On political street art as expressions of citizen media in revolutionary Egypt
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On political street art as expressions of citizen media in revolutionary Egypt. / Blaagaard, Bolette; Mollerup, Nina Grønlykke.
In: International Journal of Cultural Studies, Vol. 24, No. 3, 2021, p. 434-453.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - On political street art as expressions of citizen media in revolutionary Egypt
AU - Blaagaard, Bolette
AU - Mollerup, Nina Grønlykke
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - This article traces the intersecting and interstitial spaces of political aesthetics in political street art featuring key activists of the Egyptian uprising of 2011–13 as well as the following struggle. We argue that the complex political expressions displayed in the images as recontextualized and embodied afford the images different roles in citizens’ political and social struggles. We develop three modalities of political street art – emplacement, travelling and conversation – that allow different works different roles in the political formation of subjectivity. In order to understand street art’s role in political subjectivity formation, this article applies visual discursive analyses to two expressions of political street art: first, the stencil of a blue bra, referring to sitt al-banat, a woman who was stripped naked in public as she was beaten unconscious by Egyptian military soldiers; second, the mural of then jailed activist Sanaa Seif in the Copenhagen borough of Christiania.
AB - This article traces the intersecting and interstitial spaces of political aesthetics in political street art featuring key activists of the Egyptian uprising of 2011–13 as well as the following struggle. We argue that the complex political expressions displayed in the images as recontextualized and embodied afford the images different roles in citizens’ political and social struggles. We develop three modalities of political street art – emplacement, travelling and conversation – that allow different works different roles in the political formation of subjectivity. In order to understand street art’s role in political subjectivity formation, this article applies visual discursive analyses to two expressions of political street art: first, the stencil of a blue bra, referring to sitt al-banat, a woman who was stripped naked in public as she was beaten unconscious by Egyptian military soldiers; second, the mural of then jailed activist Sanaa Seif in the Copenhagen borough of Christiania.
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - activism
KW - citizen media
KW - Egyptian uprising
KW - Sanaa Seif
KW - sitt al-banat
KW - political street art
KW - activism
KW - citizen media
KW - Egyptian uprising
KW - political street art
KW - Sanaa Seif
KW - sitt al-banat
U2 - 10.1177/1367877920960731
DO - 10.1177/1367877920960731
M3 - Journal article
VL - 24
SP - 434
EP - 453
JO - International Journal of Cultural Studies
JF - International Journal of Cultural Studies
SN - 1367-8779
IS - 3
ER -
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