Precarious Spaces

Intellect
Precarious Spaces
Precarious Spaces
Product Specifications
  • Title: Precarious Spaces
  • Author: Precarious Spaces
  • Publisher: Intellect
  • Binding: Hardback
  • The arts general issues
  • No. of pages: 220
  • Dimensions (approx. mm): 178 x 238 x 23

Product Description

Using an arts-based inquiry Precarious Spaces addresses current concerns around the instrumentality and agency of art in the context of the precarity of daily life. The book offers a survey of socially and community-engaged art practices in South America focusing in particular on Brazil's 'informal' situation and contributes much to the ongoing debate of the possibility for change through social environmental and ecological solutions. The individual chapters compiled by Katarzyna Kosmala and Miguel Imas present a wide spectrum of contemporary social agency models with a particular emphasis on detailed case studies and local histories. Featuring critical reflections on the spaces of urban voids derelict buildings self-built communities such as favela and roadside occupations Precarious Spaces will make readers question their assumptions about precarity and life in precarious realms.