The Aesthetics of Rule and Resistance

The Aesthetics of Rule and ResistanceEffective visual communication has become an essential strategy for grassroots political activists, who use images to publicly express resistance and make their claims visible in the struggle for political power. However, this aesthetics of resistance is also employed by political and economic elites for their own purposes, making it increasingly difficult to distinguish from the aesthetics of rule. Through illuminating case studies of street art in

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and they also highlight the theoretical and ideological challenges surrounding this field of study

– James Van Rhee

beginning with small indignities and culminating in mass imprisonment and deportations

the skills needed by anthropologists working in applied contexts where multidisciplinary work is often undertaken

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including day-to-day health care delivery in a city of crisis

The last few decades have witnessed a growing integration of the world system of production on the basis of a new relationship between less developed and highly industrialized countries

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or when they seem "meaningless"

It explores and clarifies the principles