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Micu, Andreea S.

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Performing the Commons: Urban Aesthetics in the Aftermath of the Southern European Economic Crisis.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Performing the Commons: Urban Aesthetics in the Aftermath of the Southern European Economic Crisis./
Author:	Micu, Andreea S.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2018,
Description:	191 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 80-01, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International80-01A.
Subject:	European Studies. -
Online resource:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10816790
ISBN:	9780438116849

Performing the Commons: Urban Aesthetics in the Aftermath of the Southern European Economic Crisis.
Micu, Andreea S.

Performing the Commons: Urban Aesthetics in the Aftermath of the Southern European Economic Crisis. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2018 - 191 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 80-01, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Northwestern University, 2018.

This item is not available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.

Performing the Commons: Urban Aesthetics in the Aftermath of the Southern European Economic Crisis explores practices of constructing an urban commons that have emerged at the intersection of art and politics to resist the consequences of austerity policies in Greece, Spain, and Italy in the aftermath of the 2008 economic crisis. These practices include improvisational street performances by anti-eviction housing activists in Madrid, the squatting of former factories and their repurposing into housing and contemporary art spaces in Rome, and the artistic production of contemporary Greek visual artists portraying the everyday dimensions of the economic crisis in Athens. Performing the Commons combines performance ethnography with a critical approach to political economy and urban studies to ask: how do working classes impoverished by the 2008 economic crisis and subsequent austerity policies collectively imagine alternatives to neoliberalism? To put if differently, what is the role of performance in building the commons? This dissertation employs performance as both an object of study and a methodological lens to investigate political assemblies, street gatherings, chant, expressive movement, squatting, everyday social practices, visual art, and photography as aesthetic forms of production of the commons in Madrid, Rome, and Athens in the context of post-2008 austerity policies imposed by the EU and national governments. Performing the Commons argues that performance is not merely an instrument in the political construction of the commons, but rather that the very construction of the commons is a performative practice, one that happens through and as embodied behavior that can be learned, repeated, and passed on. This work contributes nuanced understandings of the role of aesthetics in the creation of autonomous, egalitarian, and sustainable forms of urban life.

ISBN: 9780438116849Subjects--Topical Terms:

1673271
European Studies.
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Aftermath

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