The power of vulnerability: Mobilising affect in feminist, queer and anti-racist media cultures - Hardcover

9781526133090: The power of vulnerability: Mobilising affect in feminist, queer and anti-racist media cultures

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ISBN 10: 1526133091 ISBN 13: 9781526133090

Verlag: Manchester University Press, 2019

This collection presents a critical and historicising investigation of contemporary debates on affect, power and agency in queer, feminist and antiracist media cultures. Through a range of in-depth case studies, the book explores the potential as well as the constraints of vulnerability as a new political language.

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Anu Koivunen is Professor of Cinema Studies (Department of Media Studies) at Stockholm University, Sweden Katariina Kyr�l� is Lecturer in Gender Studies at �bo Akademi University, Finland Ingrid Ryberg is Senior Lecturer in Gender Studies at Gothenburg University, Sweden

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In popular campaigns such as #MeToo and #TimesUp, questions of power and agency are increasingly discussed as issues of injury or empowerment. Vulnerability has emerged as a key concept in these discussions and their academic analyses.

This book investigates the historical legacies and contemporary forms and effects of the language of vulnerability. In today’s media culture, traumatic first-person or group narratives have popular currency, mobilising affect, from compassion to rage, in order to gain visibility and political advantage. Vulnerability is seen as a kind of capital; not only as victimhood but also as a resource that can be adopted for various purposes. Contributors to the book, including Jack Halberstam and Sara Ahmed, examine how affect and vulnerability not only reveal but also obscure asymmetries of power, how media activism and state policies address so-called vulnerable groups, and how we determine whose vulnerability counts as socially and culturally legible.

Providing keen insights into the political potential as well as the constraints of vulnerability for feminist, queer and anti-racist criticism, the book will be of interest to scholars and students in media and cultural studies, affect theory, gender studies, queer theory and critical race studies.

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In popular campaigns such as #MeToo and #TimesUp, questions of power and agency are increasingly discussed as issues of injury or empowerment. Vulnerability has emerged as a key concept in these discussions and their academic analyses.This book investigates the historical legacies and contemporary forms and effects of the language of vulnerability. In today s media culture, traumatic first-person or group narratives have popular currency, mobilising affect, from compassion to rage, in order to gain visibility and political advantage. Vulnerability is seen as a kind of capital; not only as victimhood but also as a resource that can be adopted for various purposes. Contributors to the book, including Jack Halberstam and Sara Ahmed, examine how affect and vulnerability not only reveal but also obscure asymmetries of power, how media activism and state policies address so-called vulnerable groups, and how we determine whose vulnerability counts as socially and culturally legible.Providing keen insights into the political potential as well as the constraints of vulnerability for feminist, queer and anti-racist criticism, the book will be of interest to scholars and students in media and cultural studies, affect theory, gender studies, queer theory and critical race studies.

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Verlag: Manchester University Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN 10: 1526133091
ISBN 13: 9781526133090
Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten: 264
Herausgeber: Koivunen Anu, Kyr�l� Katariina, Ryberg Ingrid
Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verf�gbar
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