The Aesthetics of Rule and Resistance

Analyzing Political Street Art in Latin America

Lisa Bogerts (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

348 Seiten

2024
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-739-7 (ISBN)

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Effective visual communication has become an essential strategy for grassroots political activists, who use images to publicly express resistance and make their claims visible in the struggle for political power. However, this “aesthetics of resistance” is also employed by political and economic elites for their own purposes, making it increasingly difficult to distinguish from the “aesthetics of rule.” Through illuminating case studies of street art in Buenos Aires, Bogotá, Caracas, and Mexico City, The Aesthetics of Rule and Resistance explores the visual strategies of persuasion and meaning-making employed by both rulers and resisters to foster self-legitimization, identification, and mobilization.

Lisa Bogerts is a Berlin-based political scientist, researcher, and editor. Her work focuses on political conflict and protest, visual communication, artistic activism, and power relations.

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Political Power, Visual Communication, and Public Space

Chapter 1. From Conceptualizing to Analyzing Visual Power and Resistance

Chapter 2. Street Art: A Medium of Visual Political Communication

Chapter 3. Setting the Scene: Street Art in Latin American Urban Space

Chapter 4. Buenos Aires: “Latin America – Now or Never”

Chapter 5. Mexico City: “Another World is Possible” – Democracy, Freedom, Justice

Chapter 6. Caracas: “El Comandante” is Present

Chapter 7. Bogotá: “Exploitation Ruins Life”

Chapter 8. Across the Cities: Strategies of Visual Meaning-Making

Conclusions: “The Media Are Theirs, the Walls Are Ours”

References

Appendix A: Shooting Script for the Photo-Documentation

Appendix B: Image Descriptions and Image Sections/Composition from the Detailed Analyses

Appendix C: Code Frequencies

Erscheinungsdatum	05.11.2024
Reihe/Serie	Protest, Culture & Society
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
ISBN-10	1-80539-739-7 / 1805397397
ISBN-13	978-1-80539-739-7 / 9781805397397
Zustand	Neuware