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The Art of Global Power : Artwork and Popular Cultures as World-Making Practices, PDF eBook

The Art of Global Power : Artwork and Popular Cultures as World-Making Practices PDF

Edited by Emily Merson

Part of the Popular Culture and World Politics series

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Artwork and popular cultures are crucial sites of contesting and transforming power relationships in world politics.

The contributors to this edited collection draw on their experiences across arts, activist, and academic communities to analyze how the global politics of colonialism, capitalism, and patriarchy are expressed and may be transformed through popular cultures and artistic labour. Through their methodological treatment of artwork and popular cultures as material sites of generating aesthetic knowledge and embodying global power, the authors foreground an analysis of global hierarchies and transformative empowerment through critically engaged political imagination and cultural projects.

By centralizing an intersectional analysis of the racialized, gendered, economic dimensions of the praxis of culture, The Art of Global Power demonstrates how artwork and popular culture projects, events, and institutions are vital sites of transgressing the material conditions that produce and sustain unjust global power hierarchies. This book intervenes in the international relations popular culture literature by problematizing the idea of a single homogenizing global popular culture and engaging with multiple popular cultures articulated from diverse global locations and worldviews.

To the international relations aesthetics literature this book contributes an intersectional analysis of aesthetics as an embodied process of knowledge production and action that takes place within global conditions of colonialism, capitalism, and patriarchy.

This book will be of interest to students, researchers and practitioners of international relations, and gender, cultural and media studies.

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