Socially Engaged Art, Direct Democracy, and Artistic Autonomy

The article analyzes the global context of socially engaged art, through focusing on the critical relationship between the Zapatista and Rojava insurgencies, post-alter globalization politics and socially engaged art in period of unipolar American imperialism, and the planetary consolidation of neoliberalism. In what ways does socially engaged art globally derive its production of modes of direct democracy from the ‘enclave politics’ of the Zapatista and Rojava? And to what ends are the vulnerabilities of the Zapatista and Rojava insurgencies reflected in socially engaged art's experiments in democracy

Aesthetics · Art · Autonomy · Democracy · Direct democracy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Art Education and Development · Artistic and Creative Research · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Law