The Live Art of Sociology

This book attends to the importance of 'the live' in contemporary social and political life. With case study examples, Lambert successfully demonstrates the diverse ways in which art can provide the aesthetic and affective conditions for social and political disruption.

Cath Lambert is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick, UK.

Introduction: political aesthetics, cultural studies, queer and reparative theory and method Politics and praxis of live art Live sociology: generative and uncertain methodologies in action Fierce pedagogies: producing dissensual knowledges and subjects Bodies and embodied encounters in live practice The im/possibilities of live time Conclusions: towards a hopeful art