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Ashtar, Editor. (2005), A Blazing Stage: A one-time publication to commemorate Ashtar’s Tenth Anniversary.

Billing, Johanna, Editor. (2007), Taking the Matter into Common Hands, London: Black Dog Publishing.

Choudry, Aziz; Hanley, Jill; Jordan, Steve; Shragge, Eric; Stiegman, Martha. (2009), Fight Back: Workplace Justice for Immigrants, Halifax and Winnipeg: Fernwood Publishing.

Cooper, Afua. (2006), The Hanging of Angélique: The Untold Story of Canadian Slavery and the Burning of Old Montreal, Toronto: Harper Perennial.

Davis Y. Angela. (2005), Abolition Democracy: Beyond Empire, Prisons, and Torture, New York: Seven Stories Press Edition.

Davis Y. Angela. (2003), Are Prisons Obsolete?, New York: Seven Stories Press Edition.

Herivel, Tara; Wright Paul, Editors. (2007), Prison Profiters: Who Makes Money From Mass Incarceration, New York: The New Press.

Jaccoud, Mylène (sous la direction de). (2009), Régulations sociopénales et peuples autochtones, Vol. 42 (2), Revue Criminologie, Montréal : Les Presses de l’Université de Montréal.

Les Filles électriques et Passages. (2010), Les Passagères : Voix de changement, Montréal: Planète rebelle.

McLean, Cheryl; Kelly, Robert, Editors. (2010), Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice: Inquiries for Hope & Change, Calgary: Detselig Enterprises Ltd.

Naidus Beverly. (2009), Arts for Change: Teaching Outside the Frame, Oakland: New Village Press.

Nawrocki, Norman. (2007), Breakfast for Anarchists, Montreal: No Bar Code Press.

Nawrocki, Norman. (2009), Lunch for Insurgents, Montreal: Les Pages Noires.

Nawrocki, Norman. (2009), Dinner for Dissidents, Montreal: Les Pages Noires.

Niskala, Brenda. Artist and Community Collaboration: A Toolkit for Community Projects, Regina: Common Weal Community Arts.

Selman, Jason ‘Blackbird’. (2007), The Freedom I Stole, Montréal: Cumulus Press.

Simonin, Nicolas (sous la direction de). (2008), Livraison no. 9 : Revue d’art contemporain, Montréal : Édipresse.

The Invisible Commitee. (2007), The Coming Insurrection, Los Angeles: Semiotext(e).

Van Erven, Eugène; Van Den Hurk, Peter, Editors. (2008), International Community Arts Festival 2008: Report on a Festival about Quality in Community Arts, Rotterdam: Rotterdams Wijktheater.

Viau, Roland. (2003), Ceux de Nigger Rock : Enquête sur un cas d’esclavage des Noirs dans le Québec ancien, Outremont (Qué) : Libre Expression.

Whitaker, Chico. (2006), Changer le monde: (nouveau) mode d’emploi, Paris: Les Éditions de l’Atelier / Éditions Ouvrières.

Wright, Stephen. (2007), XV Biennale de Paris du 1er octobre 2006 au 30 septembre 2008, Paris : Éditions Biennale de Paris.

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Reena Almoneda-Chang (Document à l’appui pour une demande de financement pour le Centre des Femmes de Montréal) - VHS

Soirée tranquille. (1999), Un court-métrage de Anne-Elizabeth Côté. - VHS

Inkingi 2′Ubuntu - VHS

A Call to Witness - VHS

Opération salami : Les profits ou la vie ? (1999) - Un documentaire de Malcolm Guy, Magnus Isacsson et Anna Paskal. 53 minutes - Productions Multi-monde - Distribution Cinéma Libre. -VHS-

RCCGP (Document à l’appui du rapport final). (2003)- 14 minutes.-VHS-

La pharmacie de l’espoir. Un film de François Gourd - Production Sympholium. -VHS-

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Boyer, Jean Pierre; Desjardins, David; Widgington, David. (2007) Pour changer le monde : 659 affiches des mouvements sociaux au Québec de 1966 à 2007, Montréal : Lux Éditeur.

Comarck, Elizabeth; Balfour, Gillian. (2004), The Power to Criminalize: Violence, Inequality and the Law, Halifax: Fernwood Publishing.

