What Makes an Assembly? by Anne Davidian - ISBN: 9783956796456
Paperback
Assemblies: diverse forms, political struggles, reimagining democracy across time and space.

What Makes an Assembly?

Stories, Experiments, and Inquiries

  • Paperback

    408 pages

  • Release Date

    10 January 2023

Summary

A crossdisciplinary inquiry into the practices and forms of assembly making, through multiple times and geographies.

Assemblies are ancestral, transcultural ways of coming together as a community. Over the past decades, multiple social movements have reappropriated these forms of collective organisation as a prominent component of political struggle, to defend radical visions of democracy. At the same time, governments across the globe have sought to reframe public deliberation as a r…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9783956796456
ISBN-10:3956796454
Author:Anne Davidian, Laurent Jeanpierre
Publisher:Sternberg Press
Imprint:Sternberg Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:408
Release Date:10 January 2023
Weight:720g
Dimensions:227mm x 162mm x 30mm
About The Author

Anne Davidian

Anne Davidian is a curator and editor working at the intersections of arts and social sciences, with a particular interest in political imaginaries. In 2018, she conceived a research and experimentation project Assemblies- Modern Rituals for the Evens Foundation.

Laurent Jeanpierre is a sociologist and professor at the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne. Some of his work has focused on the worlds of the visual arts, in particular on artists, labor, and capitalism. His current research investigates the pathways to a post-capitalist society.

Returns

This item is eligible for free returns within 30 days of delivery. See our returns policy for further details.