Building Bridges, Resisting Borders

Though the genealogy of state violence is not new, it is now occurring in an unprecedented era of technology; these actions — and more importantly, the public’s responses to them — are now able to be instantly documented and shared. Thousands of new ideas and opinions are shared every hour of every day through the digital realm. Among them we find poetry, music, paintings, and stories that both resist actions of state violence and celebrate the cultures that violence and policing are trying to suppress. The Building Bridges, Resisting Borders research cluster will center cross-disciplinary conversation and interpretation of art(s) that have surfaced in the face of state violence, discussing their interaction between modern and historic protest efforts.

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