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Political Memory and the Aesthetics of Care - The Art of Complicity and Resistance (Hardcover)
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Political Memory and the Aesthetics of Care - The Art of Complicity and Resistance (Hardcover)
Series: Cultural Memory in the Present
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With this nuanced and interdisciplinary work, political theorist
Mihaela Mihai tackles several interrelated questions: How do
societies remember histories of systemic violence? Who is excluded
from such histories' cast of characters? And what are the political
costs of selective remembering in the present? Building on insights
from political theory, social epistemology, and feminist and
critical race theory, Mihai argues that a double erasure often
structures hegemonic narratives of complex violence: of widespread,
heterogeneous complicity and of "impure" resistances, not easily
subsumed to exceptionalist heroic models. In dialogue with care
ethicists and philosophers of art, she then suggests that such
narrative reductionism can be disrupted aesthetically through
practices of "mnemonic care," that is, through the hermeneutical
labor that critical artists deliver—thematically and
formally—within communities' space of meaning. Empirically, the
book examines both consecrated and marginalized artists who tackled
the memory of Vichy France, communist Romania, and apartheid South
Africa. Despite their specificities, these contexts present us with
an opportunity to analyze similar mnemonic dynamics and to
recognize the political impact of dissenting artistic production.
Crossing disciplinary boundaries, the book intervenes in debates
over collective responsibility, historical injustice, and the
aesthetics of violence within political theory, memory studies,
social epistemology, and transitional justice.
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