The Roundabout Revolutions

by Eyal Weizman, with Blake Fisher and Samaneh Moafi

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Author(s)

Eyal Weizman

Editor(s)

Nikolaus Hirsch, Markus Miessen

Publication, year

Berlin : Sternberg Press, 2015

Scope

108 Pages, illustrated, 15 cm.

ISBN

9783956790980

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One common feature of the wave of recent revolutions and revolts around the world is not political but rather architectural: many erupted on inner-city roundabouts. In thinking about the relation between protest and urban form, Eyal Weizman starts with the May 1980 uprising in Gwangju, South Korea, the first of the “roundabout revolutions,” and traces its lineage to the Arab Spring and its hellish aftermath. Project research wit h

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Location

Cabinet 31 - 6: Kunst en engagement

Remarks

Incl. Bibliographical References