Michele Moody-Adams, "Making Space for Justice: Social Movements, Collective Imagination, and Political Hope" (Columbia UP, 2022)
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The Politics of Civic Art and Architecture
There are a few different sites that you discuss an outline in the book of, you know, sites of political imagination and as you mentioned aesthetic and epistemic and linguistic and narrative. Can you tell us a little bit about those different sites where imagination can be expanded? Yeah, so the book talks about three main sites, there may in fact be others, but I think these are three very prominent varieties of activism that tries to reshape social imaginaries. The first is aesthetic activism; it's what has led people to challenge Confederate monuments and Confederate flags,. But we should also remember that aesthetic activism can be used to create civic art and architecture which can actually constructively reshape a social imaginary.
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