Global Politics of Artistic Engagement

Pénélope Larzillière, Ph.D. (EHESS) is Research Professor at the Ceped (Université Paris Cité and IRD). She works on political and moral sociology. Her more recent books include Activism in Jordan (Bloomsbury, 2016) and the co-edited journal issue "Justice, Injustice and Political Emotions" (Critique internationale, 91(2) 2021).

• List of IllustrationsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: Repertoires of Engagement in MotionPénélope LarzillièrePart 1: Moving Repertoires of Engagement1 Creating a Syrian Culture in Exile: The Reconfigurations of EngagementFranck Mermier2 The “Metamorphoses of the Political” in the Contemporary Art of Palestinian Post-Oslo GenerationMarion Slitine3 Transnationalizing the Repertoires of Action: A Comparative View of African Rappers’ Engagements in MotionAlice Aterianus-Owanga4 Digital Artivism in Movement: The 2019 Lebanese Uprising’s Art on InstagramRayane al-RammalPart 2: Artistic Visibilities and Political Circulations, in Diaspora5 Presence and International Journeys of Engaged West Saharan SingersSébastien Boulay6 Young Documentary Theatre on Syrian Stages: An Aesthetic of Circulation, Exile, and EngagementSimon Dubois7 Anatolian Musicians in Europe: Creation, Political Engagement, TransformationPinar SelekPart 3: Contest and Critique, in a Globalizing World8 Palestinian Art Talk: A Local Lexicon for Global Art ProductionKirsten Scheid9 Fictions of the Contemporary: The Shifting Spaces of the Marrakech BiennaleSarah Dornhof10 Focus on the Bahraini Art Scene: Centralization Processes and Social EngagementShyam Iskander11 Embodying Absence: Remembering Mexico’s Missing Persons through ArtSabrina MelenotteIndex