Understanding Displacement Aesthetics
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A01=Ana Carden-Coyne
A01=Angeliki Roussou
A01=Charles Green
A01=Chrisoula Lionis
art history
Author_Ana Carden-Coyne
Author_Angeliki Roussou
Author_Charles Green
Author_Chrisoula Lionis
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collaborative curatorship
curatorship
displacement aesthetics
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forced displacement
history of migration
history of war
Migration
refugee artists
visual tropes of refugeedom
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- ISBN 9781526181480
- Weight: 818g
- Dimensions: 170 x 244mm
- Publication Date: 06 Jan 2026
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Since the Second World War and the formalisation of the international refugee regime, forced displacement has been marked by a set of aesthetic, practical, and institutional concerns. Understanding Displacement Aesthetics examines how visual culture and art practice constructs and challenges ideas about forced displacement and refugees. The novel framework for ‘displacement aesthetics’ moves beyond conventional understandings of aesthetics as merely representational, demonstrating the entanglement of visual culture, art practices, and forced displacement in postmigrant contexts. Bringing together the fields of cultural history, art history, and curatorial studies, Understanding Displacement Aesthetics identifies four areas for consideration: visual tropes of refugeedom; language and identity; institutional and artistic responses to displacement; and lived experiences of artists with backgrounds of displacement. Through archival research, visual culture and art, interviews, and collaborative curatorship, Understanding Displacement Aesthetics offers new insight into overcoming the limitations that contexts of displacement can present for artists, art galleries and institutions addressing refugeedom and its legacies.
Professor Ana Carden-Coyne is Director of the Centre for the Cultural History of War at the University of Manchester
Chrisoula Lionis is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Manchester and co-Director of Artists for Artists (AfA)
Angeliki Roussou is Teaching Fellow in Modern and Contemporary Art History at the University of Edinburgh
Charles Green is Professor of Contemporary Art in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne
