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  • ISBN 9781783205936
  • Weight: 617g
  • Dimensions: 178 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 20 Jul 2016
  • Publisher: Intellect
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
  • Language: English
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Description
Using an arts-based inquiry, Precarious Spaces addresses current concerns around the instrumentality and agency of art in the context of the precarity of daily life. The book offers a survey of socially and community-engaged art practices in South America, focusing in particular on Brazil’s 'informal' situation, and contributes much to the ongoing debate of the possibility for change through social, environmental and ecological solutions. The individual chapters, compiled by Katarzyna Kosmala and Miguel Imas, present a wide spectrum of contemporary social agency models with a particular emphasis on detailed case studies and local histories. Featuring critical reflections on the spaces of urban voids, derelict buildings, self-built communities such as favela and roadside occupations, Precarious Spaces will make readers question their assumptions about precarity, and life in precarious realms.
About

Katarzyna Kosmala Ph.D. is Reader in Visual Culture and Organization, University of the West of Scotland, UK; Visiting Research Fellow at GEXcel, Institute of Thematic Gender Studies, Linköping University & Örebro University, Sweden and Visiting Professor at the Getulio Vargas Foundation in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, a curator and freelance art writer. She researches and writes on aspects of construction and representation of gender and identity politics in contemporary (visual) culture, creative work, cultural labour and discourses of creativity, identity and community in the context of a globalising network society, art production and enterprise; arts-run projects and politics of representation.

Miguel Imas is a senior lecturer in organisational and social psychology at Kingston University, London, and a research associate of the London Multimedia Lab at the London School of Economics. He is also one of the editors of Precarious Spaces.