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Art of Activism

Jung, Politics and Culture

Av Ipek S. Burnett

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What can public art, poetry, and protest accomplish that politics alone cannot? The Art of Activism brings post-Jungian psychology into conversation with movements of creative resistance around the world by advancing a “socio-aesthetic attitude”: an orientation that refuses to separate aesthetics from ethics, reflection from action, or inner transformation from social change.The book presents activism as a creative and deeply psychological practice, illustrated through case studies including the freedom songs of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, the poetry of women’s liberation, murals on the Berlin Wall, Indigenous practices of ecological reciprocity, AIDS activism, the Arab Spring, Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement, and Russia’s anti-war protests. Together, these cases reveal how aesthetic engagement counters psychic numbing and fatalism by awakening moral imagination, giving form to collective grief and dissent, challenging dominant narratives, and sustaining the shared meaning and political will that movements need to endure.Rigorous and urgent, The Art of Activism is essential reading for scholars and students in Jungian and post-Jungian psychology, politics, cultural studies, and the wider humanities and social sciences, as well as for artists and activists.
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Ipek S. Burnett is the author of A Jungian Inquiry into the American Psyche: The Violence of Innocence, the editor of Re-Visioning the American Psyche: Jungian, Archetypal, and Mythological Reflections, and a Turkish novelist and essayist. Based in San Francisco, she works with human rights and social justice organizations.

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‘Can art change not only how we see the world, but how we act within it? The Art of Activism argues that aesthetic experience lies at the heart of personal and collective transformation. From freedom songs and protest poetry to murals, Indigenous ceremony, and the iconic images of global resistance, this book reveals how creative expression awakens empathy, restores hope, and inspires courageous action. At a time when apathy and polarization threaten democratic life, it offers a timely and powerful exploration of art’s capacity to heal, connect, and mobilize communities in the pursuit of justice.’Mary Watkins, co-author of Toward Psychologies of Liberation and Up Against the Wall: Re-Imagining the U.S.-Mexican Border‘More than forty years ago, Joe Henderson sketched out the notion of aesthetic and social cultural attitudes as part of the human psychological constitution. Now Ipek Burnett gives us the flesh and blood of that theory, embodied in art, music, poetry, dance, and social activism around the world, expressing the deepest human need: to belong, to shape our common life, and, at times, to revolutionize it. The Art of Activism is a major contribution, showing how essential these attitudes are and the many ways each of us can contribute to the common good, even when unsure whether what we do is right, or enough.’Thomas Singer, creator of “The Barbaric Yawp Project” and author of A Field Guide to American Cultural Complexes‘The Art of Activism by Ipek Burnett shows that art, activism and psychology need each other if the human spirit is to survive the current crisis. Building on Jung’s relational individuation and James Hillman’s sense of the aesthetic as a call to act, Burnett uses case studies from around the world to demonstrate that art trains the moral imagination. Without the art, activism is blind. Without activism, art becomes sentiment that conceals the brutality of power. The Art of Activism is for everyone who wants to be fully alive.’Susan Rowland, core faculty at Pacifica Graduate Institute, co-author of Jungian Arts-Based Research and the Nuclear Enchantment of New Mexico‘The Art of Activism is a timely wise and generous gift to our beautiful suffering world at a critical turning point in human history. I am grateful to Dr. Burnett, whose intellectual brilliance and thoughtfully curated examples of global aesthetic activism are the weave of a deeply reflective, morally imaginative and inspiring volume.’Karin Lofthus Carrington, editor, Transforming Terror: Remembering the Soul of the World

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