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Artistic Conviviality

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Communicating for Change

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This chapter proposes the concept of artistic conviviality as an apt conceptual tool to study the convivial culture, which characterises artistic projects and interventions that use art to foster the recognition (Honneth, The Struggle for Recognition: The Moral Grammar of Social Conflicts. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1992) and inclusion of groups who suffer from marginality and misrecognition. It is argued that convivial culture in artistic spaces is often linked to struggles for social change and political solidarity understood as a political project for building social bonds between specific groups of people (e.g., artists, audiences, amateur participants and marginalised groups) for specific political goals (e.g., struggles for social justice).

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    Maria Rovisco

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Rovisco, M. (2020). Artistic Conviviality. In: Tacchi, J., Tufte, T. (eds) Communicating for Change. Palgrave Studies in Communication for Social Change. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42513-5_12

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