Precarious Spaces

The Arts, Social and Organizational Change

By: Katarzyna Kosmala (Editor), Miguel Imas (Editor)

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eBook | 1 August 2016 | Edition Number 1

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Using an arts-based inquiry, Precarious Spaces addresses current concerns around the instrumentality and agency of art in the context of the precarity of daily life. The book offers a survey of socially and community-engaged art practices in South America, focusing in particular on Brazil's 'informal' situation, and contributes much to the ongoing debate of the possibility for change through social, environmental and ecological solutions. The individual chapters, compiled by Katarzyna Kosmala and Miguel Imas, present a wide spectrum of contemporary social agency models with a particular emphasis on detailed case studies and local histories. Featuring critical reflections on the spaces of urban voids, derelict buildings, self-built communities such as favela and roadside occupations, Precarious Spaces will make readers question their assumptions about precarity, and life in precarious realms.

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'Cultural politics has melted into thin air, or more accurately, this once powerful New Left paradigm has been monetized by finance capital, its dissent thoroughly commodified. But all is not lost. Enter Precarious Spaces. Packed with inventive methodologies and valuable case studies co-editors Katarzyna Kosmala and Miguel Imas have mobilized a remarkable cadre of critically engaged scholars for their project, who do not so much reject their allotted state of precarity, but who instead "flip it" around to their collective advantage. Precarious Spaces is a book, as much as it is a living theoretical framework offering essential lessons about the emerging art of precariousness. Focusing primarily on the Global South, which as we know is not always in The South, Precarious Spaces maps-out a process of "inverse colonialism" whereby those who dwell along the borders of a collapsing society strategically rag-pick and recycle its left-overs in order to assemble a survivable world from whatever is at hand. As precarity itself migrates from the perimeter into the general conditions of contemporary life, Precarious Spaces proves one thing above all else: resistance is not futile.'

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