Creative Resistance

Author : Sabine Damir-Geilsdorf,Stephan Milich
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783839440698

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Creative Resistance by Sabine Damir-Geilsdorf,Stephan Milich Pdf

During the uprisings of the Arab Spring between 2010 and 2012, oppositional movements used political humor to criticize political leaders or to expose the absurdities of the socio-political conditions. These humorous expressions in various art forms such as poetry, stand-up comedy, street art, music, caricatures, cartoons, comics and puppet shows were further distributed in the social media. This first comprehensive study of political humor in the uprisings explores the varieties and functions of political humor as a creative tool for resistance. It analyzes humorous forms of cultural expression and their impact on socio-political developments in different countries of the Middle East and North Africa with a special focus on the changing modes of humor.

Author : Sayraphim Lothian
Publisher : Mango Media Inc.
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781633537415

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Guerrilla Kindness & Other Acts of Creative Resistance by Sayraphim Lothian Pdf

“Full of ways to show your support for a cause through homemade items . . . a great book for anyone who wants to grow their skills as a maker.” —Nerdy Girl Express Craftivism is a non-threatening form of activism that gives people a voice when they feel voiceless and power where they feel powerless. It is an international movement for our time and artist, scholar, activist, and YouTube art teacher Sayraphim Lothian has put together the first-ever tutorial book on craftivism. This master craftivist shows you how to make and use various crafts for political and protest purposes including: · Embroidery · Cross stitch · Knitting · Stenciling · Decoupage · Stamping and much more Craftivism is a growing worldwide movement in which handcrafted works are being used to highlight political issues, creatively engage in activism, and encourage change in the world. Craftivists employ their works to open a space for people to be introduced to issues and to broaden the discussion surrounding them. While it might seem that this most colorful movement began recently, creative resistance has been with us for centuries around the globe, and craftivism and makers stating their mind through the medium of art is here to stay. “Whether capturing the stories in crochet, or creating spontaneous interventions of crafted kindness, Sayraphim Lothian’s projects show that the new resistance can be artistic, clever, and kind. Whether using street art or baking, embroidery or soft sculpture, she demonstrates that craftivism is, at it’s very best, a medium devoted to connecting humans together, one creative act at a time.” —Leanne Prain, coauthor of Yarn Bombing: The Art of Crochet & Knit Graffiti

Author : Robert Fritz
Publisher : Butterworth-Heinemann
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-16
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781483103686

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The Path of Least Resistance by Robert Fritz Pdf

The Path of Least Resistance: Learning to Become the Creative Force in Your Own Life, Revised and Expanded discusses how humans can find inspiration in their own lives to drive creative process. This book discusses that by understanding the concept of structure, we can reorder the structural make-up of our lives; this idea helps clear the way to the path of least resistance that will lead to the manifestation of our most deeply held desires. This text will be of great use to individuals who seek to use their own lives as the driving force of their creative process.

Author : Kristen Kieffer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 173420642X

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Build Your Best Writing Life by Kristen Kieffer Pdf

Is there a gap between where you are and where you want to be in your writing life? Maybe you have a drawer full of unfinished manuscripts or a story idea you're struggling to develop. Maybe you're frustrated with your writing progress or overwhelmed by creative doubt, burnout, or writer's block. Maybe you just can't seem to sit down and write. No matter the roadblock standing between you and writing success, here's the good news: You're capable of becoming the writer you want to be-and that work can begin today. In this actionable and empowering guide to personal writing success, Kristen Kieffer shares 25 insightful chapters designed to help you:? Cultivate confidence in your skills and stories? Develop a personal writing habit you can actually sustain? Improve your writing ability with tools for intentional growth? Discover what you (really) want from your writing life-and how to get it! By the end of Build Your Best Writing Life, you'll know how to harness the simple techniques that can help you win your inner creative battles, finish projects you can be proud to share with the world, and work with focus to turn your writing dreams into reality.

Author : Andrew Boyd,Juman Abujbara (Lawyer),Dave Oswald Mitchell,Marcel Taminato (Anthropologist)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-20
Category : Art and social action
ISBN : 1771133414

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Beautiful Rising by Andrew Boyd,Juman Abujbara (Lawyer),Dave Oswald Mitchell,Marcel Taminato (Anthropologist) Pdf

In the struggle for freedom and justice, organizers and activists have often turned to art, creativity, and humor. In this follow-up to the bestselling Beautiful Trouble: A Toolbox for Revolution, Beautiful Rising showcases some of the most innovative tactics used in struggles against autocracy and austerity across the Global South. Based on face-to-face jam sessions held in Yangon, Amman, Harare, Dhaka, Kampala, and Oaxaca, Beautiful Rising includes stories of the Ugandan organizers who smuggled two yellow-painted pigs into parliament to protest corruption; the Burmese students' 360-mile-long march against undemocratic and overly centralized education reforms; the Lebanese "honk at parliament" campaign against politicians who had clung to power long after their term had expired; and much more.

