Peace wanted alive
An artist’s response to Kenya’s post-election violence
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21877133 |
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| Authors | Craig Halliday (University of East Anglia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 61-83 |
| Publication date | 2020-12-04 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Excursions Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2055-494X • E-ISSN: 2044-4095 |
| Publisher | University of Sussex (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.20919/exs.10.2020.258 |
| OpenAlex | W3107630416 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 16 |
In this article I examine how the chaos of Kenya’s PEV became the source of motivation for Solo 7’s peace activism. For the artist, the term "chaos" was initially understood as a metaphor for the violence and destruction in the slum of Kibera (where Solo 7 resides), which upturned daily life as people knew it. The article will go on to argue that once this particular episode of chaos came to an end, other forms emerged – notably, an anxiety as to whether violence might reoccur, but also the uncertainty of surviving day to day in a precarious and highly unequal society. These multi-layered connotations of chaos created new subtexts for how Solo 7’s peace slogans and activism were interpreted and used by both the artist and public. [...] And they are needed today more than ever
Aesthetics · Art · Metaphor · Peace movement · Political science · Politics · Population · Slum · Sociology · Structural violence · Cambodian History and Society · Gender Studies · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · Law
The Culture of Politics in Modern Kenya
Monuments and Memories
Courting genocide
Introduction
Managing Heritage, Making Peace
The scars of dissipation
No Raila, No Peace!' Big Man Politics and Election Violence at the Kibera Grassroots
Briefing
From peace campaigns to peaceocracy
Business engagement in violence prevention and peace-building
Censorship or self-control? Hate speech, the state and the voter in the Kenyan election of 2013
Violence, Peace, and Peace Research
The Political Economy of Kenya's Crisis
The Kenyan Elections of 2007
| Highly cited | No |
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