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Political Aesthetics of Power and Protest
Participants in the GCRP funded Political Aesthetics of Power and Protest workshop at the University of Warwick and others alert to the importance of aesthetics in politics examine the place of emotion in politics and how it is so effectively harnessed for political purposes through art. We are collaborating with openDemocracy in an editorial partnership to publish these papers; see openDemocracy - Political Aesthetics of Power and Protest.
If you would like to contribute a piece to this series please contact Shirin Rai on shirin.rai@warwick.ac.uk
Articles
Power, politics and public monuments in Nairobi, Kenya
Laragh Larsen
Beyond the Politics of Representation: The Political Economy of Indigenous Art in PostColonial India
Rashmi Varma
Imagining Pasts and Futures: The Indian Parliament Murals and South Africa’s Keiskamma Tapestry
Rachel Johnson & Shirin M. Rai
Pedestrian Crossings: Contemporary Judicial Spectacle
Leslie J. Morgan
The Politics of Aesthetics: Mussolini and Fascist Italy
Simonetta Falasca-Zamponi
The Aesthetic Politics of Two Decades of Techno-Movement in France
Jean-Christophe Sevin
The Political Aesthetics of Power and Protest Workshop
Welcome |
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| Shirin Rai (Warwick) - Welcome | Download |
Panel 1 - The Power of Aesthetics |
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| Partha Mitter (Sussex/Oxford) 'Power and Authority in Cultural Exchanges: A Revisionist Approach' | Download |
| Louise Amoore (Durham) 'Digital Aesthetics: Security's Objects and the Form of Politics' | Download |
| Les Moran (Birkbeck) 'Pedestrian Crossings; Some Reflections on the Occasion of a Contemporary Justicial Spectacle' | Download |
| Claire Blencowe (Warwick) - Discussant | Download |
Panel 2 - Mapping Power Aesthetics |
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| Jean Christophe Sevin (Centre Norbert Elias, Marseille) 'The Aesthetic Politics of the Techno-Movement in France 1990-2010' | Download |
| Manuela Ciotti (Edinburgh) 'The Nation's Aesthetic Production: India's Politics of Presence Through Contemporary Art' | Download |
| Laragh Larsen (Trinity College, Dublin) 'Power, Politics and Public Monuments in Nairobi' |
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| Nicola Pratt (Warwick) - Discussant |
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Panel 3 - Mapping Power Aesthetics II |
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| Simonetta Falasca Zamponi (California Santa Barbara) 'The Politics of Aesthetics: Mussolini and Fascist Italy' | Download |
| Rebecca Brown (John Hopkins) 'Perfecting Political Performance: Spinning, Ghandhi and Virtuosity' | Download |
| Tim White (Warwick) - Discussant | Download |
Panel 4 - Aesthetics and Forms of Protest |
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| Rashmi Varma (Warwick) 'Beyond the Politics of Representation: Tribal Art in Postcolonial India' | Download |
| Maria Tamboukou (University of East London) 'Ordinary/Extraordinary: Art, Politics, History' | Download |
| Alice Mah (Warwick) 'Alternative Forms of Resistance: Working-Class Cultural Production in Liverpool' | Download |
| Yvette Hutchinson (Warwick) - Discussant | Download |
Panel 5 - Aesthetics as Method: Roundtable |
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| Christine Battersby (Warwick) | Download |
| Oliver Davies (Warwick) | Download |
| L.H.M. Ling (The New School, New York) | Download |
| Nirmal Puwar (Goldsmiths) | Download |