1st Edition
The Art of Global Power Artwork and Popular Cultures as World-Making Practices
Introduction
Artwork and popular cultures as world-making practices
Emily Merson
Part I – Artwork un/doing disciplinary boundaries
Chapter 1. The art of crossing-over
A. C. Imperial
Chapter 2. Reproducing 'popular' empire: production, consumption and bodily labour in ‘America the Gift Shop’
Armagan Teke Lloyd and Jessica Jurgutis
Chapter 3. Interracial picturesque: Lorraine O’Grady’s history of the Americas
Andil Gosine
Part II – The colonial self/other and decolonial popular cultures
Chapter 4. Pop goes the boycott
John Greyson
Chapter 5. Hybrid/fusion music and the cosmopolitan imaginary
Elena Chou
Chapter 6. Fashionably worn: Qaddafi’s radical dress and his shades
Anna M. Agathangelou
Part III – Creative methods as world politics
Chapter 7. Intersectional curating: the world, the street, the hand
Vicky Moufawad-Paul
Biography
Emily Merson is Assistant Professor in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Regina, Canada (1919-2020). Her research and teaching at the intersections of settler colonialism, Indigenous self-determination, and decolonizing global politics emphasizes the transformative power of artwork and popular cultures to unsettle international relations theories of power and popular imaginations of sovereignty. She is the author of a journal article published in Millennium: Journal of International Studies entitled "International Art World and Transnational Artwork: Creative Presence in Rebecca Belmore’s Fountain at the Venice Biennale" (2017), and a forthcoming book entitled Creative Presence: Settler Colonialism, Indigenous Self-Determination, and Decolonial Contemporary (2020).
