Serie	Global Connections
Zusatzinfo	1 Halftones, black and white; 1 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	380 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-138-09098-0 / 1138090980
ISBN-13	978-1-138-09098-9 / 9781138090989
Zustand	Neuware