Pub Date : 2023-04-26DOI: 10.1177/09213740231171523
Leire Vergara
This article explores the dispersed geography of the so-called plazas of sovereignty, the Spanish strongholds formed by a group of rocks, islets and archipelagos, that stretch along the northern coast of Morocco, from a curatorial perspective. These territories, which have been occupied by Spain since the end of Middle Age, are today inaccessible to documented or undocumented citizens. My curatorial research Dispositifs of Touching has created a space for studying the enclaves through the activation of a methodology that has helped to approach and generate knowledge around their forbidden status. Their lack of accessibility has encouraged the development of a curatorial production that included site-visits, reading groups, public platforms for debate, documentary materials, artistic productions and installations. Beyond this, the study of the strongholds facilitates the configuration of a criticality (Rogoff, 2003) on terms that are fundamental for curatorial research and practice as much as for contemporary urgencies related to the contemporary migratory crisis between Africa and Europe.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-18DOI: 10.1177/09213740231171527
Abdiel Segarra
This is an introduction to a selection of portraits that are part of a personal archive of photographs collected over the last 6 years. The portraits are of artists, cultural agents, activists and people who, like me, have settled in the diaspora and who, despite the nuances of each experience, share the journey as a common element that allows us to learn from each other. The intention of the essay is to pay tribute to these people as a gesture of gratitude for their guidance and solidarity in the distance. At the same time, the exercise is a bet on the construction of an imaginary of our own about migration and a strategy to combat invisibility and silence through the recognition of the identities that emerge as a result of these processes.
{"title":"We are here: An archive of portraits to look at myself","authors":"Abdiel Segarra","doi":"10.1177/09213740231171527","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09213740231171527","url":null,"abstract":"This is an introduction to a selection of portraits that are part of a personal archive of photographs collected over the last 6 years. The portraits are of artists, cultural agents, activists and people who, like me, have settled in the diaspora and who, despite the nuances of each experience, share the journey as a common element that allows us to learn from each other. The intention of the essay is to pay tribute to these people as a gesture of gratitude for their guidance and solidarity in the distance. At the same time, the exercise is a bet on the construction of an imaginary of our own about migration and a strategy to combat invisibility and silence through the recognition of the identities that emerge as a result of these processes.","PeriodicalId":43944,"journal":{"name":"CULTURAL DYNAMICS","volume":"35 1","pages":"120 - 132"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46117607","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-04-14DOI: 10.1177/09213740231171526
P. Lugo
This article will analyse the relations between anarchism and artistic practices. The relationship between anarchy and art has been well documented ever since political anarchism was first defined and includes Gustave Courbet’s painting Proudhon and his daughters from 1865, Victor Hugo’s letters about demolishing La Bastille, the Second Spanish Republic, and the Mexican Revolutionary Anarchist press and engraving workshops. All these paths and possibilities, including a belligerent use of art and the social permissiveness intrinsic to it, are used by many artists to highlight political or social issues from an anarchist perspective. The actions of anarchist artists have gone beyond the production of pieces of art: plastic mechanisms of disobedience provide alternatives by which to improve life. The limit between artistic fiction and everyday life has been deleted by creative and radical works which transgress legal norms and generate disobedient practices which offer clandestine citizenships as an alternative. This is the spirit of anarchist art.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-13DOI: 10.1177/09213740231171260
Anastasia Christou
While the shackles of austerity continue to shatter the remnants of once dignified, and now, mostly dehumanising lives, for most Greeks who have suffered decades long of economic and social crises, the rapid rise of the far right and its incipient racist and xenophobic discourse has had a profound impact on the country. This paper attempts a twofold objective: on the one hand to contribute to the global feminist dialogue by making visible and vocal the case of Greece, and, on the other to advance a plea for a current consciousness raising era in Greece as regards particularly contemporary youth who can transform instances of despair into action and social change by adopting feminist principles in their everyday lives. I draw on the representational politics of far-right fascist discourse and individual behaviour articulated and depicted in contemporary Greek films, and its gendered and xenophobic normalisers, to contextualise an interdisciplinary feminist analysis of such phenomena in contemporary Greece.
