The Art of Political Hope: Political Art, Counter Cultural Movements and Civic Space

这项博士提案的重点是使用艺术来扩大公民空间，并传达希望的政治信息。这项研究将着眼于20世纪70年代反文化运动和当代反文化政治艺术运动中政治艺术的生产。我的论文将询问1970年S时期反文化和去殖民主义运动的艺术家们使用了哪些技术、形式和过程来扩大公民空间，以及这些技术、形式和过程如何为当今在希望政治中运作的当代政治艺术和社会运动提供信息。我选择的艺术运动作为案例研究--位于孟加拉国和英国--在它们的意图和结构中反映了希望政治。首先，这些是一些运动的例子，这些运动利用当地的抵抗和韧性的历史剧本，动员和重写历史，为新的政治想象腾出空间。其次，它们面向社会中的特定类别的人，特别是那些历史上享有较少公民空间或公民身份要求的人，他们需要额外的支持才能获得公民、政治、社会和经济权利。第三，通过解决由新自由主义经济模式驱动的不断缩小的公民空间，他们强调了缩小公民空间的政治经济学，并试验了模拟可行发展未来或实践的模型。鉴于人们对艺术寄予极大的希望，以推动解决公民空间缩小的当代社会运动，质疑艺术如何扩大公民空间有可能在政治、发展和人权领域做出理论、经验和应用贡献；主要是通过对政治中一个新兴领域--希望的政治--做出跨学科的理论和经验贡献；第二，通过使用来自全球北方和南方的案例研究和理论，继续对西方学术经典和关于政治形式历史的欧洲中心主义叙事进行非殖民化；第三，它为探索扩大公民空间的可行发展未来做出了应用贡献。

The focus of this Ph.D. proposal is the use of art to expand civic space and inform the politics of hope. The research will take a long view on the production of political art within the counter-cultural movements of the 1970s and contemporary counter-cultural political art movements. My thesis will ask what techniques, forms and processes artists from the counter-cultural and de-colonisation movements of the 1970's have used to expand civic space, and how these can inform contemporary political arts and social movements operating within the politics of hope today.The art movements I have chosen as case studies - situated in Bangladesh and England - mirror the politics of hope in their intention and structures. Firstly, these are examples of movements that engage with locally situated historical scripts of resistance and resilience, mobilising and re-writing histories to make space for new political imaginations. Secondly, they seek audience with particular categories of people in society, particularly those that have historically enjoyed less civic space or claim on citizenship, and require additional support in order to access civil, political, social and economic rights. Thirdly, by addressing shrinking civic space driven by neoliberal economic models, they emphasise the political economy of shrinking civic space, and experiment with models that model viable development futures or practices.Given the amount of hope placed in the arts for fuelling contemporary social movements that address shrinking civic space, questioning how the arts expand civic space has the potential to make theoretical, empirical and applied contributions within the field of politics, development and human rights; primarily through an interdisciplinary theoretical and empirical contribution to an emerging field within politics - the politics of hope; secondly, to the continued decolonisation of the western academic canon and Eurocentric narratives about the history of political forms, by employing case studies and theories from the global north and south; thirdly it makes an applied contribution to the search for viable development futures for expanding civic space.