1st Edition

Agonistic Articulations in the 'Creative' City On New Actors and Activism in Berlin’s Cultural Politics

By Friederike Landau Copyright 2019
232 Pages
by Routledge

232 Pages
by Routledge

232 Pages
by Routledge

This book offers an empirically-grounded account of the emergence and political activities of a new collective actor in Berlin’s art field. Investigating the organizational and representative practices of Koalition der Freien Szene (Coalition of the Independent Scene) – a trans-disciplinary action platform assembling a wide variety of cultural producers in Berlin – the author unpacks the... Read more

1. Introduction: (Cultural) Politics in a Supposedly Post-Political Age



2. Mapping a Conflictual Cultural Landscape



3. Articulation of an Agonistic Actor



4. Bridge: How to Institutionalize Agonistic Agency?



5. (Re)Negotiating Steering and Rowing in Governance



6. Distillate and Outlook



Appendix: List of Conducted Interviews

Biography

Friederike Landau is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Bauhaus University Weimar, and Associate Fellow at the Center for Metropolitan Studies in Berlin, Germany. Her research interests revolve around new forms of political agency and activism, urban cultural politics, collaborative governance as well as post-foundational political theory. She teaches undergraduate-, graduate- and Ph.D.-level courses in urban sociology, urban planning and arts and design.