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Alberto Cossu is a Lecturer in New Media and Digital Culture in the Department of Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam. Jessica Holtaway is a PhD candidate in the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths College, University of London.Paula Serafini is a Research Associate at CAMEo Research Institute for Cultural and Media Economies, University of Leicester.

• Preface/Introduction/ 1. Reimaging, Reimagining, or Reimagineering: Rebranding Ulster, Sarah Feinstein and Sheelagh Colclough/ 2. Art, Activism, and Addressing Sexual Assault in the UK: A Case Study, Winnie M Li/ 3. Macao before and beyond social media: the creation of the unexpected as a mobilisation logic, Alberto Cossu and Maria Francesca Murru/ 4. The Political Value of Techno-future, Emanuele Braga/ 5. Changing the Narrative: Highlighting Workers’ Rights in Environmental Art Activism, Paula Serafini/ 6. Working Dancers; contemporary dance activism in Argentina, Konstantina Bousmpoura and Julia Martinez Heimann/ 7. Making Art Relevant in the Aftermath of the Egyptian Uprising, Rounwah Bseiso/ 8. Collective art-making to agitate for social change: Liberate Tate in parallel with The Wooster Group, Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp, Forced Entertainment, La Pocha Nostra, Climate Camp and Occupy Wall Street, Mel Evans/ 9. Embracing failure, educating hope: some arts activist educators' concerns in their wo

artWORK: Art, Labour and Activism represents an important contribution to emerging debates about contemporary socially engaged art produced in the wake of new forms of global protest and resistance over the past decade. It will do much to further advance this debate, especially through it’s close attention to the complex imbrication of art practice and social movements across a range of geo-political contexts, from Argentina to Spain to Egypt to the UK and beyond.