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CULTURE AND VISUAL FORMS OF POWER
Experiencing Contemporary Spaces of Resistance

Edited by Lidia K.C. Manzo

http://thehumanities.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.61/prod.47

This book is a collection of essays that brings together researchers
working on power relations with visual methods. The text is
epistemologically radical in attracting authors who look at culture as a
field of struggle, constructed by different points of view. Today, culture
can be seen as a specific field in which “power” is exercised. In
particular, questions about the nature of power are addressed. The editors
suggest two points in the discussion: how is reality constructed, and how
is it connected with power? What is the real space for subject freedom?
Foucault’s idea of “power” is that it is not a thing, but a relation. Power
is not merely repressive (like the use of violent control mechanisms in the
pre-modern era), but it is productive as well as an everyday disciplinary
practice. Starting from this perspective, we ask whether visual methodology
can be used to describe and analyze different forms of power.

These diverse contributions demonstrate how in a time of extensive social
change, culture is always a space for resistance. By examining cases in
which visual sociology is used as action research, the authors show the
affect of visual emergence in grass-roots social activism in the southeast
Australian mainland. For instance photography is used to analyze the
perceptions natives from a rural community have of their own territory, as
in the case of the Huarpe in Argentina. Incorporating comparative analysis
from different parts of the Global South, such as the performance of two
groups of photographers in Brazil and Bangladesh, they discover images are
in tension between “the dominant and the residual” in the critique of
design in Latin America. Subjectivities and video-based methodology are
also used to explore the intercourse between Roma and Italian culture and
expressions of resistance in the form of dance.

ISBN 978-1-61229-640-1

Contents - Preface, Timothy Shortell. Part I: Introduction - “And their
struggle becomes visible”: For a Radical Revaluation of Foucault’s
Conception of Resistance to Power, Lidia K.C. Manzo. Visual Methods in the
Study of Power, Timothy Shortell. Part II: Experiencing Contemporary Spaces
of Resistance to Power - Chapter 1: Beyond Foucault’s Subject of Power:
Affect and Visual Emergence in Grass-roots Social Activism, Karen Crinall.
Chapter 2: Contesting Images in the (Re)construction of Ethnic Identities
and Territories: The Case of a Huarpe Community in Argentina, Beatriz
Nussbaumer and Carlos Cowan Ros. Chapter 3: Photo-documentation, Culture
and Stereotypes: How the Global South is Struggling for Visual Forms of
Power, Fabiene Gama. Chapter 4: Design and Craft in Latin America: Images
in Tension between the Dominant and the Residual, Verónica Devalle.
Chapter 5: Subjectivity and Video-based Studies: Roma Culture, Forms of
Expression and Resistance in Dances, Tamara Bellone and Emiliana Armano.
Part III: Conclusions - Chapter 6: The Representations of Power and the
Power of Representations, Enzo Colombo.
Download the book cover here:
https://lidiakcmanzo.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/cp-book-cover.pdf


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Lidia K.C. Manzo, Ph.D.
Urban Studies and Social Research
Contract Professor of *Contemporary City: Social Change and Policies*
DAStU Department of Architecture and Urban Studies, Politecnico di Milano
University
Via Bonardi 3, 20133 Milano (ITALY)



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