Figurations of Peripheries Through Arts and Visual Studies

<p>This edited volume breaks new ground for understanding peripheries and peripherality by providing a multidisciplinary cross-exposure through a collection of chapters and visual essays by researchers and artists.</p><p>The book is a collection of approaches from several disciplines where the spatial conceptual and theoretical hierarchies and biased assumptions of ‘peripheries’ are challenged. Chapters provide a diverse collection of viewpoints analyses and provocations on ‘peripherality’ through bringing together international specialists to discuss the socio-political aesthetic artistic ethical and legal implications of ‘peripheral approach.’ The aim is to illuminate the existing hidden often incommensurable and controversial margins in the society at large from equal ethical and empathic perspectives. The book is designed to assist established researchers academics and students across disciplines who wish to incorporate novel arts and practice-based research and critical approaches in their research projects artwork and academic writing.</p><p>Providing both a consolidated understanding of the peripheries visual studies and artistic research as they are and setting expansive and new research insights and practices this book is essential reading for scholars of arts and humanities visual culture art history design philosophy and cultural studies.</p>