ERC Starting Grant · 2025
Icons in Crisis: Exploring Global Iconoclastic Politics in the 21st Century
This research project addresses iconoclasm (the deliberate destruction of images and visual signs) as a transhistorical and transversal cultural phenomenon, carried out by individuals, grass-root movements, or institutions of power across the globe. Whereas previous research established structural similarities between instances of religious and political iconoclasm of the past, this project intends to provide a socio-anthropological analysis of the contemporaneous dimension of iconoclasm, as a form of political expression in modern liberal democracies. Why do acts of iconoclasm continue to be socially and politically meaningful for many actors in different contexts? Perceiving the…
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