The aesthetics of rule and resistance: analyzing political street art in Latin America

Effective visual communication has become an essential strategy for grassroots political activists, who use images to publicly express resistance and make their claims visible in the struggle for political power. However, this "aesthetics of resistance" is also employed by political and ec...

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Beteilige Person: Bogerts, Lisa 1986- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: New York ; Oxford berghahn 2022
Schriftenreihe:Protest, Culture & Society 29
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Links:http://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781800731509
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781800731509
Zusammenfassung:Effective visual communication has become an essential strategy for grassroots political activists, who use images to publicly express resistance and make their claims visible in the struggle for political power. However, this "aesthetics of resistance" is also employed by political and economic elites for their own purposes, making it increasingly difficult to distinguish from the "aesthetics of rule." Through illuminating case studies of street art in Buenos Aires, Bogotá, Caracas, and Mexico City, The Aesthetics of Rule and Resistance explores the visual strategies of persuasion and meaning-making employed by both rulers and resisters to foster self-legitimization, identification, and mobilization
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Umfang:1 Online-Ressource (348 Seiten)
ISBN:9781800731509
DOI:10.1515/9781800731509