New publication on aesthetic international political economy: ”Escaping a migrant metropolis”

Image (c) Anna Tereshkina

A new article with POSTCAPE contribution has been published in City. The article seeks to offer a methodologically innovative contribution to current debates on aesthetic political economy, cities and borders as well as artistic and activist interventions in global cities.

The article “Escaping a migrant metropolis” by Olga Jitlina, Anni Kangas, Elisa Pascucci, Daria Krivonos and Anna Tereshkina narrates the politics of escape from borders and labour discipline in a post-Soviet migrant metropolis drawing on the art-activism project Nasreddin in Russia. It explores the relation between control and autonomy in urban migrations through a trans-aesthetics: a set of visual and verbal stories weaving together experiences and outcomes of the art project with academic debates on late capitalist urbanization. It can be accessed open access through this link.