Political Aesthetics: Culture, Critique and the Everyday

This work seeks to highlight that an understanding of aesthetic practices is essential to the analysis of politics and political processes

Arundhati Virmani is an historian at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Centre Norbert Elias, Marseille. Her works deal with the social and political history of colonial and contemporary India, in particular the forms and mechanisms of social aggregation, symbols and rituals of national sentiment, places and objects of memory.