ISBN:
9781526133113
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 246 pages)
,
illustrations
,
24 cm
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als The power of vulnerability
DDC:
303.3
Keywords:
Vulnerability (Personality trait) Social aspects
;
Affect (Psychology) Social aspects
;
Power (Social sciences)
;
Women in mass media
;
Sexual minorities in mass media
;
Minorities in mass media
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Medien
;
Social Media
;
Verwundbarkeit
Abstract:
The power of vulnerability interrogates the new language of vulnerability that has emerged in feminist, queer and anti-racist debates about the production, use and meanings of media. The book investigates the historical legacies and contemporary forms and effects of this language. In today’s media culture, traumatic first-person or group narratives have popular currency, mobilising affect from compassion to rage to gain cultural visibility and political advantage. In this context, vulnerability becomes a kind of capital, a resource or an asset that can and has been appropriated for various groups and purposes in public discourses, activism as well as cultural institutions. Thus, politics of representation translates into politics of affect, and the question about whose vulnerability counts as socially and culturally legible and acknowledged. The contributors of the book examine how vulnerability has become a battleground; how affect and vulnerability have turned into a politicised language for not only addressing but also obscuring asymmetries of power; and how media activism and state policies address so-called vulnerable groups. While the contributors investigate the political potential as well as the constraints of vulnerability for feminist, queer and antiracist criticism, they also focus on the forms of agency and participation vulnerability can offer.
Abstract:
Vulnerability as a political language -- Part I. Vulnerability as a battleground -- Negotiating vulnerability in the trigger warning debates -- Trigger happy: from content warning to censorship -- Feminist hurt/feminism hurts -- Part II. Vulnerability and visibility -- Little pink: white fragility and black social death -- Visibility and vulnerability: translatina world-making in The salt mines and Wildness -- White vulnerability and the politics of reproduction in Top of the lake: China girl -- Spectacularly wounded: white male vulnerability as heterosexual fantasy -- Part III. Vulnerability and cultural policy -- The invulnerable body of colour: the failure and success of a Swedish film diversity initiative -- Naming, shaming, framing? The ambivalence of queer visibility in audio-visual archives -- Abortion prevention: lesbian citizenship and filmmaking in Sweden in the 1970s -- The caring nation: Don't ever wipe tears without gloves as a reparative fantasy
Abstract:
In popular campaigns such as #metoo and #timesup, questions of power and agency are increasingly discussed as issues of injusry 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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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