Sociologists interested in U.S. foreign policy, the politics of atrocity, and political culture have much to learn from studying artistic responses to Abu Ghraib. This art poses provocative challenges to the dominant framing of Abu Ghraib and highlights the importance of culture as a realm of political activism.
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Jonathan Markovitz is in the communication department at California State University, San Marcos. He is the author of Legacies of Lynching: Racial Violence and Memory.
Culture Review
Art and Abu Ghraib
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[...] process. Many other good ones: Barbara Risman discusses why public policy needs social science; Jonathan Markovitz discusses art responding to Abu Ghraib; and there are many [...]
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