Author : Andrew Boyd,David Oswald Mitchell
Publisher : OR Books
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781939293169

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Beautiful Trouble by Andrew Boyd,David Oswald Mitchell Pdf

Banksy, the Yes Men, Gandhi, Starhawk: the accumulated wisdom of decades of creative protest is now in the hands of the next generation of change-makers, thanks to Beautiful Trouble. Sophisticated enough for veteran activists, accessible enough for newbies, this compact pocket edition of the bestselling Beautiful Trouble is a book that’s both handy and inexpensive. Showcasing the synergies between artistic imagination and shrewd political strategy, this generously illustrated volume can easily be slipped into your pocket as you head out to the streets. This is for everyone who longs for a more beautiful, more just, more livable world – and wants to know how to get there. Includes a new introduction by the editors. Contributors include: Celia Alario • Andy Bichlbaum • Nadine Bloch • L. M. Bogad • Mike Bonnano • Andrew Boyd • Kevin Buckland • Doyle Canning • Samantha Corbin • Stephen Duncombe • Simon Enoch • Janice Fine • Lisa Fithian • Arun Gupta • Sarah Jaffe • John Jordan • Stephen Lerner • Zack Malitz • Nancy L. Mancias • Dave Oswald Mitchell • Tracey Mitchell • Mark Read • Patrick Reinsborough • Joshua Kahn Russell • Nathan Schneider • John Sellers • Matthew Skomarovsky • Jonathan Matthew Smucker • Starhawk • Eric Stoner • Harsha Walia

Author : Michael Curtin,Kevin Sanson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520964808

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Precarious Creativity by Michael Curtin,Kevin Sanson Pdf

At free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s new open access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Precarious Creativity examines the seismic changes confronting media workers in an age of globalization and corporate conglomeration. This pathbreaking anthology peeks behind the hype and supposed glamor of screen media industries to reveal the intensifying pressures and challenges confronting actors, editors, electricians, and others. The authors take on pressing conceptual and methodological issues while also providing insightful case studies of workplace dynamics regarding creativity, collaboration, exploitation, and cultural difference. Furthermore, it examines working conditions and organizing efforts on all six continents, offering broad-ranging and comprehensive analysis of contemporary screen media labor in such places as Lagos, Prague, Hollywood, and Hyderabad. The collection also examines labor conditions across a range of job categories that includes, for example, visual effects, production services, and adult entertainment. With contributions from such leading scholars as John Caldwell, Vicki Mayer, Herman Gray, and Tejaswini Ganti, Precarious Creativity offers timely critiques of media globalization while also intervening in broader debates about labor, creativity, and precarity.

Author : Ananta Kumar Giri
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781003814993

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Cultivating Integral Development by Ananta Kumar Giri Pdf

This book cultivates visions and practices of integral development of the self, society, and the world. It builds upon deconstructions of development discourse and practice and strives to reconstruct and reconstitutes it as integral development. It addresses entrenched dualisms in development studies and practices such as between the self and the other, the providers of development and its recipients, materialism, and spirituality, and cultivates pathways of integral development. The book explores the many challenges facing development studies and practice such as poverty, creativity, political economy, moral economy, leadership, sustainable development, and evolutionary flourishing. It also opens the discourse and practice of development to cross-cultural dialogues by undertaking discussions between Euro-centric approaches to development and other visions and practices of development such as Purusartha, Swadhyaya, Sarvodaya, integral yoga, and Lokasasamgraha from Indic traditions. Drawing on multiple cultural and philosophical resources and traditions, Cultivating Integral Development is a pioneering work and will be of great interest to scholars, researchers, and actors of development studies, political science, and philosophy as well as concerned human beings around the world.

