Her choice for the front cover of Forbearance as Redistribution is a photograph of a squatter settlement that the artist, Dionisio González, has edited to include modern architectural features, challenging our expectations about what these informal communities do, can, or should look like. In describing the piece, Holland says that “art, perhaps more than political science, inspires people to see differently” (xii). This may be true of much of academia. However, Holland herself certainly cannot be accused of pursuing a narrow or unimportant research question. Much like the photograph, she gives her readers a new mental model for how the political world works for the urban
Her choice for the front cover of Forbearance as Redistribution is a photograph of a squatter settlement that the artist, Dionisio González, has edited to include modern architectural features, challenging our expectations about what these informal communities do, can, or should look like. In describing the piece, Holland says that “art, perhaps more than political science, inspires people to see differently” (xii). This may be true of much of academia. However, Holland herself certainly cannot be accused of pursuing a narrow or unimportant research question. Much like the photograph, she gives her readers a new mental model for how the political world works for the urban