Jones, Gareth A. (2011) Slumming about: aesthetics, art and politics. City, 15 (6). pp. 696-706. ISSN 1360-4813
Abstract
Slums are categorised as having a deficit of infrastructure, income and adherence to norms and a surfeit of dirt, disease, violence and other pathologies. Slums are spaces of stigma, regardless of improvements to material or social conditions. This paper is concerned with how stigmatic representations of slums might be tackled. The paper considers how urbanists might understand the relationship between slums and aesthetics. Identifying different aesthetic registers, the paper argues that art projects can contest how aesthetics are constructed and how stigma may be challenged.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/ccit20 |
| Additional Information: | © 2011 Taylor & Francis |
| Library of Congress subject classification: | H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) J Political Science > JA Political science (General) N Fine Arts > NX Arts in general |
| Sets: | Departments > Geography and Environment |
| Date Deposited: | 09 Sep 2011 12:41 |
| URL: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/38190/ |
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