Urban Interventions: Art, Politics and Pedagogy
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Author
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David Pinder
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Title
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Urban Interventions: Art, Politics and Pedagogy
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Subject
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Education
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Place
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Participatory
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Art
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Date Created
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2008
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Bibliographic Citation
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Pinder, David. “Urban Interventions: Art, Politics and Pedagogy.” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 32, no. 3 (2008): 730–36. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2427.2008.00810.x.
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Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2427.2008.00810.x.
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Resource Type
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Journal Article
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Summary
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Challenging perspectives on the urban question have arisen in recent years from beyond
academic realms through the work of artists and cultural practitioners. Often in dialogue
with urban theory and political activism, and employing a range of tactical practices,
they have engaged critically with cities and with the spatialities of everyday urban life.
They are typically concerned less with representing political issues than with intervening
in urban spaces so as to question, refunction and contest prevailing norms and
ideologies, and to create new meanings, experiences, understandings, relationships and
situations. Such interventionist practices may rarely be seen as part of the traditional
purview of urban studies. Yet in asserting their significance here, this essay argues that
growing dialogues across and between urban and spatial theory, and artistic and
cultural practice, have considerable potential for inspiring and developing critical
approaches to cities. The essay highlights a number of specific challenges thrown up by
such interconnections that are of political and pedagogical significance and in need of
further debate.
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