Recent global events; including the lsquo;Arab Springrsquo; 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.
#2266518 in eBooks 2017-01-10 2017-01-10File Name: B01MSZKL1Z
Review
