Performing Human Rights

Performing Human Rights
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Total Pages : 304
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ISBN-10 : 3035802610
ISBN-13 : 9783035802610
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Book Synopsis Performing Human Rights by : Liliana Gómez-Popescu

Download or read book Performing Human Rights written by Liliana Gómez-Popescu and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-30 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The invisibilization of political violence, its material traces, and spatial manifestations, characterizes conflict and post-conflict situations. Yet, artists, writers, and human rights activists increasingly seek to challenge this invisibility, contesting the related historical amnesia through counter-semantics and dissonant narratives. Adopting "performance" as a concept that is defined by repetitive, aesthetic practices--such as speech and bodily habits through which both individual and collective identities are constructed and perceived--this collection addresses various forms of performing human rights in transitional situations in Spain, Latin America, and the Middle East. Bringing scholars together with artists, writers, and curators, and working across a range of disciplines, Performing Human Rights addresses these instances of omission and neglect, revealing how alternate institutional spaces and strategies of cultural production have intervened in the processes of historical justice and collective memory.


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