Figurations of Peripheries Through Arts and Visual Studies: Peripheries in Parallax

This edited volume breaks new ground for understanding peripheries and peripherality by providing a multidisciplinary cross-exposure through a collection of chapters and visual essays by researchers and artists.

The book is a collection of approaches from several disciplines where the spatial, conceptual, and theoretical hierarchies and biased assumptions of ’peripheries’ are challenged. Chapters provide a diverse collection of viewpoints, analyses, and provocations on ’peripherality’ through bringing together international specialists to discuss the socio-political, aesthetic, artistic, ethical, and legal implications of ’peripheral approach.’ The aim is to illuminate the existing, hidden, often incommensurable, and controversial margins in the society at large from equal, ethical, and empathic perspectives. The book is designed to assist established researchers, academics, and students across disciplines who wish to incorporate novel, arts and practice-based research and critical approaches in their research projects, artwork, and academic writing.

Providing both a consolidated understanding of the peripheries, visual studies, and artistic research as they are and setting expansive and new research insights and practices, this book is essential reading for scholars of arts and humanities, visual culture, art history, design, philosophy, and cultural studies.

Maiju Loukola is an artist-researcher and university lecturer at the Doctoral Programme in Fine Arts at the University of the Arts, Helsinki.

Mari Mäkiranta is a visual artist and associate professor at the University of Lapland, Faculty of Art and Design, and a docent at the University of Jyväskylä, Department of Music, Art and Culture Studies.

Jonna Tolonen is an artist and post-doctoral researcher at the University of Lapland, Faculty of Art and Design.