The Art of Civil Action

Philip Dietachmair, Pascal Gielen, Philip Dietachmair, Andrew Barnett, Llorenç Bonet, Ilya Budraitskis, Giuliana Ciancio, Milena Dragićević Šešić, Stefan Kaegi, Thijs Lijster, Hakan Topal, Max Haiven, Ivan Krastev, Tomislav Medak, Yudhishthir Raj Isar, Igor Stokfiszewski, Borka Pavićević

Civil society around the world is increasingly dealing with global questions, whereby it also begins to assume transnational forms of organisation. The arts, with their ability to project alternative realities and communicate ideas, can play a key role in addressing public and political problems. In looking at different platforms, activist groups, and new forms of citizens? initiatives, this book asks how cultural and art initiatives can both question and strengthen the civil domain. Social scientists, cultural theorists, activists, and artists explore how arts and culture can offer various strategies and forms of organisation for a locally rooted society in a globally connected context.