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

这个博士的重点。提案是用艺术来拓展公民空间，传达希望的政治。本研究将以长远的眼光看待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。我的论文将探讨20世纪70年代反文化和去殖民化运动中的艺术家们使用了什么样的技术、形式和过程来拓展公民空间，以及这些技术、形式和过程如何影响当代政治艺术和在希望政治中运作的社会运动。我选择的孟加拉国和英国的艺术运动作为案例研究，它们的意图和结构反映了希望政治。首先，这些运动的例子是与当地的抵抗和韧性的历史脚本，动员和重写历史，为新的政治想象创造空间。第二，他们寻求社会中特定类别的人的听众，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，他们强调公民空间萎缩的政治经济学，并尝试可行的发展未来或实践模型。鉴于艺术被寄予的推动当代社会运动解决公民空间萎缩的希望，质疑艺术如何扩大公民空间有可能使理论，在政治、发展和人权领域的经验和应用贡献;主要是通过对政治中的一个新兴领域-希望政治-的跨学科理论和经验贡献;其次，西方学术经典和欧洲中心主义关于政治形式历史的叙述的持续非殖民化，通过采用全球北方和南方的案例研究和理论;第三，它为寻求可行的发展前景以扩大公民空间作出了实际贡献。

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.