Comarck, Elizabeth; Balfour, Gillian. (2006), Criminalizing Women, Halifax: Fernwood Publishing.

Herivel, Tara; Wright, Paul. (2007), Prison Profiteers: Who Makes Money From Mass Incarceration, New York: The New Press.

Lerman, Liz; Borstel, John. (2003), Critical Response Process: A method for getting useful feedback on anything you make, from dance to dessert. Takoma Park: Liz Lerman Dance Exchange.

Maidment, MaDonna. (2009), When Justice Is a Game: Unravelling Wrongful Convictions in Canada, Halifax and Winnipeg : Fernwood Publishing.

Silver, Jim. (2008), In Their Own Voices: Building Urban Aboriginal Communities, Halifax: Fernwood Publishing.

Wallis, Maria A.; Kwok, Siu-ming. (2008), Daily Struggles: The Deepening Racialization And Feminization Of Poverty In Canada, Toronto: Canadian Scholars’ Press Inc.

Bales, Kevin. (2004), Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy. Berkeley: University of California Press. First published in 1999.

Bales, Kevin. (2005), Understanding Global Slavery: A Reader. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Bales, Kevin. (2007), Ending Slavery: How We Free Today’s Slaves. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Bales, Kevin & Cornell, Becky. (2008), Slavery Today. Toronto : Groundwood Books & House of Anansi Press.

Bales, Kevin & Soodalter, Ron. (2009), The Slave Next Door: Human Trafficking and Slavery in America Today. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Batstone, David. (2007), Not For $ale: The Return of the Global Slave Trade - and How We Can Fight It. New York: HarperCollins.

Klein, Naomi. (2008), La stratégie du choc: La montée d’un capitalisme du désastre. Translated by Lori Saint-Martin and Paul Gagné. Original title: The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. Montréal: Leméac Éditeur.

Mackey, Frank. (2010), Done with Slavery: The Black Fact in Montreal. Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press.

Malarek, Victor. (2003), The Natashas: The New Global Sex Trade. Toronto: Penguin Group.

Skinner, E. Benjamin. (2009), A Crime So Monstrous: Face-to-Face with Modern-Day Slavery. New York: Free Press.

Williams, Dorothy W. (1998), Les noirs à Montréal, 1628-1986 : Essai de démographie urbaine. Translated by Pierre DesRuisseaux. Original title: Blacks in Montreal, 1628-1986: An Urban Demography. Montréal : VLB Éditeur.

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Beveridge, Karl; Johnston, Jude. (1999), Making Our Mark : Labour Arts and Heritage in Ontario, Toronto: Between the lines.

Holloway, John. (2007), Changer le monde sans prendre pouvoir (Le sens de la révolution aujourd’hui), Montréal: LUX Éditeur

Patel, Raj. (2007), Stuffed and Starved: Markets, Power and the Hidden Battle for the World’s Food System, Toronto: HarperCollins Publishers.

Polak, Paul. (2008), Out of Poverty: What Works when Traditional Approaches Fail, San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers.

Prokosch, Mike; Raymond, Laura. (2002), The Global Activist’s Manual: Local Ways to Change the World, New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press / Nation Books

Ringer, Judy. (2006), Unlikely Teachers (Finding the hidden gifts in daily conflict), Portsmouth: OnePoint Press.

Welton, Neva; Wolf, Linda. (2001), Global Uprising: Confronting the Tyrannies of the 21st Century, Gabriola Island: New Society Publishers.

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Vander Gucht, Daniel. (2004), Art et politique : Pour une redéfinition de l’art engagé. Bruxelles : Éditions Labor.

Viveret, Patrick. (2008), Reconsidérer la richesse. Clamency (France): Éditions de l’Aube.

Gervais, Stephan, Karmis, Dimitrios et Lamoureux, Diane. (2008), Du tricoté serré au métissé serré ? La culture publique commune au Québec en débats. Québec: Les presses de l’Université de Laval.

Jordan, Tim. (2003), S’engager ! Les nouveaux militants, activistes, agitateurs… Paris : Éditions Autrement.

