Poetics of Opposition in Contemporary Spain: Politics and the Work of Urban Culture

ISBN-13: 9781137536792 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 248 str.

Jonathan Snyder

Opis

The Spanish economic crisis and recent social mobilizations have renewed interest in critically rethinking cultural, social, and political circumstances. Critical readings mark two main loci as the stages of activity: cultural production largely of fringe status, and protests and assemblies in public spaces throughout Spanish cities. Pairing cultural analysis in urban contexts with interdisciplinary approaches to political culture, Jonathan Snyder argues that recent cultural production - including narrative, poetry, photography, theatre, and performance - in Spain grapples with the conditions and possibilities for social transformation in dialogue with the ongoing crisis, neoliberal governance, and political culture in Spain's democratic history.

Recenzje

"A detailed, perceptive, and elegantly written analysis of activist and cultural responses to today's economic crisis in Spain, stressing the positive role of the emotions and affect in the new social movements, and critiquing the inadequacy of attempts to explain the phenomenon by politicians and the media." - Jo Labanyi, New York University, USA

"This book offers a very original, witty, and well-researched interpretation of very recent cultural and political events in Spain. Snyder creates an extremely singular itinerary of analysis that includes works that respond to the economic/political crisis, and provides a whole new sense for the understanding of culture and politics." - Susana Draper, Princeton University, USA

O autorze

Jonathan Snyder is an adjunct professor of Spanish literary and cultural studies in Madrid, Spain. He teaches for ACCENT International, Boston University, USA and State University of New York, Albany, USA, and has been a Visiting Assistant Professor for the Cornell University Madrid summer program in recent years. He has published articles on Spanish photography, film, and the Movida and Transición to democracy. His former work experience includes freelance collaboration with the Museo Reina Sofía, PHotoEspaña Festival, and Madrid-based artists, among others.