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This thesis explores a pedagogical enquiry that has transformed the way I think and the way I teach. I used a variety of critical and theatre theories to frame my enquiry and for four years consecutively, visited a non-government... more
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      Critical TheoryReflective PracticeSocial JusticeEducational Equity and Justice
This article explores the meaning of “resistance” and suggests a new path for “resistance studies,” which is an emerging and interdisciplinary field of the social sciences that is still relatively fragmented and heterogeneous. Resistance... more
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      Cultural StudiesSocial MovementsCultural SociologySocial Networks
This paper applied an ecocritical perspective on street art to expand on the notion that street art can have an impact on how we relate to urban public space. In doing so, it argued that street art is particularly well positioned to... more
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      Critical TheoryHistorySociologyCultural Studies
This is an introductory chapter that explains the overall aims, assumptions, and premises of the entire volume. It discusses the proposition that the arts can and should be “put to work” toward the positive transformation of people’s... more
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      Arts EducationSociology of ArtsPhilosophy of Music EducationArts and Activism
TEN: Territory, Encounter & Negotiation (2014) is a self-published critical memoir, produced as a learning tool for the sectors of collaborative arts, education and youth/community work. The publication explores a decade of collaborative... more
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      Youth StudiesParticipatory Action ResearchEquality StudiesCritical Pedagogy
This thesis is a historical and intersectional investigation of the contemporary use of queer poetry as a grassroots activist tool in South Africa. The research in this thesis includes an analysis of in-depth qualitative interviews and... more
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      PoetryFeminist activismTransnational FeminismLGBTq Activisms
Ante la siempre actual y urgente necesidad de otorgar visibilidad a las mujeres creadoras, este libro busca conceder un espacio para el análisis de la obra de mujeres artistas, escritoras, divulgadoras y transformadoras sociales en el... more
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      CreativityGenre studiesPerformance StudiesContemporary Art
ArtLeaks Gazette #5: “Patriarchy Over & Out. Discourse Made Manifest” brings together contributions that analyze concrete practices and campaigns, and which engage theoretically and intersectionally with relevant issues related to queer,... more
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      Gender StudiesQueer StudiesArt HistoryPerformance Studies
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      Social MovementsPolitical ArtActivist ArtActivism
With Paul Routledge and Alex Sutherland This Arts Activism Toolkit can be used to stimulate thinking, reframe dominant stories and issues, understand the places in which you live and work and build creative relationships and practices... more
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      Social MovementsArts EducationActivismNew social movements
国連人権理事会(UNHRC)は、国際的な人権擁護のための措置として設置しているThematic Special... more
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      Performing ArtsCensorshipCultural PolicyCultural Heritage
This thesis explores a pedagogical enquiry that has transformed the way I think and the way I teach. I used a variety of critical and theatre theories to frame my enquiry and for four years consecutively, visited a non-government... more
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      Critical TheoryReflective PracticeSocial JusticeEducational Equity and Justice
During his stay in Athens at Kappatos Athens Art Residency, Santiago Sierra conceived of a new piece entitled “Athens Stray Dogs Project” that takes place in the public sphere of the center of Athens. The work is dedicated to the stray... more
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      Social ActivismPublic SpaceArt and PoliticsArt in public space
In the fall of 2019, the University of Delaware Library, Museums and Press will present an exhibition of work by the African American artist Elizabeth Catlett (1915 – 2012). Drawn primarily from the collection of artist, scholar, and... more
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      Black Studies Or African American StudiesTransnationalismPrintmakingAfrican American Art
Hong Kong’s story is difficult to tell, commented Leung Ping-kwan (1949–2013) in consideration of the city’s complicated historical configuration as well as the aesthetic reflection on the same by the writers and artists that have come to... more
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      Transmedial StorytellingHong Kong studiesArts and Activism
The text was published alongside the exhibition Fawaran - (Unrest) - Housing, Language, History - A New Generation in Jewish-Arab Cities (Gutman Museum of Art, 2013: http://www.ronasela.com/en/details.asp?listid=63) Palestinian voice of... more
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      Art, Culture and Social ChangeArt and ActivismPalestinian StudiesContemporary Art and Social Transformation
In this essay, Cheryl J. Fish argues that film and photographs by Sami artists Liselotte Wajstedt and Marjar Helander are part of an activist/artist response to extractive industry practices in Sápmi that challenge cultural perceptions of... more
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      Indigenous StudiesNordic StudiesEnvironmental HumanitiesPhotography (Visual Studies)
In dit artikel worden de verschillende literatuurpolitieke visies tijdens het Tweede Schrijversprotest (Nederland, 1970) geanalyseerd. Dit protest, bedoeld om de financiële en artistieke positie van literaire auteurs te verbeteren, zette... more
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      LiteratureDutch LiteratureCountercultureModern Dutch Literature
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      Walking (Art)ClownSocial EngagementArts and Activism
Composed as an extension of the conversations that took place during the 2015 Journee sans culture, To Spoil the Party, to Set Our Joy Ablaze gathers contributions from those who moderated the discussions of the day as well as those who... more
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      Artistic ResearchArtists' WritingsArt and ActivismCanadian cultural policy
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      New MediaDigital MediaContemporary ArtSocial Media
