TY - JOUR

T1 - Artistic City-zenship

T2 - How artists perceive and practice political agency in their cities

AU - Kaddar, Merav

AU - Kirchberg, Volker

AU - Barak, Nir

AU - Seidl, Milena

AU - Wedler, Patricia

AU - de Shalit, Avner

N1 - This research has been funded by the Lower Saxonian Ministry of Science and Culture, in coordination with the Volkswagen Foundation (Niedersächsisches Vorab: Lower Saxonian - Israeli Research Cooperation, grant code VWZN3166). We thank the many interviewees for sharing their time and thoughts with us. We also thank the journal’s editors and reviewers for their helpful remarks and suggestions. Special thanks go to Marie Hoop for her help and support. This joint research project was financially supported by the state of Lower-Saxony, Hanover, Germany; the selection process was organized by the Volkswagen Foundation. Part of the research was financed with the help of the Max Kampelman Chair for Democracy and Human Rights. Publisher Copyright: © 2020 Urban Affairs Association.

PY - 2022/5/28

Y1 - 2022/5/28

N2 - 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.

AB - 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.

KW - Cultural Distribution/Cultural Organization

KW - artistic field

KW - Culture and Space

KW - urban sociology

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UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/0c6b52a4-c61e-36cc-812c-b9c79604e1c2/

U2 - 10.1080/07352166.2020.1792312

DO - 10.1080/07352166.2020.1792312

M3 - Journal articles

AN - SCOPUS:85090467592

VL - 44

SP - 471

EP - 489

JO - Journal of Urban Affairs

JF - Journal of Urban Affairs

SN - 0735-2166

IS - 4-5

ER -