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Author Landau, Friederike, author

Title Agonistic articulations in the "creative" city : on new actors and activism in Berlin's cultural politics / Friederike Landau
Edition 1 edition
Published New York : Routledge, 2019

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Description 1 online resource (223 pages)
Series Routledge studies in political sociology
Routledge studies in political sociology.
Contents Introduction: (cultural) politics in a supposedly post-political age -- Mapping a conflictual cultural landscape -- Articulation of an agonistic actor -- Bridge : how to institutionalize agonistic agency? -- (re)negotiating steering and rowing in governance -- Distillate and outlook -- Appendix: List of conducted interviews -- Index
Summary This book offers an empirically-grounded account of the emergence and political activities of a new collective actor in Berlin's art field. Investigating the organizational and representative practices of Koalition der Freien Szene (Coalition of the Independent Scene) - a trans-disciplinary action platform assembling a wide variety of cultural producers in Berlin - the author unpacks the political organization of one of the most compelling contemporary art scenes, or 'creative' cities, worldwide, analysing both its concrete policy 'success' and the means by which it seeks to challenge and rearticulate the meaning of Berlin as a 'creative' city from the producers' point of view. The book thus opens new opportunities for long-term transformations of the cultural political field. Theoretically sophisticated and based on empirical material including interviews with spokespeople and cultural administrators, Agonistic Articulations in the 'Creative' City presents a unique conceptualization of new modes of political collectivization, representation and legitimacy that imagine new avenues of political engagement at a time when political institutions, parties and regimes of representation are in crisis. As such, it will appeal to scholars of sociology, political science and urban studies with interests in social movements and cultural activism
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource, title from digital title page (Ebook Central, viewed on June 12, 2020)
Subject Berlin (Germany) -- Social conditions -- 21st century
Berlin (Germany) -- Social life and customs
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019007568
ISBN 9780429775420
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