Aesthetics of Rule and Resistance

Lisa Bogerts is a Berlin-based political scientist, researcher, and editor. Her work focuses on political conflict and protest, visual communication, artistic activism, and power relations.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Political Power, Visual Communication, and Public SpaceChapter 1. From Conceptualizing to Analyzing Visual Power and ResistanceChapter 2. Street Art: A Medium of Visual Political CommunicationChapter 3. Setting the Scene: Street Art in Latin American Urban SpaceChapter 4. Buenos Aires: “Latin America – Now or Never”Chapter 5. Mexico City: “Another World is Possible” – Democracy, Freedom, JusticeChapter 6. Caracas: “El Comandante” is PresentChapter 7. Bogotá: “Exploitation Ruins Life”Chapter 8. Across the Cities: Strategies of Visual Meaning-MakingConclusions: “The Media Are Theirs, the Walls Are Ours”ReferencesAppendix A: Shooting Script for the Photo-DocumentationAppendix B: Image Descriptions and Image Sections/Composition from the Detailed AnalysesAppendix C: Code Frequencies

“This book will be an important intervention into the study of street art in particular, and of public art and artistic activism in general. The author approaches the subject with the rare combination of a scholar’s critical intellect and an artist’s aesthetic eye.” • Stephen Duncombe, New York University“An excellent book that captures the agency of street art interventions. The clear and innovative research methods represent a significant step forward in visual methodology, offering a lucid account of how to understand visual communication.” • Aidan McGarry, Loughborough University