King's College London
Culture, Media and Creative Industries
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This article looks at the practices of Shell Out Sounds and BP or not BP?, two environmentalist groups that stage interventionist performances against oil sponsorship of the arts in the UK. By considering theories of prefiguration in... more
Part of the Cultural Anthropology Online Field Notes Series on 'Activism'
Herbert Read’s 1941 essay ‘To Hell with Culture’ spoke of the state of artistic practice under a capitalist system and conditioned by the structures of the art institution. Read saw a project for social change that had art and culture at... more
Public event hosted by Instituto de Investigaciones Gino Germani on November 22, 2017. A look at strategies and poetics of resistance under extractivism.
Performance Action looks to advance the understanding of how art activism works in practice, by unpacking the relationship between the processes and politics that lie at its heart. Focusing on the UK but situating its analysis in a global... more
Short piece on theoretical approaches to the study of art activism
Vista Alegre is a municipality in the province of Neuquén, Argentina. Situated in a region traditionally known for its fruticulture economy, Vista Alegre has recently been identified as a potential location for fracking, a development... more
The authors outline how multiple dimensions—historical and contemporary; global and local; political, economic, social, and cultural—inform an understanding of the super-rich. Recent super-rich scholarship is reviewed with regard to three... more
Affects are positive or negative investments that we have toward people, but also ideas, things and places (Goodwin et al. 2004:418). It is through affects that we often relate to others. Affect, as emotions, are embodied because “they... more
Resumen: En Argentina y otros países de América Latina, la mercantilización de la naturaleza y la expropiación del territorio son objeto de cuestionamiento por su afectación a los comunes. Este artículo analiza aquellas expresiones de... more
This article examines the ways in which community radios can act as spaces and vehicles of care for communities fighting extractivism. I draw from fieldwork research carried out in Argentina, and look at experiences of community radio in... more