The Aesthetics of Global Protest: Visual Culture and Communication

Aidan McGarry (Editor), Itir Erhart (Editor), Hande Eslen-Ziya (Editor), Olu Jenzen (Editor), Umut Korkut (Editor)

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    Abstract

    Protest movements are struggles to be seen and to be heard. In the last 60 years protest movements around the world have mobilized against injustices and inequalities to bring about substantial socio-cultural, political, and economic changes. Whilst familiar repertoires of action persist such as strikes, demonstrations, and occupations of public space, the landscape is very different from 60 years ago when the so-called ‘new social movements’ emerged. We need to take stock of the terrain of protest movements including dramatic developments in digital technologies and communication, the use of visual culture by protestors, the expression of democracy, as well as how and why resistance is enacted across material and digital spaces. This chapter introduces the volume and explains how aesthetics of protest are performative and communicative; constituting a movement through the performance of politics.
    Original languageEnglish
    PublisherAmsterdam University Press
    Number of pages300
    ISBN (Print)9789463724913
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 9 Dec 2019

    Bibliographical note

    Creative Commons License CC BY NC ND (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0)
    All authors / Amsterdam University Press B.V., Amsterdam 2020

    Keywords

    • Aesthetics
    • global protest

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