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The aesthetics of political resistance: On silent politics

Author(s) -

Katariina Kaura-aho

Publication year - 2021

Publication title -

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Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.424

H-Index - 28

eISSN - 1461-7455

pISSN - 0725-5136

DOI - 10.1177/07255136211035154

Subject(s) - politics , refugee , subversion , resistance (ecology) , aesthetics , meaning (existential) , silence , sociology , democracy , gender studies , political science , epistemology , law , philosophy , ecology , biology

This article analyses the aesthetics of silent political resistance by focusing on refugees’ silent political action. The starting point for the analysis is Jacques Rancière’s philosophy and his theorisation of the aesthetics of politics. The article enquires into the aesthetic meaning of silent refugee activism and interprets how refugees’ silent acts of resistance can constitute aesthetically effective resistance to what can be called the ‘speech system’ of statist, representative democracy. The article analyses silence as a political tactic and interprets the emancipatory meaning of silent politics for refugees. It argues that refugees’ silent acts of political resistance can powerfully affect aesthetic, political subversion in prevailing legal-political contexts.

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