{"title":"Divergent democracy: Notes on a mediatised affective activism renewal of feminist and anti-fascist struggle in contemporary Greece","authors":"Anastasia Christou","doi":"10.1177/09213740231171260","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09213740231171260","url":null,"abstract":"While the shackles of austerity continue to shatter the remnants of once dignified, and now, mostly dehumanising lives, for most Greeks who have suffered decades long of economic and social crises, the rapid rise of the far right and its incipient racist and xenophobic discourse has had a profound impact on the country. This paper attempts a twofold objective: on the one hand to contribute to the global feminist dialogue by making visible and vocal the case of Greece, and, on the other to advance a plea for a current consciousness raising era in Greece as regards particularly contemporary youth who can transform instances of despair into action and social change by adopting feminist principles in their everyday lives. I draw on the representational politics of far-right fascist discourse and individual behaviour articulated and depicted in contemporary Greek films, and its gendered and xenophobic normalisers, to contextualise an interdisciplinary feminist analysis of such phenomena in contemporary Greece.","PeriodicalId":43944,"journal":{"name":"CULTURAL DYNAMICS","volume":"35 1","pages":"47 - 59"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44307769","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-04-13DOI: 10.1177/09213740231171522
M. Smolińska
This text is an analysis of a series of pinhole photographs, by Anne Peschken and Marek Pisarsky (Urban Art), entitled East Side Story I (Myślibórz). Photo research on migration and arrival stories, 2019 on-going. The main thesis is that these photographs are a model example of images which, while addressing the theme of migration in the representational layer, also activate the processual and migratory nature of visual forms themselves. In order to substantiate this thesis, the East Side Story project is examined in the following contexts: critical border (art) studies; H. Belting’s anthropology of the image; memory studies; re-enactment; the blurriness of images made with a pinhole camera; A. Berleant’s re-thinking aesthetics and the notion of aesthetic embodiment. Reflecting on the tension between history, memory, identity and politics and activating the critical potential of borderscaping, Peschken and Pisarsky transform the landscape of the Polish-German borderland into an anachronistic narrative agent. The photographs from the East Side Story series are thus transgenerational corpographies of memory, showing that migration is a key and inalienable element of Polish history.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-13DOI: 10.1177/09213740231171225
I. Camps, O. F. López
This special issue “Against Citizenship: Visual belongings and transnational affects” gathers contributions that address the affective and transnational networks that position themselves against or confront the “fantasy” of an egalitarian citizenship, understanding that this notion is not only intrinsically segregating, but aleatory and artificial, in the same way that the creation and existence of states are. The framework of the issue is the possibility given by cultural practices to articulate and perform post-national, denationalized or transnational forms of citizenship in a world characterized by globalization, post-colonial societies and migratory movements. Through these cultural practices a variety of political communities try to solve the restrictions that the State imposes to differentiated types of citizenship or even to cross its limits, be them geographical or juridical, and a create a different sense of belonging and recognition. The struggles for the rights around intersections, such as race, gender or disability, that are fundamental to the internal exclusion of the “citizens” of a state, are key in questioning the political debt that citizenship has with its supposed cultural homogeneity, as post-colonial countries have experienced in the last years. In this sense, notions such as identity, belonging and affect motivate the needs and roadmaps of communities excluded from citizenship, but seeking precisely to provide radically opposite definitions and possibilities which guarantee the attenuation of vulnerability and, above all, the right to be, live and exist.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-13DOI: 10.1177/09213740231171258
Leticia Sabsay
As conservative and neo-authoritarian tendencies in Europe move across political and geo-cultural borders, we bear witness to a renewed attack on gender and sexual rights. This is a challenge to democratic citizenship that demands that we think anew the pervasive and multifaceted violence that structures the social organisation of gendered and sexual lives. How to think about the relationship between the hindering of sexual citizenship and current debates about sexual and gender-based violence in a historical present marked by a growing and revived conservative reaction? How to re-articulate a critical analysis of gender and sexual based violence that also accounts for the violence of gender? How to orient the condemnation of gender and sexual based violence towards a deepening of democracy? Taking Spain as a point of departure, this article examines recent legislative developments and argues for an expansive, albeit differentiated, approach to gender-based violence, in line with citizenship rights. Articulated in intersectional terms, this approach, it is contended, should challenge the intensification of racism and other exclusionary discourses that are gaining traction in Europe, and recognise that violence against those who experience gender and sexuality beyond normative heterosexuality also amounts to gendered forms of violence. It is along these lines that it would be possible to think of a feminist critique of violence in pursuit of a more democratic and just society.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-11DOI: 10.1177/09213740231171255
Víctor Mora Gaspar
In the 1970s, in different European countries, collectives for homosexual emancipation began to organize. Either as homophile groups of reformist character or as revolutionary fronts of liberation, the social movements of this period were characterized by the production of contestational texts against the discourse of hegemony. These publications, in addition to the positions and proposals of the collectives, document the relations of solidarity among them, as well as the exchange of knowledge, information and ideas. This paper presents the texts that document the relationships that existed between the Italian and Spanish collectives, which, in turn, might have been created thanks to the solidarity support of other movements.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-11DOI: 10.1177/09213740231171261
J. Beaman
Based on past and current ethnographic research and interviews with ethnic minorities in the Parisian metropolitan region, I argue that despite France’s colorblind and Republican ethos, France’s “visible minorities” function under a “suspect citizenship” in which their full societal belonging is never granted. I focus on the growing problem of state violence against ethnic minorities which reveals how France is creating a “bright boundary” (Alba 2005) between whites and non-whites, furthering disparate outcomes based on race and ethnic origin. By considering the multifaceted dimensions of citizenship and belonging in France, I demonstrate the limitations of full societal inclusion for France’s non-white denizens and how French Republicanism continues to mark, rather than erase, racial and ethnic distinctions.
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