Artistic Utopias of Revolt Claremont Road, Reclaim the Streets, and the City of Sol /

• Main Author: Ramírez Blanco, Julia (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Utopianism
• Subjects: Europe-History-1492-.; History, Modern.; Cities and towns-History.; World politics.; Civilization-History.; History of Modern Europe.; Modern History.; Urban History.; Political History.; Cultural History.

This book analyses the aesthetic and utopian dimensions of various activist social movements in Western Europe since 1989. Through a series of case studies, it demonstrates how dreams of a better society have manifested themselves in contexts of political confrontation, and how artistic forms have p...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: Art as Language, Utopia as Discourse
• 2. Activism as a Place: The British Anti-Roads Movement and the Squatted Street of Claremont Road
• 3. The Reclaim the Streets Protest Parties in London
• 4. Interlude: The Globalization of the Aesthetics of Protest
• 5. Disobedience as an Urban Form: The Acampadasol in Madrid
• 6. Notes Towards a Conclusion
• Chronology of Events
• Glossary
• Index.