In this document we describe our experience relocating precarity and resiliency by way of arts activism, to denounce andmake visible social injustices experienced by im/migrant communities in Montreal. Under the umbrella of the Immigrant... more
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      Migrant JusticeArts and Activism
Women Exposed is an annual art exhibit by women, for women. Its mission is two-fold: to create an opportunity for women artists, and to empower victims of domestic violence through education and financial donations. The money raised by... more
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      Women's StudiesDomestic ViolenceWomen's RightsWomen
El arte activista no sólo aparece acompañando las luchas urbanas actuales, sino que en buena medida las impregna de sus postulados teóricos y estéticos, sobre todo en lo que hace a su voluntad de resignificar el espacio público. Ese... more
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      AnthropologyContemporary ArtAnthropology Of ArtArt and Activism
A mediados de 2020, Jesús Antuña, Verónica Giordano y Eduardo Molinari organizaron el ciclo Comunidad, Territorio, Futuro. Este libro compila buena parte de las intervenciones que tuvieron lugar en ese marco. A partir de unos encuentros... more
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      SociologyLatin American StudiesSocial SciencesVisual Arts
In 2010, pouf ! art + architecture (Cynthia Hammond and Thomas Strickland) began a site-specific project under the rubric of Urban Occupations Urbaines (UOU). UOU was a year-long, neighbourhood-based curatorial platform located in the... more
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      PhotographyCommunity-based art, performance and dialogueMontréalUrban Development
In 2007, the goal of the public prosecutor was to bring me to trial. What I brought to trial was a representation of politics as such; a truth in the form of a living martyr yet un-coded within the law of the state. The evidence of this... more
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      ArtArt TheoryPerformance StudiesInternational Law
The pandemic showed that theatres will be adapting, re-positioning and re-focusing their work through digital means and by using diverse social media tools, in order to stay present and active during the period which will be limiting... more
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      Cultural PolicyCultural managementArts and Activism
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      Contemporary ArtCritical Race TheoryPerformanceVisual Arts
Ante la siempre actual y urgente necesidad de otorgar visibilidad a las mujeres creadoras, este libro busca conceder un espacio para el análisis de la obra de mujeres artistas, escritoras, divulgadoras y transformadoras sociales en el... more
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      CreativityGenre studiesPerformance StudiesContemporary Art
Shimshon Obadia is an Interdisciplinary Eco Artist leading the Daylighting the Classroom, a project in partnership with The University of British Columbia's SSHRC funded Eco Art Incubator research initiative and École K.L.O. Middle School... more
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      EducationTeacher EducationCommunity DevelopmentEcological Art
Paulauskas, Donatas. 2015. “Inverting Monstrosity: ACT UP’s Fight Against Scientific-Popular Discourses of AIDS.” Pulse: A Graduate Journal of History, Sociology & Philosophy of Science 3: 125-144. ISSN: 2416-111X.
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      Social MovementsQueer StudiesVisual StudiesHistory of Medicine
ABSTRACT In this document we describe our experience relocating precarity and resiliency by way of arts activism, to denounce and make visible social injustices experienced by im/migrant communities in Montreal. Under the umbrella of the... more
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      MarketingDrama EducationMigrant JusticeArts and Activism
https://www.latinamericanmigrations.com/ Socioecologies & Economies of Migration is a collective of Latin American-born Canadian researchers, artists, and activists working together to examine Latin American migration to Canada. We... more
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      FinancializationLatin American MigrationDisplacementArts and Activism
Engaged musicking creates enjoyable, meaningful aesthetic experiences and strengthens citizen engagement in public policy. This case study of March 2015 Converging Paths concert in Toronto, organized by the Israeli-Iranian Musical... more
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      Iranian StudiesIsrael/PalestineCivic EngagementActivism
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      Immigration StudiesKnowledge CommunitiesArts and ActivismKnowledge Production and Popular Education in Social Movements
Public monuments function as cultural agents, reifying dominant public narratives or fostering change. Either way, their representation of people and events intervene in public discourse and contribute to cultural, economic, political,... more
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      HistorySociologyPsychologyCultural Heritage
Ante la siempre actual y urgente necesidad de otorgar visibilidad a las mujeres creadoras, este libro busca conceder un espacio para el análisis de la obra de mujeres artistas, escritoras, divulgadoras y transformadoras sociales en el... more
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      CreativityGenre studiesPerformance StudiesContemporary Art
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      Social ActivismEnvironmental PoliticsProtest MovementsArts and Activism
En este trabajo analizaremos algunas de las producciones más destacadas de dos de los colectivos de activismo artístico (Longoni, Pérez Rocca, Lidia, Di Filippo, 2017) que inciden en el espacio público real y virtual en la Argentina de... more
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      Artistic ResearchArt and ActivismArtivismActivismo
This paper theorises the speculative process of how an arts-based online youth activist resource, AGENDA (www.agendaonline.co.uk) is becoming eventful and re-mattering youth voice on gender and sexual violence. Utilising the concept of... more
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      SexualityGenderNew MaterialismArts and Activism
In the following, I want to discuss some of the psychosocial implications of COVID-19 on artists’ individual and collectivized practices of self-organized work and self-employment (even though there are certainly artists who are employed... more
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      Cultural PolicyMuseum StudiesCultural ActivismSelf-Organized Artistic Spaces
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      Critical TheoryInstitutional CritiqueClimate JusticeIndigenous Justice
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      MigrationCritical ArtMigration StudiesPolitical Art