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Creativity and resistance in a hostile world / edited by Sarita Malik, Churnjeet Mahn, Michael Pierse and Ben Rogaly.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Politics and culture--Case studies.
- Politics and culture.
- Arts--Political aspects--Case studies.
- Arts.
- Artists--Political activity--Case studies.
- Artists.
- Dissenters, Artistic--Case studies.
- Dissenters, Artistic.
- Social movements--Case studies.
- Social movements.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xviii, 232 pages) : illustrations (black and white), digital, PDF file(s)
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2020.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Summary:
- What can culture, and its manifestations in artistic and creative forms, 'do?' This book draws on original collaborative research that brings together a range of stories and perspectives on the role of creativity and resistance in a hostile world. In times of racial nationalism across the world, it seeks to connect, in a grounded way, how creative acts have agitated for social change.
- Contents:
- Creativity and resistance in a hostile world
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- List of contributors
- A history of struggle for now
- On radical transformation
- Introduction: Creativity and resistance in a hostile world
- 1. Radical openness in a hostile world
- 2. ‘Lived theory’: the complexities of ‘radical openness’ in collaborative research
- 3. Creative anti-racisms: screen and digital labour as resistance
- 4. Workers: creative resistance to racial capitalism within and beyond the workplace
- 5. Creatively connecting civil rights: co-creation, theatre and collaboration for social transformation in Belfast
- 6. Re-curating a literary utopia: creative resistance in Preet Nagar
- Conclusion
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on February 25, 2026).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Creativity and resistance in a hostile world
- ISBN:
- 9781526152862 (electronic book)
- 9781526152848
- 1526152843
- 9781526152831
- 1526152835
- OCLC:
- 1227393970
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