Rosenberg, Marshall B. (2005), Les mots sont des fenêtres (ou des murs). St-Julien-en-Genevois (France) : Éditions Jouvence

Dupuis-Déri, Francis. (2008), Québec en mouvements. Montréal : Lux Éditeur.

Chomsky, Noam. (2008), Comprendre le pouvoir. Montréal : Lux Éditeur.

Breton, Gaétan. (2005), Faire payer les pauvres. Montréal : Lux Éditeur.

Baillargeon, Normand et Piotte, Jean-Marc. (2007), Au bout de l’impasse à gauche. Montréal : Lux Éditeur.

Shragge, Eric. (2006), Action communautaire : dérives et possibles. Montréal : Les Éditions Écosociété.

Freitag, Michel. (2008), L’impasse de la globalisation : une histoire sociologique et philosophique du capitalisme. Montréal : Les Éditions Écosociété.

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Cleveland, William. (2008). Art and Upheaval: Artists on the World’s Frontlines. Oakland: New Village Press.

Portnoy, Alisse. (2005). Their Right to Speak: Women’s Activism in the Indian and Slave Debates. Cambridge & London: Harvard University Press.

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Frieling, Rudolf; Groys, Boris; Atkins, Robert; and Manovich, Lev. (2008), The Art of Participation: 1950 to Now, San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Gérin, Annie and McLean, James, S. (2009), Public Art in Canada: Critical Perspectives, Toronto, Buffalo, London: University of Toronto Press.

Groys, Boris. (2008), Art Power, Cambridge and London: The MIT Press.

Lamoureux, Ève. (2009), Art et politique: Nouvelles formes d’engagement artistique au Québec, Montréal: Écosociété.

Purves, Ted, Editor. (2005), What We Want is Free: Generosity and Exchange in Recent Art , Albany: State University of New York Press.

Stimson, Blake and Sholette, Gregory, Editors. (2007), Collectivism After Modernism: The Art of Social Imagination after 1945, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

The Invisible Committee. (2009), The Coming Insurrection, Los Angeles: Semiotext(e). Originally published as L’insurrection qui vient by Editions La Fabrique, Paris, 2007.

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Block, Peter. (2009), Community: The Structure of Belonging, San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc.

Borrup, Tom with Partners for Livable Communities. (2006), The Creative Community Builder’s Handbook: How to Transform Communities Using Local Assets, Arts, and Culture , Saint Paul: Fieldstone Alliance Publishing Center.

Goldbard, Arlene. (2006), New Creative Community: The Art of Cultural Development, Oakland: New Village Press.

Greer, Betsy. (2008), Knitting for Good! A Guide to Creating Personal, Social, and Political Change, Stitch by Stitch, Boston & London: Trumpeter Books.

Ochoa, María. (2003), Creative Collectives: Chicana Painters Working in Community, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press.

Raunig, Gerald. (2007), Art and Revolution: Transversal Activism in the Long Twentieth Century, (translated by Aileen Derieg), Los Angeles: Semiotext(e).

The Book

What has happened to commitment in visual art? The mutations it has undergone since the mythical 1970s would have us believe that it has disappeared. For Ève Lamoureux, committed art has never gone away; it resists another manner, another power, lives on other grounds. Exit the division between art for art and art and the service of an idea. Exit the concept of militant cutting edge committed art. Current commitment goes by a multiform, micropolitical action, a creation caring of others, at once autonomous and collective, that puts emphasis on process and participation. In this way, the author shows us in which way art brings a new definition to political engagement.

This essay analyzes the work of contemporary Quebecois artists such as ATSA, BGL, Doyon/Demers, Danyèle Alain, Sylvie Cotton, Nicole Jolicoeur, Devora Neumark, Alain-Martin Richard, Jean-Claude St-Hilaire and Raphaëlle de Groot. In going on with respect to the theoretical plan, this book situates itself in the recent history of art and shines a light on its political dimension.

The Author

Ève Lamoureux has been interested in the relationship between art and politics for several years. Her doctoral thesis on current committed art - reorganized here - won her the first prize of the Charles-Bonenfant Foundation of the National Assembly in Quebec. A Montrealer, she teaches at the University of Laval at Quebec and is working on a post-doctorate degree at the Université libre of Brussels.

Source: Elodie Comtois, Communications Agent, Éditions Écosociété