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A library help guide to Visual Arts resources at UVic Libraries.

Reference Titles

Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice by Gary Anderson (Editor); Kathryn G. Herr (Editor)
ISBN: 9781412918121
Publication Date: 2007-04-13
Encyclopedia of Community by Karen S. Christensen (Editor); David Levinson (Editor)
ISBN: 9780761925989
Publication Date: 2003-06-23
Encyclopedia of Social Networks by George A. Barnett (Editor)
ISBN: 9781412979115
Publication Date: 2011-09-07
The SAGE Handbook of Resistance by David Courpasson (Editor); Steven Vallas (Editor)
ISBN: 9781473906433
Publication Date: 2016-12-19

Books: Examples

Bridging Communities Through Socially Engaged Art by Alice Wexler (Editor); Vida Sabbaghi (Editor)
ISBN: 9781351175562
Publication Date: 2019-03-20
The Art of Civil Action: political space and cultural dissent by Andrew Barnett (Contribution by); Hakan Topal (Contribution by)
Call Number: NX180 P64A78 2017
ISBN: 9789492095398
Publication Date: 2018-05-22
Getting up for the People: the visual revolution of ASAR-OAXACA by Asaro ASARO (Illustrator); Mike Graham de La Rosa; Suzanne M. Schadl
Call Number: N6556 O2A73 2014
ISBN: 9781604869606
Publication Date: 2014-05-01
Feminist Visual Activism and the Body by Basia Sliwinska (Editor)
ISBN: 9780429298615
Publication Date: 2020-12-30
Disobedient Objects by Catherine Flood; Gavin Grindon
Call Number: N7429.3 D57 2014
ISBN: 9781851777976
Publication Date: 2014-10-07
Art and Activism in the Age of Systemic Crisis by Eliza Steinbock (Editor); Bram Ieven (Editor); Marijke de Valck (Editor)
ISBN: 9781000195439
Publication Date: 2020-10-07
Envisioning Social Justice in Contemporary German Culture by Jill E. Twark (Editor); Axel Hildebrandt (Editor)
Call Number: PT405 E59 2015
ISBN: 9781571135698
Publication Date: 2015-05-15
The Art of Direct Action: social sculpture and beyond by Karen Van Den Berg (Editor); Cara Jordan (Editor); Philipp Kleinmichel (Editor)
Call Number: NX180 S6A78 2019
ISBN: 9783956794858
Publication Date: 2019-12-03
Finding Voice: A Visual Arts Approach to Engaging Social Change by Kim Shelley Berman
ISBN: 9780472053667
Publication Date: 2017-12-22
Wages Against Artwork: decommodified labor and the claims of socially engaged art by Leigh Claire La Berge
ISBN: 9781478004233
Publication Date: 2019-08-23
Multidisciplinarity: projects for social change in art and culture by Luísa Santos
ISBN: 9781472483133
Publication Date: 2018-06-26
Ai Weiwei by Susanne Gaensheimer (Editor); Doris Krystof (Editor); Falk Wolf (Editor)
Call Number: N7349 A5A4 2019
ISBN: 9783791359069
Publication Date: 2019-09-10
100 Days of Active Resistance by Vivienne Westwood (Artist)
Call Number: N72 S6W37 2011
ISBN: 9788862081887
Publication Date: 2011-10-31

Online Resources

ART, Activism and Politics: A Canadian Commentary

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