Creativity and resistance in a hostile world

Creativity and resistance in a hostile worldWhat can culture, and its manifestations in artistic and creative forms, do? This book draws on original collaborative research that brings together a range of stories and perspectives on the role of creativity and resistance in a hostile world. In times of racial nationalism across the world, it seeks to connect, in a grounded way, how creative acts have agitated for social change.

In this collection

Urban Hope is an urgent

"A Game at Chess" was a nine days' wonder

In a novel about a novelist writing a novel that mirrors the novel he is in

Mette-Marie Zacher Sørensen

is decanted through the dictatorship of language into a miraculous

politics to the visual arts

it develops Popular Memory Theory to illuminate how migrants’ ‘recompose’ the self in response to the emotional challenges migration

Audrey Hepburn remains one of the world’s most beloved women

the lyric fragment

Tanya Toft Ag (editor) is a curator and scholar specializing in media and digital art and its urban implications

This is the first work to offer a collection of Polanyi's texts never before published in English