Simon Teune – författare

This special issue is a key text in the current study of social movements. It introduces new analytical concepts for understanding visuals in social movements and examines case studies from across the globe; such as analysis of the symbols used in the Egyptian uprising, and contested images from anti-surveillance protests in Europe.

This special issue is a key text in the current study of social movements. It introduces new analytical concepts for understanding visuals in social movements and examines case studies from across the globe; such as analysis of the symbols used in the Egyptian uprising, and contested images from anti-surveillance protests in Europe.

During the last two decades Europe has experienced a rise in transnational contention. Citizens are crossing borders to advance alternative visions of Europe. They spread protest concepts and tactics and explore new ways of organizing dissent. Far from being a recent phenomenon, transnational protest is obviously more salient in a world of international corporations and global political interaction, compounded by electronic communication and cheap travel. The transnational condition permeates all aspects of protest organization and dynamics – from individual biographies to activist networks to cycles of contention. The contributors offer insight into this multifaceted condition by combining rich empirical evidence with reflections on the problems of transnational research.

This anthology presents and discusses current tools, methods, and analytical frameworks to address artistic interventions, taking a multidirectional approach that accounts for the positionality of perspectives and highlights the nondirectional formation of the interventions at hand.How do practices of artistic intervention engage with conceptual frameworks, in particular when it comes to location, institutional context, and human and nonhuman relations? How is the tension between concepts and actions, and between programmatic ideas and practices, addressed in historical and theoretical debates around performative, participative, and intervening arts? And in what ways do these debates provide possible tools for the analysis of artistic intervention today?This volume addresses the potentials and challenges of different forms of intervention at the intersection of activism and artistic fields and practices. The contributions, written by scholars from art history, sociology, and literary and performative studies as well as art practitioners, are present case studies that shed light on artistic practices that respond to geopolitical, sociocultural, and ecological crises, as well as on curatorial projects, the organization of collectives, and the role of institutions within the art field and academia. Individual contributions are accompanied by short interviews that give room to dialogues among the authors.