Author : Hélène Frichot
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-13
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781350036543

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Creative Ecologies by Hélène Frichot Pdf

Architect and philosopher Hélène Frichot examines how the discipline of architecture is theorized and practiced at the periphery. Eschewing a conventionally direct approach to architectural objects – to iconic buildings and big-name architects – she instead explores the background of architectural practice, to introduce the creative ecologies in which architecture exists only in relation to other objects and ideas. Consisting of a series of philosophical encounters with architectural practice that are neither neatly located in one domain nor the other, this book is concerned with 'other ways of doing architecture'. It examines architecture at the limits where it is muddied by alternative disciplinary influences – whether art practice, philosophy or literature. Frichot meets a range of creative characters who work at the peripheries, and who challenge the central assumptions of the discipline, showing that there is no 'core of architecture' – there is rather architecture as a multiplicity of diverse concerns in engagement with local environments and worlds. From an author well-known in the disciplines of architecture and philosophy for her scholarship on Deleuze, this is a radical, accessible, and highly-original approach to design research, deftly engaging with an array of current topics from the Anthropocene to affect theory, new materialism contemporary feminism.

Author : Josh MacPhee
Publisher : The Feminist Press at CUNY
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-09
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781558616783

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Celebrate People's History! by Josh MacPhee Pdf

The best way to learn history is to visualize it! Since 1998, Josh MacPhee has commissioned and produced over one hundred posters by over eighty artists that pay tribute to revolution, racial justice, women's rights, queer liberation, labor struggles, and creative activism and organizing. Celebrate People's History! presents these essential moments—acts of resistance and great events in an often hidden history of human and civil rights struggles—as a visual tour through decades and across continents, from the perspective of some of the most interesting and socially engaged artists working today. Celebrate People's History includes artwork by Cristy Road, Swoon, Nicole Schulman, Christopher Cardinale, Sabrina Jones, Eric Drooker, Klutch, Carrie Moyer, Laura Whitehorn, Dan Berger, Ricardo Levins Morales, Chris Stain, and more.

Author : Maryam Jamshidi
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780124165748

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The Future of the Arab Spring by Maryam Jamshidi Pdf

Civic entrepreneurship lies at the heart of the Arab Spring. From the iconic image of an occupied Tahrir Square to scenes of dancing protesters in Syria and politically conscious hip hop in Tunisia, people across the Middle East and North Africa continue to collaborate and experiment their way out of years of dictatorship and political stagnation. The Future of the Arab Spring examines the spirit of civic entrepreneurship that brought once untouchable dictators to their knees and continues to shape the region's political, artistic, and technology sectors. Through interviews with some of the region's leading civic entrepreneurs, including political activists, artists, and technologists, Maryam Jamshidi broadens popular understandings of recent events in this misunderstood region of the world. Features first-hand interviews with some of the most important political, cultural, and economic players on the ground in Egypt, Yemen, Tunisia, and other Arab Spring countries Offers a window into a region often misunderstood in the United States Illuminates the potential for positive, grassroots change in the social, political, and economic systems of Arab countries

Author : David Courpasson,Jean-Claude Thoenig
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2010-09-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780230277861

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When Managers Rebel by David Courpasson,Jean-Claude Thoenig Pdf

One day, out of the blue, when not even they themselves are expecting it, somewhere a high-profile middle manager will reach breaking-point, and rebel. This protest needs to be taken seriously

Author : Douglas E. Foley
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Education
ISBN : 0812213149

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Learning Capitalist Culture by Douglas E. Foley Pdf

An ethnographic study of a small, predominantly Mexican American south Texas town, based on fieldwork done over a 14-year period. Foley (anthropology and education, U. of Texas at Austin) studied high school students and the informal, cultural side of pedagogy and school organization; the study reflects the cultural and political ferment of the 1960s and 1970s, and includes reflections on the 1980s by the same youths originally interviewed, now young adults. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Sham Godolphin
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780244122843

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Theory of The New Class Avant Garde: 10 World Hacks by Sham Godolphin Pdf

Author : Pamela Burnard,Elizabeth Mackinlay,Kimberly Powell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781317437260

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The Routledge International Handbook of Intercultural Arts Research by Pamela Burnard,Elizabeth Mackinlay,Kimberly Powell Pdf

For artists, scholars, researchers, educators and students of arts theory interested in culture and the arts, a proper understanding of the questions surrounding ‘interculturality’ and the arts requires a full understanding of the creative, methodological and interconnected possibilities of theory, practice and research. The International Handbook of Intercultural Arts Research provides concise and comprehensive reviews and overviews of the convergences and divergences of intercultural arts practice and theory, offering a consolidation of the breadth of scholarship, practices and the contemporary research methodologies, methods and multi-disciplinary analyses that are emerging within this new field.