Cultural Activism & Place Identities
September 4th, 2012
Inspired by an interest in the relationships between place, creative practice, and counter-hegemonic social and political action, over 60 participants attended this event and explored ideas about cultural activism; the spatiality of contentious politics; social movements; and theories of community in the fields of human and cultural geography, urban studies, planning theory and policy, cultural studies, women’s studies, sociology, and performance studies.
Keynote
Manifesto for Creative Activism:
Activist Ethnography, Sites of Intervention and Lines of F(l)ight
Keynote Speaker: Paul Routledge, University of Glasgow
Session 1
The Spatialities of Protest:
Public Bodies and City Spaces
Pollyanna Ruiz, London School of Economics and Political Science
Making "Counter Publics":
through the city: networks, exchanges and true creation of political discourses
Walter Nicholls, University of Amsterdam
Session 2
The Minute Interventions of Stewart Lee:
The Affective Conditions Of Possibility in Comedy, Repetition and Activism
Scott Sharpe, University of New South Wales
Maria Hynes, The Australian National University
JD Dewsbury, University of Bristol
Creative Methodologies as a Resource for Mayan Women’s Protagonism
Alison Crosby, York University
M. Brinton Lykes, Boston College
Situation Specific Art, Global Capitalism and Displacement Anxiety
Lynn Froggett, University of Central Lancashire
Session 3
Creating Solidarity:
Performance and Material Culture in British Anti-Apartheid Direct Action
Gavin Brown, University of Leicester
Disobedient Objects
Agency and Materiality in Activist Art
Gavin Grindon, Kingston University
Closing
Closing Statement and Seminar Reflections
Marilyn Taylor, UWE
Jane Arthurs, UWE
Stephen Bottoms, University of Manchester
Paul Routledge, University of Glasgow