This book is a collection of essays developed from the meetings of the 'Poetics of Resistance'
network in Leeds (2008) and Santiago de Compostela (2009). The volume contains contributions
from an international group of researchers and cultural producers who are committed to the
activation promotion and analysis of counter-hegemonic practices both in the development and
transmission of knowledge and in the emancipatory tools of cultural production. The essays in
the collection are written by scholars activists and artists from around the world and concern
subjects as diverse as poetry film philosophy literary theory plastic arts and television.
The relationship between cultural production and resistance lies at the heart of the book's
concerns. Creativity and its manifestations in art cultural production and knowledge
production are a vital resource for a type of resistance that draws upon the resolve and
contribution of the individual to the same degree that it emphasizes the importance of
collective reflection and action. The interaction between artistic production emancipation and
resistance therefore cannot be reduced to a commitment to particular ideologies as expressed in
art or writing. Rather the poetics of resistance and emancipation are produced through the
negotiation of the subjective and the collective of reflection and action and of cultural
practices and ideologies. The volume contains contributions in English and in Spanish.
