On political street art as expressions of citizen media in revolutionary Egypt

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This article traces the intersecting and interstitial spaces of political aesthetics in political street art featuring key activists of the Egyptian uprising of 2011-2013 as well as the following struggle. We argue that the complex political expressions displayed in the images as re-contextualized and embodied afford the images different roles in citizens’ political and social struggles. We develop three modalities of political street art – emplacement, travelling and conversation – that allow different works different roles in the political formation of subjectivity. In order to understand street art’s role in political subjectivity formation, this article applies visual discursive analyses on two expressions of political street art: Firstly, the stencil of a blue bra, referring to sitt al-banat, a woman who was stripped naked in public as she was beaten unconscious by Egyptian military soldiers. Secondly, the mural of then jailed activist Sanaa Seif in the Copenhagen-borough of Christiania.
OriginalsprogEngelsk
TidsskriftInternational Journal of Cultural Studies
Vol/bind24
Udgave nummer3
Sider (fra-til)434-453
Antal sider20
ISSN1367-8779
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 2021

    Forskningsområder

  • Det Humanistiske Fakultet - activism, citizen media, Egyptian uprising, Sanaa Seif, sitt al-banat, political street art

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