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Introduction: The Aesthetics of Global Protest: Visual Culture and Communication

Introduction: The Aesthetics of Global Protest: Visual Culture and Communication
Introduction: The Aesthetics of Global Protest: Visual Culture and Communication
Protest movements are a key function of democracy. They represent an expression of ideas and principles to challenge dominant orthodoxies and have resulted in significant changes to policies and legislation as well as to attitudinal transformations in local, national and international contexts. Protest movements show no signs of abating in the twenty-first century as people challenge governments, regimes, economic structures, austerity, material inequalities as well as advocate for global issues such as food, water, energy, healthcare, and climate change. And in spite of critiques of identity politics and the mainstreaming of queer theory, identity continues to anchor political struggles around...
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Amsterdam University Press
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McGarry, Aidan, Erhart, Itir and Eslen-Ziya, Hande , et al. (2020) Introduction: The Aesthetics of Global Protest: Visual Culture and Communication. In, McGarry, Aidan, Erhart, Itir, Eslen-Ziya, Hande, Jenzen, Olu and Korkut, Umut (eds.) The Aesthetics of Global Protest: Visual Culture and Communication. Amsterdam University Press, pp. 15-36. (doi:10.2307/j.ctvswx8bm.6).

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Protest movements are a key function of democracy. They represent an expression of ideas and principles to challenge dominant orthodoxies and have resulted in significant changes to policies and legislation as well as to attitudinal transformations in local, national and international contexts. Protest movements show no signs of abating in the twenty-first century as people challenge governments, regimes, economic structures, austerity, material inequalities as well as advocate for global issues such as food, water, energy, healthcare, and climate change. And in spite of critiques of identity politics and the mainstreaming of queer theory, identity continues to anchor political struggles around...

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Author: Aidan McGarry
Author: Itir Erhart
Author: Hande Eslen-Ziya
Author: Olu Jenzen
Author: Umut Korkut
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