Arts of Resistance: Seeing and Shaping the Struggle

Ryan Griffis, Sarah Ross

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Abstract

Historic struggles for more equitable cities have always used visual and representational means alongside direct action and policy reform. Posters, buttons, pamphlets, and other printed ephemera are part of a visual culture produced by, for, and with urban social movements. Using everything from bold graphics to timelines and maps, artists create another language to articulate power and oppression as well as visions of resistance. As artist-archivists Dara Greenwald and Josh MacPhee (2010: 13) have written in their curatorial project Signs of Change: Social Movement Cultures 1960s to Now: “In order for groups of people to consciously change the world, part of their struggle must be envisioning and experimenting with what this new and changed world will look like.”
Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationCities and Inequalities in a Global and Neoliberal World
EditorsFaranak Miraftab, David Wilson, Ken Salo
PublisherRoutledge
Pages207-216
Number of pages10
ISBN (Electronic)9781315887593
ISBN (Print)9780415705981, 9780367599324
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 24 2015

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Social Sciences
  • General Earth and Planetary Sciences

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