Art, Power and Knowledge: Claiming Public Space in Tunisia

Main author: Tripp, Charles
Format: Journal Article           
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Summary: Charles Tripp argues that through artistic interventions – graffiti, visual street art, performances, demonstrations, banners, slogans – citizens have appropriated the public sphere. Despite the monitoring of political dissent through persuasion or coercion, an activist public has created highly visible public spaces, assisted and encouraged by citizen artists. They have generated debates and have helped to give substance to competing visions of the republic.
Language: English
Published: Brill 2016