Doing Politics with Citizen Art

This book distinguishes 'citizen art' from within the field of social and activist art practices and examines how it performs new modes of citizenship.

List of contents

Introduction
1 What Is Citizen Art? Its Meaning and Challenges
2 The Problem of Status and Cosmopolitan Citizenship and the Value of "Acts of Citizenship" for Understanding Citizen Art
3 Art Interventions as Tools for Doing Politics and Shaping New Terrain
4 Enacting New Modes of Citizenship: Solidarities, Assemblies, and Public Thought Experiments
5 Altering the Facts on the Ground: Citizen Artist News: Clouded Title
6 Expanding Membership: Citizen Artist News: Kinship
Conclusion

About the author

Fawn Daphne Plessner is associate professor at Emily Carr University of Art & Design in Vancouver.

Product details

• Authors: Fawn Daphne Plessner
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.06.2024
• EAN: 9781538151495
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-5149-5
• Dimensions: 151 mm x 228 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 395 g
• Illustrations: 12 BW Illustrations
• Series: Frontiers of the Political: Doing International Politics
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; The arts: general issues, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, ART / General, International Relations, Political structures: democracy, Civil rights & citizenship, Civics and citizenship, The arts: general topics, Political structures / systems: democracy