Assuming Boycott - Resistance, Agency and Cultural Production

The power of refusing to participate has never been on people's minds as much as it is today. Non-violent and supremely effective, cultural boycotts are in place around the world and gaining in popularity. The essential anthology on a topic that's constantly in the news.

List of contents

Introduction by Kareem Estefan

I. The Cultural Boycott of Apartheid South Africa

Sean Jacobs, The Legacy of the Cultural Boycott Against South Africa

John Peffer, Art, Resistance, and Community in 1980s South Africa

Hlonipha Mokoena, Kwaito: The Revolution Was Not Televised; It Announced Itself in Song

Frank B. Wilderson III, Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid (excerpt)

II. BDS and the Cultural Boycott of Israel

Ariella Azoulay, ¿We,¿ Palestinians and Jewish Israelis: The Right Not to Be a Perpetrator

Noura Erakat, The Case for BDS and the Path to Co-Resistance

Eyal Weizman and Kareem Estefan, Extending Co-Resistance

Nasser Abourahme, Boycott, Decolonization, Return: BDS and the Limits of Political Solidarity

Joshua Simon, Neoliberal Politics, Protective Edge, and BDS

Yazan Khalili, The Utopian Conflict

III. Who Speaks? Who Is Silenced?

Tania Bruguera, The Shifting Grounds of Censorship and Freedom of Expression, from Cuba to Israel

Naeem Mohaiemen, The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Campaign

Svetlana Mintcheva, Structures of Power and the Ethical Limits of Speech

Ann Laura Stoler, By Colonial Design: Or, Why We Say We Don¿t Know Enough

IV. Dis/engagement From Afar

Chelsea Haines, The Distant Image

Mariam Ghani with Haig Aivazian, 52 Weeks, and Engaging by Disengaging

Nathan Gray and Ahmet Ö¿üt, Not Walking Away: Participation and Withdrawal in the 2014 Sydney Biennial

Radhika Subramaniam, Loose Connection

About the author

Carin Kuoni is a curator and editor whose work examines how contemporary artistic practices reflect and inform social, political and cultural conditions. She is Director/Curator of the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School and teaches there. A founding member of the artists¿ collective REPOhistory, Kuoni has curated and co-curated numerous transdisciplinary exhibitions, and edited and co-edited several books, among them Energy Plan for the Western Man: Joseph Beuys in America; Words of Wisdom: A Curator¿s Vademecum; Speculation, Now; and Entry Points: The Vera List Center Field Guide on Art and Social Justice. She is the recipient of a 2014 Andy Warhol Foundation Curatorial Fellowship, directed ¿SITAC XII: Arte, justamente¿ in Mexico City in 2015, and is a Travel Companion for the 57th Carnegie International in 2018.

Product details

• Assisted by: Kareem Estefan (Editor), Carin Kuoni (Editor), Kuoni Carin (Editor), Laura Raicovich (Editor), Raicovich Laura (Editor)
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.10.2017
• EAN: 9781944869434
• ISBN: 978-1-944869-43-4
• No. of pages: 272
• Illustrations: Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Cultural Studies, Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, Political activism, Civil rights & citizenship, Human rights, civil rights, Civics and citizenship, Political activism / Political engagement