Art Against Authoritarianism in Southwest Asia and North Africa

Tijen Tunali, Josepha Ivanka Wessels (Herausgeber)

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208 Seiten

2025
I.B. Tauris (Verlag)
978-0-7556-5065-1 (ISBN)

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Over the past decade, there has been a burgeoning interest in the realm of art activism within the Southwest Asia and North Africa region, shedding light on the political implications of aesthetic representation. Nevertheless, a critical inquiry into how political aesthetics can formulate both discernible and imperceptible resistance strategies in response to resurging authoritarianism and counter-revolution after the 2011 uprisings in the region remains conspicuously absent.

This book delves into a comprehensive examination of diverse art forms, ranging from street art and cinema to performance art, as well as music and theatre, scrutinizing the manifestations of aesthetic resilience at the epicentre of the political resistance against oppression and authoritarianism in Sudan, Iran, Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Lebanon, Yemen and Syria. The editors employ a multifaceted approach to investigate artistic activism, encompassing analysis of visibility, ephemerality, and speech within the public sphere, the establishment and perpetuation of collective transnational solidarities, the portrayal of suppressed identities and narratives, and the innovation of alternative mechanisms for producing and disseminating art.

Tijen Tunali is a Marie Sklodowska Curie Cofund Fellow at the University of Rennes 2, France. She is the editor of Art and Gentrification in the Changing Neoliberal Landscape (2021) and co-editor of Contemporary Art Across Political Divides: Difficult Conversations (2023). Josepha Wessels is an associate professor in Media and Communication Studies at the School of Arts and Communication at Malmö University, Sweden. She is the author of Documenting Syria: Film-making, Video Activism and Revolution (2019, I.B.Tauris).

List of Figures
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Note on Transliteration

Introduction
Chapter1:AL SAR’A ALNA?
Chapter2:REMAPPINGPOLITICALMUSICIN MOROCCO
Chapter3:CREATIVESPACEANDUPRISINGINALGERIA
Chapter4:MONUMENTALRE-BOURGUIBIZATION
Chapter5:AFTERIMAGESOFTHE2011EGYPTIANUPRISINGS
Chapter6:WALLSANDREVOLUTIONINSUDAN
Chapter7:REVOLUTIONARYWOMENINIRAN
Chapter8:WARON WALLS
Chapter9:LITERARYWRITINGINSYRIA

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Erscheint lt. Verlag	23.1.2025
Reihe/Serie	Political Communication and Media Practices in the Middle East and North Africa
Zusatzinfo	18 bw illus
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Allgemeines / Lexika
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	0-7556-5065-4 / 0755650654
ISBN-13	978-0-7556-5065-1 / 9780755650651
Zustand	Neuware