The Aesthetics of Protest on Kyiv's Maidan: Reflections on Political Emergence and the Twenty-First-Century Crowd

Stefan Jonsson
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Abstract:This essay argues that aesthetic works offer an understanding of the performativity of democratic protests and crowd action. It analyzes a handful of artworks from the Ukrainian Revolution of 2013–2014. The article demonstrates how aesthetic works express what may be termed political emergence: people who have no say in political institutions come together to change the political order. Aesthetic works enable an understanding of political emergence that is mostly unavailable to the social sciences, history, and journalism. The article contends that analysis of crowd action and twenty-first-century collective protest in particular would gain from theoretical and methodological efforts to conjoin social research and aesthetic analysis.
基辅独立广场抗议的美学:对政治涌现与21世纪人群的反思
摘要:本文认为,审美作品提供了对民主抗议和群体行动的表演的理解。它分析了2013-2014年乌克兰革命中的一些艺术品。这篇文章展示了美学作品如何表达所谓的政治涌现:在政治制度中没有发言权的人聚集在一起改变政治秩序。美学作品使我们能够理解社会科学、历史和新闻学大都无法理解的政治出现。本文认为,对人群行动的分析,特别是对21世纪集体抗议的分析,将受益于将社会研究与美学分析结合起来的理论和方法上的努力。
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