The Thinking of Dissensus: Politics and Aesthetics

Rancière, Jacques

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“…Aesthetic(s) is something much wider in scope: ‘it is about what we are able to see and hear and what we are unable to see and hear’ (Kompridis, 2014: xviii). This approach is very much inspired by Jacques Rancière (2011) who understands aesthetics as ‘the distribution of the sensible’. To him, aesthetics refers to the ‘order of the sensible’, which is about the ‘specific distribution of space and time, of the visible and the invisible, that creates specific forms of “commonsense”, regardless of the specific message such-and-such an act intends’ (Rancière, 2011: 141).…”

Section: Towards New Attachments To the Earth: An Aesthetic Perspectivementioning

confidence: 99%

“…This approach is very much inspired by Jacques Rancière (2011) who understands aesthetics as ‘the distribution of the sensible’. To him, aesthetics refers to the ‘order of the sensible’, which is about the ‘specific distribution of space and time, of the visible and the invisible, that creates specific forms of “commonsense”, regardless of the specific message such-and-such an act intends’ (Rancière, 2011: 141). Hence, in this view, politics, as well as education and arts, are aesthetic because they relate to (the questioning of) the order of ‘what makes sense’ and to the power relations that constitute this order.…”

Section: Towards New Attachments To the Earth: An Aesthetic Perspectivementioning

confidence: 99%

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Young sustainability activists as public educators: An aesthetic approach

Wildemeersch

Læssøe

Håkansson

2021

European Educational Research Journal

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In recent years we have seen increasing youth activism on climate and other sustainability issues. This paper presents a theoretical framework for further research on young sustainability activists as public educators. The point of departure is taken in Latour’s argumentation concerning the need to create new attachments to the Earth. In line with this, we highlight the importance of aesthetics and experiences conceived as integrated sense-perceptional, emotional and intellectual faculties. The second part of the paper moves into social movement theory, to explore what role the Youth for Sustainability movement may have in creating new attachments to the Earth. Drawing on Melucci, emphasis is put on the movement’s collective identity making. Furthermore, following Rancière, the ability to interrupt the distribution of the senses is stressed. Examples of youth activism for sustainability are presented and interpreted, which points to the potential of children and young people to act successfully. The last part of the paper moves into pedagogical theories to explore how this kind of youth activism fostering new attachments to the Earth can be conceived as public pedagogy. We thereby refer to Biesta’s distinction between pedagogy for the public, pedagogy of the public and pedagogy for publicness.

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Section: Towards New Attachments To the Earth: An Aesthetic Perspectivementioning

confidence: 99%

Young sustainability activists as public educators: An aesthetic approach

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Læssøe

Håkansson

2021

European Educational Research Journal

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“…In our appropriation of democracy, we need to set aside what has been commonly (mis)understood about it: ‘democracy is neither a form of government nor a form of social life. Democracy is the institution of politics as such, of politics as a paradox’ (Rancière, 2010: 50). Why a paradox?…”

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Dissensual Leadership: Rethinking democratic leadership with Jacques Rancière

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The democratic leadership literature emphasises those leadership practices that involve dialogue and communication within the frame of reference of existing organizational structures, discourses and hierarchies. Our contribution is to problematise this approach to democracy from the perspective of the work of Jacques Rancière, which highlights the importance of dissensus, that is to say a breaking away from organizational structures and hierarchies. We argue that this allows us to conceptualise collective leadership in a postfoundational way that connects a critique of individual and organization-bound leadership to a democratic logic, in particular through Rancière’s analysis of the myth of the murder of the shepherd. This also enables us to study radically disruptive, non-hierarchical and pre-dialogic dimensions of leadership that may destruct as well as construct. Two democratic leadership practices are outlined: contingent acts of leadership and the practice of radical contestation. Our argument is that both practices of democratic leadership can be deployed as radical ruptures and disruptions of organizational orders, beyond dialogue.

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“…The last 2 decades have seen growing interest among geographers in how visuality shapes the geopolitical world. As influentially discussed by Rancière (2004, 2010), aesthetic regimes and practices have ambiguous entanglements with politics, some reproducing entrenched forms of inclusion and exclusion while others offer critical counter‐modes of perception that may challenge the status quo for more equal orders. Geographers have explored the relationship between politics and aesthetics by studying the limits and possibilities of art for critically “reflecting, contesting and reframing ‘the new normal’” (Gregory, 2010; Ingram, 2011, p. 221), further enriching parallel inquiries into how visual objects, technologies and practices shape geopolitical actions, subjectivities and formations (Macdonald et al., 2010).…”

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The aesthetic turn in border studies: Visual geographies of power, contestation and subversion

Moze

Spiegel

2022

Geography Compass

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In recent years, critical border studies have developed sophisticated concepts and methodologies for exploring the multifaceted spatialities, sociologies and temporalities of contemporary borders. In this article, we consider how the “aesthetic turn” that has gained prominence in the scholarship can further inform thinking in border studies. Specifically, we focus on the role of the visual in the construction as well as subversion of borders, suggesting possible avenues for future critical aesthetics‐engaged research on COVID‐19 era border reconfigurations. To do so, we first briefly outline the theoretical evolution of border studies, paying attention to recent conceptualisations of borders as dynamic processes of social and spatial differentiation. We then build on the borderscapes concept to unpack research on border aesthetics, with particular attention to the heterogeneous roles played by visual objects such as maps, photographs and videos in shaping both hegemonic and counter‐hegemonic processes of bordering. Finally, we bring these contributions into discussion with recent insights on the COVID‐19 pandemic, sketching several ways to advance aesthetic concepts and methodologies in academic research on borderscapes that are emerging with, and will likely outlast, the pandemic. We suggest that border studies and affiliated sub‐fields can gain useful insights from attending more explicitly and robustly to dynamic visual geographies of power, contestation and subversion.

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The Thinking of Dissensus: Politics and Aesthetics

Cited by 442 publications

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Young sustainability activists as public educators: An aesthetic approach

Young sustainability activists as public educators: An aesthetic approach

Dissensual Leadership: Rethinking democratic leadership with Jacques Rancière

The aesthetic turn in border studies: Visual geographies of power, contestation and subversion

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