Selejan, IL;
(2021)
Vandalism as Symbolic Reparation.
The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology
, 39
(2)
pp. 19-38.
10.3167/cja.2021.390203.
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Abstract
The 2018 anti-government protests in Nicaragua generated a vast amount of photographic imagery, video documentation, and visual graphics. On the street and via social media, everyday citizens engaged with this material, activating a multisensory environment. The production of visual content was nonetheless accompanied by iconoclastic gestures; vandalism became a means of reclaiming Nicaragua’s revolutionary past and its symbols, while deploying them towards the making of a yet to be imagined political future. Drawing on examples from Chile and Mexico, the article argues that acts of vandalism may be understood as symbolically reparative. The materiality of the protests, manifested through image, trace, gesture, and sound (slogans, chants, noise) becomes a means towards analysing, ethnographically, revolutionary imaginaries caught within the flux of an unsettled present.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Vandalism as Symbolic Reparation |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.3167/cja.2021.390203 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.3167/cja.2021.390203 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This work is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) |
| Keywords: | Iconography, Nicaragua, photography, protest, revolution, vandalism |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of Anthropology |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10135259 |
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