The Routledge Companion to Art and Activism in the Twenty-First Century brings together a wide range of geographical, cultural, historical, and conceptual perspectives in a single volume of new essays that facilitate a deeper understanding of the field of art activism as it stands today and as it looks towards the future.

Lesley Shipley is Associate Professor of Art History at Randolph College.

Mey-Yen Moriuchi is Associate Professor of Art History at La Salle University.

Section I: Public Space and Protest

Introduction

1. A Collectography of PAD/D, a 1980s Activist Art Collective, and its Legacy in 21st-Century Activist Art and Scholarship

Gregory Sholette

2. Aesthetics of Reciprocity: Socially Engaged Art in China and Hong Kong

Mai Corlin Frederiksen

3. Guided Horizontality in Art Resistance Platforms in Hungary Since 2010

Izabel Galliera

4. Instructions Within: Art as Liberation Praxis in the Arab World

Maymanah Farhat

5. Shattering Glass Ceiling: Art and Activism in Thailand since 2020

Thanavi Chotpradit

6. 1 to 1: Media and Public Mourning through Temporary Tactical Memorials

Daniel Tucker

Section II: Gender and Visual Sovereignty

Introduction

7. Reel/Real Resurgence: Pasifika Women Filmmakers and Media Activism

Jennifer L. Gauthier

8. The Visual Politics of Queerness on the Navajo Nation

Louise Siddons

9. Zeke Peña: Illustrating Chicanx Environmental Justice Histories in the Rio Grande Watershed

Jennifer Garcia Peacock

10. Reproductive Justice and Visual Activism

Tamar Carroll

11. Be Otherwise, 13 Acts of Resistance

Anonda Bell

Section III: Racial and Restorative Justice

Introduction

12. Historical Memory in Contemporary African American Activist Photography

Mary Trent

13. A Series of Transitions: an interview with members of What Would an HIV Doula Do?

Andy Campbell

14. Abolition Art: Contemporary Imaginings against the Carceral State

Rebecca Zorach

15. let them tell it: Black southern women's retrospection within the works of Remember2019

Arielle Julia Brown

16. La Vivienda Es La Cura: Latinx Art, Politics, and Housing Justice in East Boston

Anthony Romero

17. Atomized Solidarity and New Shapes of Resistance: Visual Activism in South Africa after Apartheid

Kylie Thomas

Section IV: Community Care and Advocacy

Introduction

18. With a Camera and a Tape Recorder: Through Positive Eyes, the AIDS Pandemic, and the Politics of Identification

David Gere

19. For Foul-Mouthed Activists: Disobedience as Care Work in African Social Practice Art

Nomusa Makhubu

20. Activating Vulnerability: On Artivism in Colombia's Precarious Peace Process

Ana María Reyes

21. A View from the Future: Activist Artists, Writers, and Filmmakers Turn to Science Fiction to Address the Climate Crisis

Lisa E. Bloom

22. Amplifying Our Voices Through Public Art

Michelle Angela Ortiz

23. What's it all About, Alfie?

Zoë Charlton and Tim Doud