Aesthetic Communities, Peripheral Identities and Social Movements

Authors

  • Marcos Giadas University Paris Ouest Nanterre

Keywords:

Peripheral identities, Galicia, nationalism, Bravú, political community, aesthetic mediation

Abstract

After centuries of symbolic and political oppression, Galicia has been recognized by the Spanish constitution as a historic nationality. However, despite a certain degree of political autonomy, Galician identity is threatened by increasing homogenization in the economic, social, cultural and linguistic fields. In the early 1990s the aesthetic movement Bravú constructed an aesthetic community, sustained by an ideological project, and with the aim to, on the one hand, prevent Galician culture from becoming folklore stuck in a time warp and, on the other hand, to validate Galician identity. The Bravú artists refused the historically inherited outsider position and contributed to a reinvention of Galician identity and of a political ideal within a cosmopolitan, internationalist framework and by reversing social stigmas through their works and performances.

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Published

19-10-2010

How to Cite

Giadas, M. (2010). Aesthetic Communities, Peripheral Identities and Social Movements. Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy, 6(2), 130–147. Retrieved from http://cosmosandhistory.org/index.php/journal/article/view/212

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Section

Resistance in Cultural Praxis