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Activism is a critical point of contention for institutions and genealogies of contemporary art around the world. Yet artists have consistently engaged in activist discourse, lending their skills to social movements, and regularly participating in civil and social rights campaigns while also boycotting cultural institutions and exerting significant pressure on them. This timely volume, edited by Tom Snow and Afonso Ramos, addresses an extraordinary moment in debates over the institutional frameworks and networks of art including large-scale direct actions, as well as a radical rethinking of art venues and urban spaces according to racial, class, or gender-based disparities, including demonstrations against the extractive and exploitative practices of neoliberal accumulation and climate catastrophe. From ACT UP and its affiliate groups since the dawn of the AIDS crisis to the counter-spectacle and street theatrics of the so-called Arab Spring and Occupy, to ongoing protest movements such as Black Lives Matter, Rhodes Must Fall, and Decolonize This Place, activist aesthetics has proven increasingly difficult to define under traditional classifications. Resurgent campaigns for decolonial reckoning, ecological justice, gender equality, indigenous rights and antiracist pedagogies indicate that the role of activism in contemporary art practice urges a critical reassessment. One pressing question is whether contemporary art's most radical politics now takes place outside, against, or in spite of, conventional sites of display such as museums, biennials, and galleries

In this work, brand activism is defined as a strategy that seeks to influence citizen-consumers by means of campaigns created and sustained by political values. It involves a transformation in corporate communication management and social responsibility practices, which borrows from those of social movements to contribute to the social production of identity of citizen-consumers. This corporate political shift involves the use of messages, slogans and content based on final (of common interest) or instrumental (linked to the industry in which they are applied) political values. Political behaviour does not operate in a vacuum but is the response to a change in values of the young generations employing digital technologies and demanding a different behaviour from global firms. However, these political advertising practices have been heavily criticised in the field of political economy, insofar as it is contended that they are impostures lacking authenticity. Thus, 45 campaigns were analysed to determine the characteristics of brand activism in this new socio-political context. From the results it follows that this activist practice, of Anglo-Saxon origin, is a relevant trend in political communication because it aligns individual identity, the management of public assets and corporate action in the political sphere.

"While Colin Kaepernick's 2016 protests reignited the debate surrounding athletes and political activism, the relationship between the two is a longstanding tradition. The athletic field has long been a site for protests against racism, hosting key events in the fight for equality, such as legendary African American baseball player Jackie Robinson's 1947 induction into the MLB. Recent protests have expanded to issues like sexism, LGBT rights, and immigration, and have made use of social media and other modern developments. This volume examines the controversies surrounding athlete activism as well as its place in history and contemporary politics"--

Introduction -- The Jordanian regime -- Becoming an activist -- The student experience -- Activism, a way of life -- Repression and dissidence -- Professional activism as an alternative -- New forms of mobilization -- Disillusioned Islamists -- Conclusion.

Posterity has arrived: the necessary emergence of museum activism / Robert R. Janes and Richard Sandell -- Detoxing and decolonising museums / Sara Wajid and Rachael Minott -- Growing an activist museum professional / Elizabeth Wood and Sarah Cole -- Dividing issues and mission-driven activism: museum responses to migration policies and the refugee crisis / Maria Vlachou -- Access as activism: bringing the museum to the people / Catherine Kudlick and Edward M. Luby -- Fossil fuel sponsorship and the contested museum: agency, accountability and arts activism / Paula Serafini and Chris Garrard -- The activist role of museum staff / Victoria Hollows -- From the ground up: grassroots social justice activism in American museums / Laura-Edythe S. Coleman and Porchia Moore -- Spectacular defiance / Julie McNamara -- "I'm gonna do something": moving beyond talk in the museum / Bernadette Lynch -- Feminism and the politics of friendship in the activist museum / Viv Golding -- Memory exercises: activism, symbolic reparation, and non-repetition in Colombia's National Museum of Memory / Cristina Lleras, Michael Andrés Forero Parra, Lina Díaz and Jennifer Carter -- Auto agents: inclusive curatorship and its political potential / Jade French -- Museums as public forums for 21st century societies: a perspective from the national museums and monuments of Zimbabwe / Njabulo Chipangura and Happinos Marufu -- Museums in the climate emergency / Steve Lyons and Kai Bosworth -- Activism, objects and dialogues: re-engaging African collections at the Royal Ontario Museum / Silvia Forni, Julie Crooks and Dominique Fontaine -- Museological activism and cultural citizenship: collecting the Hong Kong umbrella movement / Selina Ho and Vivian Ting -- Museums in the age of intolerance / Sharon Heal -- Activist practice through networks: a case study in museum connections / Mercy McCann -- Whose memories for which future? Favela museums and the struggle for social justice in Brazil / Marcelo Lages Murta -- From vision to action: the journey towards activism at St. Fagans National Museum of History / Sioned Hughes and Elen Phillips -- Active museums: inside out / Moya McFadzean, Liza Dale-Hallett, Tatiana Mauri and Kimberley Moulton -- Quiet is the new loud? : on activism, museums and changing the world / Åshild Andrea Brekke -- Heritage and queer activism / Sean Curran -- The activist spectrum in United States museums / Dina A. Bailey -- Up against it: contending with power asymmetries in museum work / Kevin Coffee -- Taking a position: challenging the anti-authorial turn in art curating / Lynn Wray -- Memory activism and the holocaust memorial institutions of the 21st century / Diana I. Popescu -- Advocacy and activism: a framework for sustainability science in museums / Sandra L. Rodegher and Stacey Vicario Freeman -- Narratives of transformation: stories of impact from activist museums / Jennifer Bergevin -- Memorial museums at the intersection of politics, exhibition and trauma: the study of the Red Terror Martyrs Memorial Museum / Bridget Conley -- "I attack this work of art deliberately": suffragette activism in the museum / Nicola Gauld -- Museums, activism and social media (or, how Twitter challenges and changes museum practice) / Jennie Carvill Schellenbacher -- Unprecedented times? shifting press perceptions on museums and activism / Jenny Kidd.

