Theorizing Cultural Activism: Practices, Dilemmas, Potentialities (original) (raw)

2010, Theorizing Cultural Activism: Practices, Dilemmas, Potentialities

This volume of Thamyris/Intersecting: Place, Sex, Race focuses on contemporary activist practices directed toward disturbing and reorienting the cultural and political sphere by attacking the narratives of truth in society by way of diverse tactics, such as culture jamming, sousveillance, media hoaxing, adbusting, subvertising, flash mobs, street art, hacktivism, billboard liberation, and urban guerilla, to name but a few. This form of activism, with its insistence on creative interventions based on the notions of humor, playfulness, and confusion appears to bring a novel dimension to conventional strategies of protest.