The Aesthetics of Rule and Resistance : : Analyzing Political Street Art in Latin America / / Lisa Bogerts.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2022
• VerfasserIn: Bogerts, Lisa,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Protest, Culture & Society ; 29
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (348 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Illustrations and Tables --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction. Political Power, Visual Communication, and Public Space --; Chapter 1. From Conceptualizing to Analyzing Visual Power and Resistance --; Chapter 2. Street Art as a Medium of Visual Political Communication --; Chapter 3. Setting the Scene: Street Art in Latin American Urban Space --; Chapter 4. Buenos Aires: “Latin America—Now or Never” --; Chapter 5. Mexico City: “Another World Is Possible— Democracy, Freedom, Justice” --; Chapter 6. Caracas: “El Comandante” Is Present --; Chapter 7. Bogotá: “Exploitation Destroys Life” --; Chapter 8. A cross the Cities: Strategies of Visual Meaning-Making --; Conclusions. “The Media Are Theirs, the Walls Are Ours” --; Appendix A. Shooting Script for Photo Documentation --; Appendix B. Image Descriptions and Image Sections/Composition from the Detailed Analyses (I Level) --; Appendix C. Code Frequencies --; References --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781800731509; 9783110997668
• DOI: 10.1515/9781800731509
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Lisa Bogerts.

Effective visual communication has become an essential strategy for grassroots political activists, who use images to publicly express resistance and make their claims visible in the struggle for political power. However, this “aesthetics of resistance” is also employed by political and economic elites for their own purposes, making it increasingly difficult to distinguish from the “aesthetics of rule.” Through illuminating case studies of street art in Buenos Aires, Bogotá, Caracas, and Mexico City, The Aesthetics of Rule and Resistance explores the visual strategies of persuasion and meaning-making employed by both rulers and resisters to foster self-legitimization, identification, and mobilization.