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Understanding photography is more than a matter of assessing photographs, writes Ariella Azoulay. The photograph is merely one event in a sequence that constitutes photography and which always involves an actual or potential spectator in the relationship between the photographer and the individual portrayed. The shift in focus from product to practice, outlined in Civil Imagination, brings to light the way images can both reinforce and resist the oppressive reality foisted upon the people depicted. Through photography, Civil Imagination seeks out relations of partnership, solidarity, and sharing that come into being at the expense of sovereign powers that threaten to destroy them. Azoulay argues that the "civil" must be distinguished from the "political" as the interest that citizens have in themselves, in others, in their shared forms of coexistence, as well as in the world they create and transform. Azoulay's book sketches out a new horizon of civil living for citizens as well as subjects denied citizenship-inevitable partners in a reality they are invited to imagine anew and to reconstruct. Beautifully produced with many illustrations, Civil Imagination is a provocative argument for photography as a civic practice capable of reclaiming civil power.
"Giving Ground" is prompted by two phenomena whose paradoxical
convergence is currently altering our experience and conception of
urban relations and city planning. On the one hand, forces of
globalisation push towards conditions of homogenisation and
deterritorialisation, while, on the other, a surging politics of
identity barricades various groups behind particular claims and
ignites violent persecutions. The covert relation between these
phenomena, wherby territory/ground is both disavowed or abstracted
"and" jealously reclaimed, is the focus of the essays in this
volume, at the heart of these investigations are the notions of
propinquity and neighbourliness whose redefinitions and
redeployments serve widely divergent ends: from the fortification
of the 'new urbanist' fantasy about the possibility of re-creating
small towns, to the validation of the exclusionary tactics of
'sanitization' that guide zoning decisions, to assisting in the
reimagination of an ethical and reasonable urbanism. Directed
against the contracting limits of tolerance, this volume attempts
to reinvent the troubled notion of the 'right to the city'.
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