Political aesthetics culture, critique and the everyday

Includes bibliograpical references and index.

Introduction / Arundhati Virmani -- Narrating the Nation : Murals and Tapestry in the Indian and South African Parliaments / Shirin Rai and Rachel Johnson -- The Aesthetics of Sacrifice in Indian Political Culture / Arundhati Virmani -- The Politics of Aesthetics: Mussolini and Fascist Italy / Simonetta Falasca Zamponi -- The Aesthetic Politics of the Techno Movement in France 1990-2010 / Jean Christophe Sevin -- Aesthetics as Critique : A Photographic Inquiry into the Mafia / Franco Zecchin -- Beyond the Politics of Representation : Tribal Art in postcolonial India / Rashmi Varma -- Aesthetics of the Suburban Fabric : Marseilles on Foot / Hendrik Sturm-- Perfecting Political Performance : Spinning, Gandhi and Virtuosity / Rebecca M. Brown -- Pedestrian Crossings : Some Reflections on the Occasion of a Contemporary Judicial Spectacle / Les Moran -- Ordinary/Extraordinary : Art, Politics, History / Maria Tamboukou -- Some Sociological Afterthoughts : Continuous vision and rationalizations of cultural forms, secular rituals and Aesthetics / Emmanuel Pedler.