Title Page -- Contents -- About Love Activism -- The Scope and Shape of Love Activism -- Examining Our Lives -- Who Are You!? -- Expanding Our Definition of Love -- Let's Not Miss Out on All the Love -- Love in Action and Protest -- The Eight Beautiful Elements of Love Activism -- Service -- Work -- Presence in Service -- Vulnerability and Authenticity in Service -- Serving Animals and the Earth -- Empathy -- Presence in Empathy -- Empathy as Inclusive -- Empathy for Animals -- Caring for Yourself While Practicing Empathy -- Hope -- Cultivating Hope -- Gardening -- The Importance of Anchors -- Non-Violence -- Forms of Violence -- Veganism -- Your Activist Kitchen (And Home!) -- Self-Care -- Body Love -- Imposter Phenomenon -- Peaceful Viewing -- Creativity -- Roadblocks to Creativity -- Letting Go of Expertise and Perfection/Embracing DIY Ethics -- Craftivism -- Zines -- Supporting Others -- Feminism -- Understanding Feminism -- Male Violence -- The Importance of Intersectionality -- Ecofeminism -- Mindfulness -- Eating -- Celebrating Everyday Magic -- Cultivating Silence or Quiet -- Deep Listening -- Living Portraits: Interviews With Activists -- Elise Bernal, Artist and Art Educator -- Allister Chang, Libraries Without Borders -- Dawn Finley, Feminist Library on Wheels -- Renee Folzenlogen, Art Therapist/Family Support Counselor -- Joel Garcia, Self Help Graphics -- Nicole Landers, Community Healing Gardens -- Cliff Mayotte, Voice of Witness -- Carolyn Merino Mullin, The Animal Museum -- Lauren Ornelas, Food Empowerment Project -- Kim Sherobbi, Birwood House/James and Grace Lee Boggs Centerto Nurture Community Leadership -- Love Activism Practices -- Recommended Reading and Listening for Love Activists -- Questions for Self-Reflection and Reading Groups -- With Gratitude -- About the Author -- Index.

In this accessible introduction to communication activism, organizer Karen Jeffreys and sociologist Charlotte Ryan draw on more than two decades of ongoing collaboration, using the Rhode Island Coalition for the Homeless (RICH) as a case study. The book examines a community with shared values, decision-making, and conflict resolution procedures, tracking its organizing strategy and matched communication plan. The authors first describe a communication campaign during the welfare reform battles (1990-1995) in which they began to practice communication activism. In ongoing work with two organizations over the next two decades, they distil a model of communication activismthat draws directly from vibrant traditions of empowerment communication in U.S. social movements and movements from the Global South. Beyond Prime Time Activism provides students and researchers with an invaluable look at contemporary activism practices and with practical tools tried and tested in two decades of social movement engagement. This book is ideal for anyone participating in social change movements or studying howtheynavigate communication and media inequalities

This article analyzes the interaction between the digital (online) and physical (offline) activism of Front Harsien ODZ, a Maltese environmental movement organization. It looks into how Front activists perceive these forms of activism and verifies how important each form is to the organization. Consequently, the research presented herein is operationalized through interviews with Front activists and through participant observation from an insider's point of view. This article concludes that activists within Front Harsien ODZ feel that they are part of a social network. The organization's recruitment, mobilization and activism techniques are at once digital and physical. Most Front activists were already part of preexisting social networks before joining the Front, and the new Front network made good use of Malta's political opportunity structures, including the Zonqor controversy; Malta's small size; and the country's vibrant media landscape. ; peer-reviewed