Citation:
Kaddar, Merav et al. 2020. “Artistic City-zenship: How artists perceive and practice political agency in their cities.”. Journal of Urban Affairs: 1. https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=145617861&authtype=shib&site=eds-live&scope=site&custid=s5122861&authtype=shib.
Abstract:
Located in the theoretical triangle of urban, cultural, and political studies, this paper examines artists’ political engagement in cities. Applying a qualitative approach through inter-urban fieldwork in Hamburg and Hanover, Germany, and Jerusalem and Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel, we study how artists critically engage with their cities and urban spaces, and analyze how the artists’ themselves perceive and practice their own actions. Based on this, we offer a typology of artists’ attitudes and behavior patterns toward urban politics and policies, which we propose as a relevant theoretical tool for analyzing political engagement of artists in the urban environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]