- Convenor:
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José Sherwood Gonzalez
(Manchester Metropolitan University)
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- Format:
- Panel Discussion
Short Abstract
This panel explores creative and collective practices that promote positive social and cultural change in the context of social movements, protests and social justice.
Long Abstract
This panel will explore social movements & protest in the context of social justice. These papers explore creative and collective ways to create social and cultural change by and for local communities. We are interested in the power of art, music and creative expression to promote positive social and cultural change and we invite scholars, artists, members of communities and anyone who would like to join in our discussion about social movements and creativity. We look forward to seeing you soon!
Accepted papers
Session 1Paper short abstract
Land appropriation by capital owners and speculative business is a common practice in the city of Buenos Aires, and also is the struggle to regain those spaces by self-organized community collectives. We describe and analyze how the Colegiales community is currently organizing to create a "commons".
Paper long abstract
Land appropriation by capital owners and speculative business is a common practice in the city of Buenos Aires, one that has been protected (even) by law and political agreements - negotiations across parties in the left-right spectrum. A community self-organized initiative to create an urban arts-and-labor commons in Buenos Aires is described and analyzed in this paper, to show how the struggle to regain public spaces by self-organized community collectives is focused on the notion of "commons" and "solidarity in difference". We describe and analyze how the Colegiales community is currently organizing to create a "commons" by gathering together people from different backgrounds, perspectives, work-activities and experience (e.g., artists, social workers, small neighborhood shop owners, teachers, community organizations, cooperative of workers, etc.). We interpret the ways in which the current struggle for a piece of land in our neighborhood can be traced back to several other struggles over time in our geographical space in Colegiales. Therefore, we conclude by providing some insights into the relationship across geograph(ies), histor(ies), stor(ies), solidarity in difference, and commons.
Paper short abstract
Despite the subjectivation of protest songs is based on the recognition, political rally constitutes a space where rhizomatic discursivity and material flows morph into an indistinguishable noise. Such sonic events conceptualized as assemblages of enunciation reveal the split of subjectivity.
Paper long abstract
During the Summer 2019 protests in Moscow the musical performances became significant political (sonic) actors seemed to elaborate new concepts of protest in the conditions of uncertain crisis. Against the background of artists who had already obtained a protest aura, it is the September 29 performance of Khadn Dadn, a Moscow art-pop group whose apolitical lyrics stood out in a paradoxical and provocative way. My main claim is that combining phenomenological and ontological branches of sound studies would reveal the molar affects of such sonic action given that political rally is grasped as a sonorous archipelago in a certain tempo-spatial regime that imposes floating but perceptible frames. Moreover, schizoanalytic perspective includes the configurations of the ‘unconscious’ and ‘desire’ provides an avenue of conceptualizing sonorous as a libido of social body that threatens monopoly of protest discourse. This is crucial in the context of a large-scale political rally that constitutes a space where the realms of rhizomatic discursivity and material flows morph into an indistinguishable noise leaving no room for recognition. The rhythmic sonorous remains in an unstable condition of being-(un)perceived in the same manner as splitting of the centered political self does. This anthropological research of sound based on participant observation and sociological survey on a 29 September protest rally proposes a schizoanalytic metamodelization [Félix Guattari] of sonorous libido in the living context of the sonorous archipelago [François Bonnet] shaped as the assemblage of enunciation that tends to go beyond the singular form of subject and to create new milieus.
Paper short abstract
This study aims to understand how the neocrust bands of A Coruña have produced a rupturistic discourse against the "status quo". Against this, its ethos focuses mainly on promoting alternative models of coexistence, focused on social justice, environmentalism and animalism.
Paper long abstract
Neocrust is a subgenre that originates from the mixing of crust punk with other musical styles (derived from hardcore, as well as other metal subgenres). In addition, it is very common for the values conveyed by the style (as well as the lyrics of the songs) to be related to environmentalism, animalism, as well as criticism of technology and industrialization. In A Coruña (a city located in northwestern Spain), this subgenre was very important in the first decade of the 2000s, where bands such as Ekkaia, Ictus, Hongo, Madame Germen, Das Plage, SLS'3 – among others – have emerged. This relevance has also had a strong international impact, considering themselves references of this style.
This study aims to understand in detail how the values of neocrust are a counterweight to the wild growth of cities, capitalism, control of technology and loss of values of solidarity. To do this, a sociological analysis of speech systems will be carried out, elaborated from the lyrics of the songs, where it will try to understand not only criticism of the "status quo", but also how alternative models of community life are provided.