Reclaiming Public Space to fight Alienation and Extremism Through Art and Culture

Larbi Touaf

Article Details

Reclaiming Public Space to fight Alienation and Extremism Through Art and Culture

Authors:

Larbi Touaf

Publisher:

'Identity and Difference' Research Group

Journal:

Ikhtilaf Journal of Critical Humanities and Social Studies Vol.1 Issue 2, pp.0-0

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

1/2024

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

2001842948

pISSN:

2509-1743

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Abstract:

 This article discusses how artistic and cultural activism in the context of social alienation can open avenues of creativity and artistic expression to the young generation that is easily attracted to diverse forms of violence and extremism. Stressing Civil society’s efforts at claiming the public space for countering extremism through art and culture, the objective is to demonstrate how the fight against extremism is hinged on rehabilitating the sense of community that is shattered in our excessively consumerist realities. This enterprise underscores the importance of taste or aesthetic sensibility which as Emanuel Kant taught us is often coupled with a tendency to sociability. Kant’s idea of the “sensus communis” understood not as common sense but as communal sense is based on the assumption that sharing artistic sensibility is a major instrument for the transmission of aesthetic values as every person is supposed to have a certain degree of aesthetic sense. Based on this, the article studies the work of two examples of the transition from political activism during the Arab Spring to cultural/artistic activism, in other words from political action that creates divisions to artistic and cultural action that brings people together. More specifically it is an attempt to study how the initiators and leaders of the 20th of February movement in Morocco (a group of young men and women with no political affiliation) worked to integrate young people from different backgrounds through art and culture.

Article Details

Reclaiming Public Space to fight Alienation and Extremism Through Art and Culture

Authors:

Larbi Touaf

Publisher:

'Identity and Difference' Research Group

Journal:

Ikhtilaf Journal of Critical Humanities and Social Studies Vol.1 Issue 2, pp.0-0

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

1/2024

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

2001842948

pISSN:

2509-1743

Morocco

post-Arab Spring

public space

extremism

cultural/artistic activism

Issues

Article Details

Reclaiming Public Space to fight Alienation and Extremism Through Art and Culture

Authors: Larbi Touaf

Publisher: 'Identity and Difference' Research Group

Journal: Ikhtilaf Journal of Critical Humanities and Social Studies Vol.1 Issue 2, pp.0-0

Document Type: Article

Publication Date: 1/2024

Document Language: English

Document ID (Org No.): 2001842948

pISSN: 2509-1743

Morocco

post-Arab Spring

public space

extremism

cultural/artistic activism

Issues

Authors:

Larbi Touaf

Publisher:

'Identity and Difference' Research Group

Journal:

Ikhtilaf Journal of Critical Humanities and Social Studies Vol.1 Issue 2, pp.0-0

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

1/2024

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

2001842948

pISSN:

2509-1743