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

政治希望的艺术：政治艺术、反文化运动和公民空间

• 批准号: 2746984
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of York
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2746984
• 关键词: Art; Political; Hope; Counter; Cultural

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.

这个博士提案的重点是利用艺术来扩大公民空间，并告知希望的政治。本研究将对20世纪70年代反文化运动和当代反文化政治艺术运动中的政治艺术生产进行长期观察。我的论文将询问来自20世纪70年代反文化和去殖民化运动的艺术家们用来扩大公民空间的技术、形式和过程，以及这些技术、形式和过程如何在今天的希望政治中为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——在其意图和结构上反映了希望的政治。首先，这些都是运动的例子，这些运动与当地的抵抗和恢复历史剧本相结合，动员和重写历史，为新的政治想象腾出空间。第二，它们寻求与社会上特定类别的人接触，特别是那些历史上享有较少公民空间或要求公民身份的人，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公民空间萎缩问题，他们强调了公民空间萎缩的政治经济学，并尝试了为可行的发展未来或实践建模的模型。考虑到人们对艺术推动当代社会运动以解决日益缩小的公民空间寄予的希望，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；主要通过跨学科的理论和经验的贡献，在政治的一个新兴领域-希望的政治；其次，通过采用来自全球南北的案例研究和理论，西方学术经典和以欧洲为中心的政治形式历史叙事的持续去殖民化；第三，它为寻求扩大公民空间的可行发展前景作出了实际贡献。