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""Looking at the complex interaction of aesthetics and politics, this volume investigates the emancipatory power of radical art. With a focus on the two waves of uprisings in the Swana region in the years 2010s, the authors show how artistic performances of different types and following genres are developed and spread in the streets, on the walls or in the internet, catalyzing resistance to authoritarianism, but also to neoliberal capitalism, militarism and colonialism. An important book to read for social movement scholars."" --Donatella della Porta, Professor, Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy

Looking at the complex interaction of aesthetics and politics, this volume investigates the emancipatory power of radical art. With a focus on the two waves of uprisings in the Swana region in the years 2010s, the authors show how artistic performances of different types and following genres are developed and spread in the streets, on the walls or in the internet, catalyzing resistance to authoritarianism, but also to neoliberal capitalism, militarism and colonialism. An important book to read for social movement scholars. * Donatella della Porta, Professor , Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy *

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Tijen Tunali is an Andrew Mellon Fellow at the Columbia University Global Centers | Amman. 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).

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