Figurations Of Peripheries Through Arts And Visual Studies Peripheries In Parallax 1st Edition Maiju Loukola by Maiju Loukola, Mari Mäkiranta, Jonna Tolonen 9781003815617, 1003815618 instant download after payment.

This edited volume breaks new ground for understanding peripheries and peripherality by providing a multidisciplinary cross-exposure through a collection of chapters and visual essays by researchers and artists. The book is a collection of approaches from several disciplines where the spatial, conceptual, and theoretical hierarchies and biased assumptions of peripheries' are challenged. Chapters provide a diverse collection of viewpoints, analyses, and provocations on peripherality' through bringing together international specialists to discuss the socio-political, aesthetic, artistic, ethical, and legal implications of a peripheral approach.' The aim is to illuminate the existing, hidden, often incommensurable, and controversial margins in society at large from equal, ethical, and empathic perspectives. The book is designed to assist established researchers, academics, and students across disciplines who wish to incorporate novel, arts, and practice-based research and critical approaches in their research projects, artwork, and academic writing. Providing both a consolidated understanding of the peripheries, visual studies, and artistic research as they are and setting expansive and new research insights and practices, this book is essential reading for scholars of arts and humanities, visual culture, art history, design, philosophy, and cultural studies.